I started to play chess on january 2006 by joining the local chess club. Today, one year and three months later, my (provisional) belgian rating is 1396. I try to study chess each day , but I think I'm not doing it the right way. There's so much to learn (tactics, opening, endgame, positional play, study master games, ...) but so little time (I'm married and have a little son, so 1 hour of study time a day is all i've got !)... .
I've been reading the knights errant blogs for a while now, and I decided to give their study approach a try. So this is my plan :
- Study lots and lots and lots of tactics each day. I don't think I will do the circles in the true sense of the word (250, 500 or 1000 problems a day will not be possible with 1 hour of study time a day), but I will try to solve a lot of tactical problems repetitively.
- Building a tactical (gambit?) opening repertoire.
- blogging about my chess study (and improvement ;-))
4 comments:
Welcome! Glad to have you. :) I'll be adding you to my sidebar and my bloglines feeds as soon as I publish this comment.
BTW (in reference to your comment about not being able to get through 250, 500, or 1,000 problems in a 1 hour study time slot,) you might be surprised. Once you've been through the problems many times, you can really fly. For example, I can go through the 720 problems in Module-1 of Personal Chess Trainer in about 45 minutes (which calculates out to 3-4 seconds per problem.) Modules 2 or 3 each only take about an hour (also 720 problems each.)
Anyway, good luck with your training program. I look forward to hearing about your progress.
Ron
@Ron : It's true, I can solve problems faster when I've solved them before. On the other hand, I'm afraid I will end up 'memorizing' the problems. I'm not sure this will make me a better chess player... .
Actually, that's partly the point. You WANT to memorize the problems to the extent that you recognize them on sight and know the solution immediately. That way, when you run into a similar position in a game, you will recognize it and be able to check and see if the same "solution" works in that particular position.
Hello. I really like your problem posts and discussion, good stuff.
Good Luck!
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