Chess Training

In my quest for chess improvement, I have stumbled upon Markgravitygood’s excellent chess improvement blog. I recommend that you checkout his post on the generic training schedule, which is based on an article by chess trainer GM Irina Mikhailova on chessOk.

Mark’s post is exactly what I was looking for when I wrote my post on ‘My Chess Education’. I was so impressed by this training schedule, that I am going adopt it as part of my chess study routine.

Since I only have at most 2 hours per day to dedicate to chess, here is my adaptation of the schedule. If I cannot complete the daily curriculum,any topic not covered will be tackled on the next day:

Day 1

• Study openings (1hr)
• Solve tactics (30m)
• Solve strategy (30m)

Day 2

• Solve endings (1h)
• Play (30m ) either 1 G/15 or 2 G/6
• Solve tactics (30m)

Day 3

• Study strategy (30m)
• Solve strategy (30m)
• Play (30m) either 1 G/15 or 2 G/6
• Solve tactics (30m)

Day 4

• Study openings (1h)
• Solve endings (30m)
• Solve tactics (30m)