chess training program

Lately... I've been doing 30 hours a week in study time along with 600 tactics per week.... with 6 master games studied per week... was wondering is this kind of training any good... is there a better way to train... are there any websites that can help you design a chess program for yourself? Also just curious... how do the strong players make there training programs???? Thanks

I heard that teaching players who are worse than you reinforces the knowledge  *nudge nudge*

Awesome training program by the way! 

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Very impressive.  Any reason you're not taking advantage of the ChessMentor on site?  You're obviously already a very good player but I bet some of the advanced courses could make you better.  Since you're already studying master games, may I suggest that Silman's Roots of Positional Understanding might be useful?  Pretty tough course with many problems taken from master games.  GM Shankland has some killer "over 2000" courses as well.  

Downlaod the TWIC and flick through about 50 games a day quickly (but not too quickly). It is very useful to have these patterns in your brain for quick reference during your games. Also, if you want more bang for your buck, you can play some memory games to improve your retention of these master games. 

Obviously, you should continue doing the tactics and learn more positional chess by reading some annotated master games and other books (like the one baddogno recommeded).

Cheers, and good luck!

chessmn16 what do you mean by memory games.... do you mean as once I've studied the game... the next day replay the game over to see if I remember it???? and what is TWIC... where can I find that????

baddogno... I've done some chess mentor on and off but your right... I should put that into my program as well... thanks for the book as well... do you know anybody workbooks... I kind of fell in love with these kind's of books... very helpful... oh yeah where can I find these shankland courses....

thanks everybody for commenting... very pleased to see to taking interest

Not a book, a 300 lesson course on ChessMentor:

http://www.chess.com/chessmentor/view_course?id=22

Here is one of Shankland's courses:

http://www.chess.com/chessmentor/view_course?id=319

thank you... will be starting on these first thing in the morning... cant believe i was missing out on these

     TWIC  is This Week In Chess; Its a web site. The only wookbook I know of is Silman's Reassess Your Chess. Your already on the right path thow.

No, it's not necessary to 100% recall the games - your subconscious will just pick up the patterns and your thought processes in your own games will become easier. I have only started doing this quick master game thing a few days ago, but it's very well known in the literature that chess is all about memorizing patterns! 

By memory games, I mean games on the Internet that ask you to recall digits or numbers and thus improve your memory. I use Dual-N-Back, and I definitely feel much more at ease in my chess games now because I can clearly and easily remember the theory I learned. 

thank you....

I have a serious training program and I've been meaning to post on it.  I'm staying on Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual until Crouch's How to Defend in Chess comes in the mail since I'm a bit overdue for middlegame themes at this point and was saving Dvoretsky until after Secrets of Pawn Endings and Survival Guide to Rook Endings (both are on their way). 

Where do you do your tactics problems at? Here on Chess.com you have only ever done 600ish problem since june. I work my tactics at chesstempo.com.

jdcannon... I do my tactics here... about 50 a day give or take... then on chesstempo... and tactics books I have... like improve your chess tactics and forcing chess moves....

I heard dvoretsky's endgame manual is pretty good..... I dont plan on studying endgame until I finish my other books first

So everybody on here seems to have a pretty impressive rating and I was wondering how to improve quickly from my level (around 1300 in all categories). I learned how to play chess about 4 months ago, did a bunch of tactics on an iphone app, learned the main lines of the Ruy Lopez, sicilian dragon and sicilian Njadorf and took to chess.com from there. I assumed just from playing I'd get better but it seems that thats not necessarily true. 

I ordered starting out:the sicilian, Forcing chess moves, Dvortetsky's endgame, Modern chess openings, Zurich 1953 chess tournament and bobby fischer teaches chess, which arrived last week, but do not know which to start with, how to make a study plan, or how to even study. What a good study plan for someone looking to improve from 1300 to 1800 within a year or so, is it feasible if I put in the time? and how?  

The good news is DEM isn't as hard as its reputation though it is in some places.  It shouldn't even be your first or even third endgame book, or even fifth counting books on strategic endgames and a book dedicated to queen endings (like Averbakh's Comprehensive Chess Endings Volume 3 with queen vs. queen, queen vs. rook, and queen vs. minors).  I say DEM shouldn't be your third because you should read a book dedicated to pawn endings and another to rook endings before touching it. 

"I assumed just from playing I'd get better but it seems that thats not necessarily true. "

That's one of the biggest mistakes one could make.  To get better one needs study.  At your level Chirnov's Logical Chess Move by Move and tactical drills should help.  One and two move mates and easy to spot material gains are the bunny slope of chess.  If nothing else you'll at least get your feet wet in calculation since your opponent is also looking for their best move you'll only actually win the material or force mate if your opponent is careless. Advanced Defense is a good program for drilling carelessness out of your own play with 400 exercises for avoiding checkmate. 

Carelessness is the defining characteristic of players under 1400 so yeah, tactics. 

Thanks so much for the reply! I'll make those orders now. If I spend 2 hrs a day for a year or so do you think I ahve a chance or reaching 1800 in a year? Also, how should I use those hours most efficiently? An hour for endgame ans an hour for tactics, or spend a sole day on openings and another of the week on tactics etc.

In case you haven't found Coach Heisman't site yet here's a link to 10 years of monthly columns from one of the better (and more expensive) coaches in America. 

http://danheisman.home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Articles/Novice_Nook_Links.htm