effective studying (General)

by siegrun , Saturday, August 27, 2005, 12:47 (7175 days ago)

I've studied chess puzzles for a long time. At first I believed that I ought to know them after looking at them once - wrong. Then I looked at them 1/2 year later & had forgotten most of them. I did the same a year later with the same dismal effect. a few weeks ago I started doing it the proper way:
1. look at some puzzles.
2. repeat ten minutes later.
3. repeat next day.
4. repeat next week.
5. repeat next month & you should have put them in your long term memory!

This is the only efficient method. You may think its boring, but everything else is a complete waste of time.

This site is good because you can go back & repeat the exercises before you get the new ones.
all the best, siegrun