How much rest do we take?

Had a day off of chess today. I am knackered. How much do others train?

4 days 5, 6 or every day?
Do you feel you are learnig when you practice all of the time or do you feel that you need a break sometimes?

The course said six hours a week. So i am sorta keeping myself to those six hours. I try to put those hours in four days, friday i play in my club so no study then.

Saterday and sunday i usually dont study so for those six hours i have monday to thursday. So far so good.

CT .I know it said 6. I reckon I'm doing about 20 hrs per week & still not completing it.

I try to take one day off a week, and do chess about 6 hours a day otherwise. I play two slow games a week minimum, too. Fridays are a good day to take off.

I try to study as much as I can during the week but I usually can't study much on the weekend. So, weekends off mostly for me.

Blue Devil Knight wrote:I try to take one day off a week, and do chess about 6 hours a day otherwise. I play two slow games a week minimum, too. Fridays are a good day to take off.

Umm, I meant to say 2 hours a day. Six would be a bit excessive. After all it is just a silly game.

Blue Devil Knight wrote:

Blue Devil Knight wrote:I try to take one day off a week, and do chess about 6 hours a day otherwise. I play two slow games a week minimum, too. Fridays are a good day to take off.

Umm, I meant to say 2 hours a day. Six would be a bit excessive. After all it is just a silly game.

Mot as excessive as my 4 days per day!!

hoopy wrote:

Blue Devil Knight wrote:

Blue Devil Knight wrote:I try to take one day off a week, and do chess about 6 hours a day otherwise. I play two slow games a week minimum, too. Fridays are a good day to take off.

Umm, I meant to say 2 hours a day. Six would be a bit excessive. After all it is just a silly game.

Mot as excessive as my 4 days per day!!

If I don't have much to do at work - as the case is on most days I try to study the whole day until I have a headache!

Gosh, it seems as if i am doing nothing compared with you guys. I wonder if i have to get up a gear or stick with what i am doing now?

chesstiger wrote:Gosh, it seems as if i am doing nothing compared with you guys. I wonder if i have to get up a gear or stick with what i am doing now?

We're all different. It is what works for you. If you can get the quality with 6 hours rather than the quantity then I'm jealous!! Good luck.

This thread inspired me to post this at my blog:
http://chessconfessions.blogspot.com/2009/06/chess-overtraining.html

Well, i'm taking 2 weeks rest far from chess and computers also, going to walk in mountains.
See you in september.

HangingKing wrote:Well, i'm taking 2 weeks rest far from chess and computers also, going to walk in mountains.
See you in september.

Enjoy!

I'm also enjoying my vacation from chess.

Having rested 1,5 months without doing something about ICS i guess its best i start from month one again from today.

Anyway, have nice walks in the mountains. I hope its as exciting as doing the ics course.

Well, i'm back. (c) Tolkien.

My feet are destroyed, my eyes are full of beautiful landscapes, thus it's good to go back to chess and use my brain a little now :-)

Can anybody remind me how that horsy thing moves?

Up and down and sometimes from left to right.

Oh ?!
It's much more complicated, the horse moves on the 2D board but goes to hyperspace from time to time. When a piece prevent him to reach its final square, the horse gets into a wormhole and reappear on the other side.

Some dummy people say the horse jumped using the third dimension of the board, but it is a misconception, I never saw a real horse jumping abeam, making 1 step 90° from its starting point !

In reality it was wormholed, and poped out a few squares ahead, thus his curve trajectory is simply explained by a straighforward 3 squares move in the hyperspace geometry. So obvious when you think about it.

I usually play 2 hrs. a day..If I feel bored I make this makes me feel better..
Playing chess gives me more relaxation.Because I enjoy in it.

The time i am not eating or watching television (or in loo ) i think i am with chess. I do tactics training or read in materials.

When it needs to freshen up, i play some quick online blitz. Or at the most play some online bridge or rummy games.

I normally play after returning from office at evening (around 7pm) and continue till 11, with dinner breaks. In weekends, i think it's the full day (except the marketing time ..lol)

I play two slow games a week minimum, too. Fridays are a good day to take off.