Thursday, September 22, 2016

Chess


Chess has been a part-time passion for me, for a couple years now. It has enveloped my spare time, and is one of my favorite pastimes. However, in the last couple weeks, I have been slightly bogged down. In my last tournament, I had a won game, but I blundered in the endgame. After that game I completely botched the next one. I have found, I can't seem to get the positions I want, and can't seem to calculate long enough.

This has been really depressing lately, so I have decided to stop most of my tournament activity and focus on my chess game.

First, I wanted to make some goals:

  1. I want to get my online rating over 1700
  2. I want to get my tactics rating over 1700
  3. I want to finish the "Silman Endgame Book" and pass all of the tests
  4. Know all of my openings like a grand master
  5. Learn blind chess

The final goal is to focus on my calculating in chess games. The better you can play blind chess, the easier it is to calculate positions.

As a schedule, I want to do at least 10 tactics on chess.com. Then, study one section out of the Silman book. Last, work on my blind chess by playing a blind game with myself.

Please comment if you have any ideas on how I can improve my goals or my schedule. 

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