Playing through 10,000 games

So this is my study plan, based on the idea of playing through 10,000 games quickly (Silman style). I'm going to pick 25 king's pawn openings and 25 queen's pawn openings, and play through 100 games from each side for that opening. Before starting a new openings, I'm going to study that opening's main concepts and ideas. I only have limited time, so I won't get to each thing every day, so I've prioritized my studies.

1. 15 mins of tactics puzzles on chess.emrald.net. (No more than 15 mins as advised by IM David Preuss.)

2. When I hit 1600, I'm going to do calculation exercises, like from My System. I'll start at 20 mins per position, and increase my time by 10 mins for every 300 rating points. (Again, advised by IM David Preuss.)

3. Go over 20 games. If I'm starting a new opening, I'll devote this time to opening study instead.

4. Endgame study. A combination of Silman's endgame book and playing over positions against a computer.

5. Positional study. I'm not really sure how I plan on doing this. Maybe read through a book, or articles here on chess.com.

6. Play a slow game, hopefully at least once a week. 30 mins, maybe an hour. I'll make sure to use all my time. Annotate the game with my thoughts, and post the game here on chess.com for review/advice. Take a few positions from this game, save them and their notes, review them occasionally.

How sound does this plan look to you? What would you change/how would you prioritize these? Also, when choosing openings to study, should I only pick openings I plan on playing, or be well-rounded?

A better Idea is search google and find out how GM's are trained from their training period.

I don't recall any "calculation exercises" from My System, but you can't go wrong by just reading it anyway. Personally I don't think whizzing thru 10,000 games quickly, anyone's style, will be as helpful as playing thru 100 annotated games instead, but that's just my opinion*

I wouldn't worry about studying specific openings other than to follow GM Reti's advice from his classic work Masters of the Chessboard in which he advises beginners to concentrate on Double KP Openings exclusively as White and Black (whenever possible that is) and learn Open games first, semi-open games next and closed games last.

*Check out a few of the annotated games in my blogs to see what i'm talking about BTW the annotations are by GMs and/or IMs not me 

http://www.chess.com/blog/NimzoRoy/a-heavyweight-heavy-piece-endgame

http://www.chess.com/blog/NimzoRoy/bobbys-first-win-vs-boris-fischer---spassky-wch-1972-game-3

GOOD LUCK!

sounds good. Have you decided which 10000 games you are choosing?

hi I just sent you a message, asking how your study plan is going. I'm about to embark on a study plan, helped by some good people on chess.com who are advising me. 

I noticed you wrote something about calcluation exercises, 'adding ten minutes as advised by David Pruess'. Can you tell me more about what you or he mean by this? thanks, and also please tell me how your progress is and how your study plan, which was originally posted nine months ago, has been going. thanks 

I suggest you look at Chess Mentor for positional study.  There are several courses.

There is also an entire courses on several openings -- my favorite is King's Indian which can morph into several defenses, and Sicilian.