Since Lichess switched to their new puzzle system I do more tactics than ever.
Other than that I replay master games, mostly from ChessBase or those books:
Kasparov - The test of times
Fischer - My 60 memorable games
Alekhine - My best games 1908 - 1923
Alekhine - On my way to the World Championship (this is the german title translated, don't know what the original title of the english book is)
Replaying master games is easier with ChessBase because you can put it into training mode where you don't see the full annotation of the game, only the last move. So you can try to guess the next move without the temptation to "cheat".
I spend about an hour every day on tactics at the moment. Today is the 45th day in a row of doing that. Before I barely did any tactics for a long time, although I did a whole lot a few years back.
I spend 5-10 minutes every day revising my opening lines. This is concrete memorization. I plan to study some new opening and middlegame stuff soon.
I have read countless chess books, although I only read endgame books these days. I probably study endgames too much though.
I've been playing for about 8 years, and started in my mid-teens. Of the books I've read/tried to read, the one I got the most of out, by far, was Simple Chess by Michael Stean. I've also had one or two epiphanies about how to play from watching videos and even streams. But what had a much greater effect than all of that was getting better at tactics: for that, head to my profile page, look at how many puzzles I've done, and add about 3000 to account for puzzles on other sites, in other apps, and lichess tactics done while not logged in. Without learning how to calculate, how to visualise move-by-move, how to prioritise threats, etc., you can never hope to win the game against someone who has made a habit of doing these things. That's why long games are more instructive than short games.
Oh, and by the way: on lichess I mostly play blitz nowadays, but I spent many years at the beginning (before lichess even existed) avoiding blitz entirely and only playing rapid or longer. Ideally, I would still do that; currently, I still avoid bullet, and I have no plan to change that.
Study- Around 20 books
Practice- Houndreds to thousands of games against various types of chess engines mostly Chessmaster Series for 3-5 years during my peak interest in young age plus OTB tournments. Review of 1000 of mastergames.
No chess for 10+ years.
Return chess as adult, I play bullet and blitz only. Review of small percentage of bullet and blitz with Stockfish. Puzzles, 20,000+, approx.
Opening preparation ( mostly with Stockfish, sometimes with Leela)
Middle game strategy ( Review of loss of Stockfish games. Engine loss is 99% due to positional blunders. For me, hard to learn from master games as human do mistakes left and right )
Endgame review, 7 men Tablebase online.
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I joined a few days ago. Played a few games, watched a few streams, and got past the 2000 barrier. Hope that helps.
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