The typical training mistake you are probably making (and need to learn to avoid)
Once the paradigms and fundamental procedures of chess training are understood, it is incumbent upon both instructor and student to safeguard the correctness of this process, placing particular emphasis on the orientation of the will that sustains it. In this regard, there exists a deeply ingrained error in the way most chess players conceive of training—an error that must be recognized in order to avoid the harm such a misconception can bring. Curiously, it is not usually related to the number of study hours, the quality of the books, or the difficulty of the exercises, but rather to an idea that seems harmless: Believing that studying consists of learning "new things" in order to “apply them directly” in games. It sounds logical. Yet the reality of the board works differently. A game never pauses to ask the player whether they remember a classic sacrifice, a strategic maneuver, or an opening line. Real positions rarely reproduce the studied examples exactly. On the contra...