Chess Notebook Week of 11.30.09
Monday 11.30.09 Played G/20 20 game against opponent rated 1865. Played the Sicilian Grand Prix and lost in a rook endgame where I was a pawn down. Tuesday 12.01.09 Reviewed game. Made an interesting observation that I would not have picked up on if I had not reviewed game. I lost 2 pawns during the game,...Chess Notebook Week of 11.23.09
Started new program mid week, so entries will be from Wednesday through Sunday. Wednesday 11.26.09 Played G/15 5 game against an opponent rated 1687 on ICC (I am provisionally rated 1781 after this game). I plan on playing all of my standard games on ICC so that I can maintain continuity in tracking my ELO...Simple Chess Training
Making it Difficult After several years of working on my chess improvement and from talking to both amateurs and masters it appears that adult amateurs tend to complicate their chess improvement by reading books and tackling concepts that are far too advanced for their level. So, here is my attempt to...Chess Resolutions
Posted by beginchess on Nov 25, 2009 in Announcements, Chess, Goals, Notebook, Resolutions, Training | 4 comments
Farbror the Guru has challenged the chess improvement community to come up with a list of chess goals for the coming year, so here are mine:
Long Term Goals
Increase USCF rating to 1400 (currently at 1283)
Increase Chess Tempo standard tactics rating to 1850 (currently at 1700)
Increase ICC standard rating...
Overcoming Chess Training Plateaus
Posted by beginchess on Nov 17, 2009 in Chess, Improvement, learning, Studying, Training | 1 comment
Plateaus and You
The brain needs time to assimilate and integrate new information as knowledge and to resolve conflicts with previously learned concepts and plateaus equate to slower progress while we assimilate new ideas. Not until we internalize these new ideas as knowledge are we able to move on to the...