Training sessions

[stevencarr]

Is this idea for training sessions totally dumb?

Two people select 12 positions between them. They analyse them at home.

On the training night, each person then selects 2 of those positions to play out at rapid play, 15 mins each. That makes 4 positions to play out in an evening, which should last about 2 hours.

With suitable positions, this might be a valuable exercise.

Or a total waste of time.

What do people think?

[Clive Blackburn]

It sounds like a good way to learn new openings, if the positions are carefully chosen and players put in the work on the theory before they have to play the games out.

[Jonathan Bryant]

With suitable positions, this might be a valuable exercise.

Or a total waste of time.

What do people think?

Definitely the former, I’d say. It’s very similar to what Axel Smith suggests for technical endgame study in Pump up Your Rating.