Chess Training Tips-Solve 5-10 tactical problems every single day

Chess Training Tips-Solve 5-10 tactical problems every single day
Use a tactics/problem book, tackle a few problems each day writing down your solutions.
Any tactics/problem book will do. I personally have all my students start with the two books by Reinfeld. "1001 Brilliant Ways to Checkmate" and "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations" If you did five problems from each book daily, it would literally take you 200 days to systematically work your way through both books.
Solve them in your head, on a chess board, or from a diagram but without moving the pieces. Its also very important to write down your answers and check them - maybe once a week is best. Many students have reported that they greatly look forward to checking their answers, and get a tremendous boost when they have done well with their problems
I cannot stress enough the importance of writing down the answers. It helps you be honest with yourself. Its also like a teacher grading a paper, every time you check your answers, you are grading yourself!
In approximately March of 2001, I saw an article in a psychology magazine. The subject of the article focused on a 11-year study of language students. These students studied languages every day for many years. The final result was that, at the end of the study, many students who had originally been classified as poor or mediocre in language skills, actually wound up being re-classified as linguistically adept. I believe this method actually works for chess-players also.
My experience - from my students whom I am 100% sure used this method every single day; some did it 2-3 times daily - is that it takes a minimum of about six months to really affect the basic way your brain works. The students who actually stuck with this program for a long period of time saw a dramatic increase in their tactical vision. One student, who had been stuck at around a 1500 level for several year, saw his rating jump to nearly 1900 in about 18 months. We studied together at a minimum of once a week and he solved his problems usually twice a day for a minimum of 30 minutes a day. He reported a huge increase in the amount of tactics he saw after around 9 months of study. This is a study method that my students have proven works - over and over again, many, many times. I personally guarantee this method will work as long as you use it in the proscribed manner. But you must use it in exactly the manner I have set forth here, no variance is allowed.