Best Way to Utilize Chess.com's Resources to improve

Hey Everyone!

I'm new, very terrible, just signed up for diamond, and I'd really love to improve. I'm now realizing there seems to be an embarrassment of riches on this site with respect to resources (so many videos, tutorials, advanced puzzles) I'm a bit overwhelmed.

Does anyone have tips about how to use the tools on this site to improve daily? How do I approach what this site has to offer? 

For reference, daily I'm trying to do several things. (i) spend 30-40min doing just "puzzles" (including the daily); (ii) work through an entire "lesson unit"; and (iii) trying to play two 30-minute games a day.

Don't do Lessons, Puzzles etc. Just play.

1. Watch the video on opening principles 

2. Do a dozen or two rated puzzles everyday 

3. Do a few survival rush the odd days 

4. play a lot of 15/10 games. Make sure your outgoing challenge settings are plus and minus 100. 

Have fun.

They used to be some study guide pages for different ratings somewhere on this site.

If they have a diamond membership, then why wouldn't they utilize the lessons and puzzles they are paying for? Anything which helps...helps!

Nice problem to have  

It can be easy to get overwhelmed at first, but everyone handles it differently in their own way. Some things work for some people and other things work for others. At least for myself, most of what I use on diamond membership is game analysis (from the chess.com games I play and also to analyze my OTB games) and Puzzle Rush/Puzzles sometimes. 

I admit that my personal life schedule is a bit busier than it used to be (but in a good way), so I don't always keep up with things like puzzles daily, but for the first several years of my "chess journey" I would do my daily chess training habitually and I know that it helped a lot

There isn't really a right or wrong if you are learning; it is all chess at the end of the day. You may experiment a bit to see which things you learn best with or more efficiently, but as long as you are improving over time, then you really can't go too wrong

Hi Shoe,

That's just great and that's a good way to improve.
I suggest doing different time controls to learn to accelerate your brain. And top the day's learning off with just one 30 minute game - so there's no plan B and you give it your all.

Keep in mind, the big secret of the great chess players is that they live for checkmate - it takes up the place in their mind where dreams are fulfilled. You have to want it enough before you are able to get it.

Puzzles are also great and you can't do enough of them. Pay attention to each puzzle's metadata as in the rating and themes applied - so you learn which areas you need to focus on. Together with chessable this site is all you need for a complete curriculum.

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