Hi, I'm interested in hearing the community's thoughts regarding practice routines.
I'm trying to build a 2 hour daily practice routine 5 days a week. I have some books and stuff prepared.
Whats your practice routine like? Any suggestions for improvement optimization?
Not bad, it depends very much on your age and what you are going to do. For example, I study/practice more for quite a long time.
i suggest watching saint louis lectures
You need to find a balance between playing and study/practice.
You cannot learn to drive a car or fly a plane from a book or video.
Bullet and blitz do not count as practice.
Playing rapid or classical as if it were bullet does not count either.
Example where you lose with more time on your clock than you started with:
You'll be wasting a lot of time, but if chess is something you're incredibly passionate about then go ahead
At your level you should spend most if not all your study time on tactics. It really does make a big difference. If you're serious about improving stop playing blitz and especially bullet. Play the longest time control you can make time for plus an increment. Like tpr says, don't blitz out your moves. Use your clock.
I think that the main thing to consider is consistency. First you should start doing a session for as much time as you can while being consistent. If you think you can spend 2 hours for a long period of time no matter what, then it wil be helpful. What should not happen is that today you spend 2 hours training and then tomorrow you feel tired or you really dont want to train, that's why maybe it's better to do 1 hour per day rather than 7 hours a day (for instance). The time depends on your availability, the ones I said are just examples. It's scientifically proven that it's way more important to be consistent at a task rather than spending long times at it.
Apart from that, I would suggest you playing a lot and doing tactics training. Just based on your rating here. If you can play longer time controls it will be more beneficial. It's better to spend most time of that 2 hours playing long games where you can think rather than reading books and studying stuff you'll never get to put into practice. If you can't, well then at least playing as much as you can even if they are fast time controls
It could be 15 minutes tactics training, one endgame position, one 15+15 game with analysis. Get a little bit better in that played opening and learn from blunders and mistakes. When there is time maybe review some games from books.
play-eat- sleep ----repeat.
I would definitely watch Chess Network’s videos and streams. I learned a lot just from watching how he handles positions, even if they may be blitz or bullet. His analysis videos are also great and I suggest making studies on your games and the games of grandmasters. That’s what I’ve started doing and it has helped.
