study/training plan and routine for tournament chess improvement

I am making this topic becuase I want to get better at chess, everyone gives the same advice. Sudy tactics, study openings, end games, middlegames, study your own games, study grandmaster games study books play obviously potatoes, tomatoes, potatatatoes. This is all good advice, but at all this information and all the resources online it is very overwhelming, how does one conduct a serious strucuted training reigmen. How much time perday should be devoted for x y and z. What resources are better than others? What Software video's online instruction books? This is for a pretty serious chess player, so I want to focus on a schemes for at least a 1700. Amateur Intermediates level 1700-2000 Elo advanced 2000 and beyond. I would hope to get relatively strong players that have put in the correct work to get results like 1900 and above hopesully masters please :(? Any links you can provide for a chess study plan for improvement we can discuss, and look at is appreciated. :)

For starters get the newest edition of Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual assuming you didn't get through his School of Chess Excellence 2: Tactical Play done first. Calculation is very important.  Heisman's Improving Chess Thinker is optional but worth a read to get an idea of how different rating levels think usually.  Do the practice positions, write down your thoughts, and compare with the protocols in every category. 

You may also want to consider Judit Polgar Teaches Chess and her From GM to Top 10. 

For endgames you want Nunn's Understanding Chess Endgames and Shereshevsky's Endgame Strategy.  You should only focus on one book at a time because you assimilate the knowledge easier. 

lol, you suggest Heisman's Improving Chess Thinker side by side with Dvoretsky's Analytical Manual.

I don't know... maybe 800 rating points difference in those book's target audiences.

@ rookinrock
Yeah it's overwhelming... because there's a lot to learn.  This may help: http://www.chess.com/article/view/study-plan-directory

A big part of improving is going to tournaments and talking with stronger players (at the tournament but also at a club).  IMO you only need a few good books (and depending on the person, maybe not even that) to get you to 2000.  What you definitely need though is lots of experience playing and analyzing with players better than yourself.

The Heisman book is great for any rating level to see where your thinking process errors lie.  I remember on De Groot A my problem was analyzing deeper than necessary.  I only did so because I like knowing how to prepare for the endgame (yes it was an isolated queen pawn position but a kingside attack wasn't there) and I asked can I leave the b-pawn en prise (learned from Think Like a Grandmaster) and concluded I can due to the forcing variations.  Despite obtaining the bishop pair I didn't like Nxc6 because of bxc6! where the isolated c-pawn is more valuable for black reinforcing the d5 square instead of an object of attack for me to play against. 

Heisman also recommends studying and analysing with better players, but if that isn't an option then annotated master games.  Bronstein or Najdorf's Zurich tournament book, Alekhine's Best Games, Olympiad United Dresden 2008, and like mentioned above the Polgar books.  There's no need for all of these however and since it's best to work with one book at a time there's no need to purchase everything at once.  There are online stores with used books for good prices. 

Chess is a science, there is so much to learn and cause and effect relationships are consistent with general rules.  You have seeming exceptions that only superficially violate rules or do violate some but compensate by following another, static advantages, dynamics, etc. 

Tactics are great not only for the ego boost of solving them and pattern recognition, but also helps with board geometry.  A bishop or rook bisecting the board through a piece or even in empty space (controlling squares near a king especially) for example could clue you in on an answer, pressure, etc. 

As for the Dvoretsky book everyone says calculation is very important and one GM and hard work is required to improve. 

If you want to study schemes, may I suggest The Middlegame, book 1 by Euwe. Also, about 4 days or so before a major tournament I would cease all study. What I bring to the board is all I know and nothing else could improve it at that moment in time. I would go to the driving range and just concentrate on the singular task of hitting the ball. I would go out to the suburbs or countryside and just relax. I would rather come to the board and solve problems on the fly with a clear mind than have mass knowledge crammed up in a hazy head.

The work the Dvoretsky book asks of the reader is a number of magnitudes more difficult than... just about any chess book I own.  I also have Improving Chess Thinker.

Well I have heard tips from strong players online, saying that it is the wrong approach to read one book then another then another and keep going redundantly. They say this will contradict and confuse you, rather than help you, better to study a handful of very good books and then just study games on your own, whucha think?

Dvoretsky's book may not be useful for anyone FIDE rated under 2300.