Immersion

When you realise that you've got a lot of free time coming up and nothing specific to do with it ... you might as well throw yourself into chess, right?

My chess goals for September:

• Play 5 training games at 30+15 / 40+30
• Complete the 222 "Easy" Positions from The Woodpecker Method (5-10 each day)
• Study 30 Beat the Masters positions (one each day)
• Play through 100 games of Isaac Boleslavsky (3-4 daily)
• Finish Boost Your Chess: Fundamentals (18 chapters & final test to go)
• Re-read Excelling at Chess
• Listen to all the new episodes of The Chess Pit
• Listen to all the previously released 'adult improver' episodes of Perpetual Chess
• Finish Tiny Habits (by 15th September)
• Read one other new book - title yet to be decided - 16th to 30th September
• Re-watch Game Over: Kasparov and the Machine; Bobby Fischer Against The World; Magnus
• Re-watch I am Bolt; Man on Wire
• Walk 2km every day (1st to 15th September)
• Walk 3km every day (16th to 30th September)
• Acquire [redacted] for forthcoming secret project on [redacted].
• Have a birthday
• Confirm an infinitely less busy, but structured, schedule for October.

and

• Review progress on the blog each Sunday

Estimated daily time commitment:

Woodpecker          15 minutes

BtM                 1 hour

Boleslavsky         1 hour

BYC/F               3 hours

Excelling at Chess  30 minutes

Podcasts            45 minutes

General Reading     1 hour

Walking             30 minutes

TOTAL               8 hours

With the training games to be played and films to be watched one each per week.

Let's see how it goes.