This week I failed to fullfil my plan. First half of the week went OK, but then I got discouraged with my schedule. I played many games, though (mainly classical and rapid, but also some blitz). This was my first failure, so maybe it’s a good time to summarise all my efforts and progress since […]

I have more chess-unrelated stuff to do lately, so I can’t expand my chess training routine this week. However, when I started this diary, I intended to make each week better than the previous one. If I can’t increase the quantity, I should improve the quality – at least slightly. My plan for the 4th […]

I managed to stick to my plan during the whole week, albeit the quality of my training decreased due to amount of my chess unrelated duties. I was often too tired to play a quality game or do tactics carefully enough. Tactics Every day I was solving tactics for at least one hour. I liked […]

My plan for the third week of 2019 is the same as last week’s. I’m going to do tactics for one hour every day, study a chess book (currently it’s Jeremy Silman’s The Amateur’s Mind) for one hour every day, and play at least one long (30+0) game every day (and do a post-game analysis). […]

I managed to stick to my plan during the whole week. Tactics Every day I was solving tactics for at least one hour. Previously, I used to do only standard mode medium tactics on Chesstempo. This week I decided not to limit myself anymore – partly because of it getting boring, and partly because my […]

In the second week of 2019, my plan is to introduce studying chess books. My plan for every day during the whole week is the following: one hour of solving tactics, one hour of studying a chess book, one game of chess (at least 30+0 or its equivalent with increment) along with post-game analysis.