This guide is going to walk through my story and in particular how I came up with a number of methods to improve my own chess, especially my intuition. It will detail the reasoning behind these methods, why they work, and fundamental aspects of making them successful - both in general and in my personal experience.

It is possible that you don't have time for all of that nonsense. You just want to know what I recommend and if it is worth your time. I respect that. This chapter is for you.

These are the following steps I recommend, and the resources provided to help you to take them:

1. Creating custom model games I recommend that you work with an engine to create long, game-length lines in an opening that you want to learn. These lines will be sound and have ideas that you can apply in a variety of positions coming out of your opening. To help you do this, I provide line-construction principles in chapter 9 of the guide, and provide line-construction examples in the blog.
2. Memorizing custom model games I recommend that you memorize the games that you create. To assist with this, I will show you how in the tools section how to upload your games into a personal course in Chessable, and to create a "talk track" that you walk through when running through these games to aid with memory.
3. Playing and analyzing. I recommend that you play online games and identify positions where your intuition has been deficient in them. You should keep a running list of these games classified into simple groupings (e.g. "Rook endings" "Winawer middlegames") and revisit challenging positions regularly to address them. I give an example in the tools section. You should address them with review, custom model game coverage, and sparring.
4. Sparring against an engine. I recommend that you address problem positions by playing them against an engine multiple times, switching sides each time. I show you ways to do this in the tools section.

That's it. I'll keep providing examples of line creation and repertoire creation in the blog, as well as talk about topics related to playing better chess.

Of course, understanding why something works is very important to executing it well. If you want to know how I came to explore these methods and why they things work better than the alternatives, then read on.