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Oct 2024
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EP 122 | How To Structure Your Training

IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM David Pruess, GM Jesse Kraai
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GM Jesse Kraai, IM David Pruess, and IM Kostya Kavutskiy talk details about how to structure your chess training in today's episode of Dojo Talks, the ChessDojo Podcast.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 How to Structure Your Chess Training
1:35 How Should the Average Person Schedule Their Chess Training?
18:04 How Many Hours to Spend Per Chess Topic
36:35 How to Choose Your Focus
40:03 Allocating Hours for Chess Training
51:40 New Things Coming to the Training Program
52:49 Closing Thoughts

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