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Study Routines & Training Plans
Spaced Repetition for Chess Pattern Recognition
Solving a puzzle once and moving on barely helps your long-term pattern recognition — spaced repetition, borrowed from memory science, is a far more efficient way to make tactical patterns genuinely stick.
Hardik Ranpariya · October 11, 2026
How to Study Endgames Efficiently
A practical approach to endgame study that avoids the two most common failure modes — memorizing without understanding, and skipping it entirely because it feels less exciting than tactics.
Hardik Ranpariya · October 7, 2026
Setting Realistic Chess Improvement Goals
How to set chess improvement goals that actually motivate sustained progress, rather than ones that quietly set you up for discouragement.
Hardik Ranpariya · October 3, 2026
Balancing Online Play with Serious Study
Why simply playing more games often isn't enough to keep improving — and how to strike a genuinely productive balance between playing and deliberate, structured study.
Hardik Ranpariya · September 28, 2026
Using a Chess Journal to Track Progress
Why writing things down — games, mistakes, study sessions — produces measurably better improvement than relying purely on memory and intuition alone.
Hardik Ranpariya · September 24, 2026
Studying Master Games: A Practical Method
How to actually get better from studying grandmaster games — a structured method that turns passive game-replay into genuine, transferable improvement.
Hardik Ranpariya · September 20, 2026
How Much Time Should You Spend on Tactics?
A practical look at how much of your study time tactics puzzles should actually occupy — and why the right answer changes considerably as you improve.
Hardik Ranpariya · September 16, 2026
The Role of Opening Study in Improvement
How much opening study actually matters for improving players, and how to strike the right balance between memorization and understanding.
Hardik Ranpariya · September 12, 2026
Breaking Through Rating Plateaus
Why rating improvement stalls even with consistent effort, and the specific diagnostic and training changes that reliably get progress moving again.
Hardik Ranpariya · September 7, 2026
Building a Weekly Chess Training Schedule
A practical framework for structuring your chess study across a week so tactics, openings, endgames, and game review all get consistent attention.
Hardik Ranpariya · September 3, 2026