How much time to devote to studying each part of chess at 1600?

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AkshathK118

Hi, I'm a 13 year old chess player who is currently 1600 in rapid and 1400 in blitz. How much time should I spend approximately on solving puzzles, studying openings and endgames, and playing actual games?

Moonwarrior_1

Depends at how much you want to improve and what your schedule looks like because chill comes before chess. That being said maybe do 15 mins of puzzles a game or 2 (15|10) then study for 15-30 mins for now. What I do is somedays ill do puzzles some days ill do end games somedays ill watch videos so I don’t have a set schedule. 

AkshathK118
Moonwarrior_1 wrote:

Depends at how much you want to improve and what your schedule looks like because chill comes before chess. That being said maybe do 15 mins of puzzles a game or 2 (15|10) then study for 15-30 mins for now. What I do is somedays ill do puzzles some days ill do end games somedays ill watch videos so I don’t have a set schedule. 

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tygxc

playing actual games 40%

analysing lost games 20%

study annotated grandmaster games 20%

solving puzzles  10%

endgames 10%

studying openings 0%

neetubhojnagarwala

you play on chess.com two hours daily

 

neetubhojnagarwala

i also play two hours

AkshathK118
tygxc wrote:

playing actual games 40%

analysing lost games 20%

study annotated grandmaster games 20%

solving puzzles  10%

endgames 10%

studying openings 0%

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AkshathK118
neetubhojnagarwala wrote:

you play on chess.com two hours daily

 

I already play for more than 2 hours grin.png

martinplath

You should be doing your homework and helping your mom clean the house more. 

AkshathK118

ok lol

gullupakka

just keep playing and you will improve

hint: play bullet

ChristReignsAsKing

Akshath118 - If I'm online, you can challenge me and I'll probably accept unless I'm busy.  I don't mind coaching you for free.  

I would recommend having a payed account (I have gold), so that you can analyze and study opening explorer.  

You are 1400-1600 +,  so I would recommend that you make sure you have a strong grasp of your openings.  Also, I would say that just solve as many puzzles as the chess.com will allow you to solve per day and play games and analyze the rest of the time.

gullupakka

wait, i thought endgames are the most important? (thats where the most blunders occur)

 

dfgh123

If your rating is still going up just keep doing what your doing now.

ChristReignsAsKing

I think ChesswithNickolay makes a good point.  For 1600, you guys are far more likely to blunder or lose in the middle game than the endgame.  Once you are able to play so well in the middle game, your rating will go up.  At my level (2300), we can play consistently with >90% accuracy, so that allows us to reach more endgames than 1600s would usually reach.

SECOND: @ChesswithNickolay: 80% + 40% + 20% + 10% + 10% + 20% = 180%.  That's not possible.angry.png  

marqumax

I don't know how much time you have, but do 2h tactics 1h openings 1h/2h playing and the rest (as much as possible, preferably 5+ hours) with books and a chessboard.

marqumax

But realistically you won't have that much time, so just focus on tactics and books as much as you can

IMKeto
AkshathK118 wrote:

Hi, I'm a 13 year old chess player who is currently 1600 in rapid and 1400 in blitz. How much time should I spend approximately on solving puzzles, studying openings and endgames, and playing actual games?

Depends...

Depends on what your goals are.

Depends on what you mean by "improve"

If your goal is to get better at online speed chess, then just hit tactics, and nutty openings hard. 

If your goal is to improve in OTB tournament play?  Youre going about improving wrong.

dfgh123

I am 1600 rapid and we still leave our Queens en prise I think 1600 are just beginners who have started to grasp the tips given to 800's.

michael2jb

At 1500, I spend my time trying out different openings so I can see first hand what the strengths/weaknesses are with each of them first hand.  Reading about them doesn't sink in.  It's cost me ratings but helped me determine which openings work best for me.  To do this, I read and watch opening videos to see different tactics with the opening.  Middlegame improves by doing puzzles and playing games.  I try to play at least 5 games/day (15/10 or 10/0).  Most games end long before the time expires.  I find it important to keep it up daily though.  If you stop then the knowledge is lost.  And I agree with an earlier comment, if your rating is still improving then don't change a thing and continue with what you're doing.

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