I am new to ICC and am looking for study advice. I am a 73 year old retiree and now have time to study the game. I belong to a loose local chess club but most of the people bring their kids to play and get upset when I don’t want to play a 6 year old so I don’t attend often. I live in a retirement community and can’t seem to find any players. Therefore, most of my games are online or against Fritz 11. My question is this—When studying annotated Master games, should I play out all the variations or just study the main lines ? I have Chernev’s Logical Chess Move by Move, MacDonald’s Chess, the Art of Logical Thinking and some others. The only tournament experience I have are the Senior Olympic games where I have collected a Silver medal and a couple of Bronzes.