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)
