📅 3-Month Chess Training Plan (1 Hour/Day, Goal: 800 Rating)
📌 Goal: Improve tactics, strategy, and game understanding to reach 800 rating in 3 months.
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📅 Month 1 – Fundamentals & Tactical Awareness
✅ Learn basic chess principles (center control, development, king safety).
✅ Practice common tactical patterns (pins, forks, skewers, discovered attacks).
✅ Play slow games (rapid/classical) & analyze mistakes.
🗓 Daily Schedule (1 Hour/Day):
20 min: Solve 10-15 tactics (Lichess/[Link] Puzzles).
20 min: Study an opening (London, Italian, or Caro-Kann for simple plans).
20 min: Play a 15|10 or 30 min game & review mistakes.
📚 Resources:
YouTube: GothamChess, Hanging Pawns, ChessBrah
Book: "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess"
Apps: Lichess, [Link]
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📅 Month 2 – Positional Play & Better Endgames
✅ Learn about piece activity, weak squares, and pawn structures.
✅ Practice basic endgames (King + Pawn vs. King, Rook endgames).
✅ Improve calculation skills by solving deeper tactical puzzles.
🗓 Daily Schedule (1 Hour/Day):
20 min: Solve intermediate tactics & calculation drills.
20 min: Study an endgame concept (Lucena position, opposition, etc.).
20 min: Play a rapid game & analyze it.
📚 Resources:
Book: "Silman’s Complete Endgame Course"
YouTube: Daniel Naroditsky’s Speedrun & ChessNetwork
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📅 Month 3 – Consistency & Applying Knowledge
✅ Strengthen opening knowledge & deepen middlegame understanding.
✅ Focus on pattern recognition & blunder reduction.
✅ Play longer games with deep analysis after.
🗓 Daily Schedule (1 Hour/Day):
20 min: Solve puzzles & practice visualization.
20 min: Watch a GM game & try to guess the moves.
20 min: Play a longer time control game & analyze deeply.
📚 Resources:
Book: "Logical Chess: Move by Move"
YouTube: John Bartholomew’s Chess Fundamentals
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🎯 Final Goal After 3 Months
✔️ Consistently avoiding blunders.
✔️ Understanding basic tactics & endgames.
✔️ Playing solid openings & improving calculation.
✔️ Reaching an 800+ rating.
Let me know if you want to focus more on a specific part of chess, like openings or
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endgames!
3-Month Chess Training Plan (1 Hour/Day, Goal: 1500 Rating)
📌 Goal: Improve positional play, tactics, openings, and endgames to reach 1500 in 3
months.
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📅 Month 1 – Strengthening Fundamentals (800-1100)
✅ Learn strong opening principles & focus on 1-2 solid openings.
✅ Improve tactical vision (pins, forks, discovered attacks, double attacks).
✅ Reduce blunders by slowing down and calculating properly.
✅ Play rapid games (10|5 or 15|10) & analyze mistakes.
🗓 Daily Schedule (1 Hour/Day):
15 min: Solve 20+ tactics ([Link]/Lichess Puzzles).
15 min: Study 1 opening & learn its key ideas.
30 min: Play a rapid game & analyze it.
📚 Resources:
YouTube: GothamChess, Hanging Pawns, ChessNetwork
Book: "Winning Chess Tactics" – Yasser Seirawan
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📅 Month 2 – Positional Play & Middlegame Understanding (1100-1300)
✅ Learn strategic ideas (pawn structures, weak squares, piece activity).
✅ Improve calculation (visualizing 3-4 moves ahead).
✅ Study basic endgames (Lucena position, Philidor, opposition).
✅ Practice longer time control games (30 min+) with deep analysis.
🗓 Daily Schedule (1 Hour/Day):
20 min: Solve 15+ advanced puzzles (Lichess Puzzle Streak/Storm).
20 min: Study a middlegame concept (pawn breaks, outposts, etc.).
20 min: Play a long game & review deeply.
📚 Resources:
Book: "Silman’s Complete Endgame Course"
YouTube: Daniel Naroditsky’s Speedrun, John Bartholomew’s Climbing the Rating Ladder
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📅 Month 3 – Advanced Strategy & Competitive Play (1300-1500)
✅ Learn advanced attacking ideas (sacrifices, initiative, king safety).
✅ Focus on opening traps & how to punish mistakes.
✅ Play against stronger opponents (1200-1600 range).
✅ Mix fast (blitz) and slow (rapid) games to build pattern recognition.
🗓 Daily Schedule (1 Hour/Day):
20 min: Solve hard tactical puzzles & practice calculation.
20 min: Study a GM game & try to guess the moves.
20 min: Play a competitive game & analyze it deeply.
📚 Resources:
Book: "Logical Chess: Move by Move" – Irving Chernev
YouTube: Agadmator, Daniel Naroditsky
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🎯 Final Goal After 3 Months
✔️ Strong tactical and positional understanding.
✔️ Confident in openings & playing structured middlegames.
✔️ Better at calculation, avoiding blunders, and finishing won positions.
✔️ Reaching a 1500+ rating.
Would you like adjustments, such as more blitz training or endgame studies?
