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Playing vs Studying

or move the pieces in a physical board if u prefer, but its afer all playing the moves alone, that is what studying is, unless u got a class and pay a teacher, but still chess is an "individual" game u have to think it through urself.
@the_loving_boy #17
Easiest imho : Find annotated chess games, or watch chess videos.
You can find annotated chess games in chess news on websites, chess magazines, books, videos.
(I did read about this to you in another forum comment a few days ago).
Here's a few annotated games :
"All annotated games by great GMs"
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1004072
Here more than 2000+ annotated games, including classics from e.g. Stamma, annotated by Stamma (!) :
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ezsearch.pl?search=annotated
You go through them, absorb what is new, learn from it, and apply it into your own games.

Or, if you want to study certain parts of chess, you can search for players and go through their games, and see which ideas they use.
For example, as a Morra gambit player as you, it makes sense to go through the games of IM Esserman, since Morra gambit is the ultimate opening for him.
Or if you want to study endgames, go through games of Fischer, Capablanca, Karpov, preferably annotated games, and if you can try to find annotations for one game by more than one player.

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