As I take a new start in my professional life, I'm also taking a new start in blogging.
I plan on rewriting and improving my content and on posting twice a week.
You can see me start over at : http://www.chessimprovementroadmap.com
Wish me luck in my new endeavours!
Chess, learning and hopefully improvement!
My attemps to become a decent player.
Sep 28, 2016
Sep 18, 2016
The big chess training plan
I recently bought the book Chess Exam and Training Guide and I took the whole test in a day (it was a Sunday). The results were eye-opening!
My biggest weaknesses are tactics, sacrifices, calculation and openings.
My other weaknesses are attack, strategy, middlegame and endgame.
What I call weaknesses are the areas where my estimated rating was lower than my overall rating.
My strengths (where I scored higher than the overall rating) are defense, recognizing threats, standard endgame positions and counterattack.
My biggest weaknesses are tactics, sacrifices, calculation and openings.
My other weaknesses are attack, strategy, middlegame and endgame.
What I call weaknesses are the areas where my estimated rating was lower than my overall rating.
My strengths (where I scored higher than the overall rating) are defense, recognizing threats, standard endgame positions and counterattack.
Sep 14, 2016
Review #1 : Chess Exam and Training Guide
Chess Exam And Training Guide: Rate Yourself And Learn How To Improve (Chess Exams) is great to help you build your training plan.
This book helps you identify your weak areas. The areas tested are :
- Attack
- Counterattack
- Defense
- Openings
- Middlegame
- Endgame
- Tactics
- Strategy
- Calculation
- Standard positions
- Recognizing threats
- Sacrifice
Sep 6, 2016
Life happens
I have a great opportunity to advance in my career, but it means moving to another town and getting used to my new environment.
So I won't be blogging for a while. As soon as everything is back to normal I'll come back -hopefully in 2 or 3 weeks.
So I won't be blogging for a while. As soon as everything is back to normal I'll come back -hopefully in 2 or 3 weeks.
Sep 4, 2016
Weekly Chess Training Report #1
- Tactics : I completed stage 2 of Sergey Ivashchenko's Manual of Chess Combinations, Vol. 1a. It corresponds to the 1300 elo level. I did stage 1 (level 1200 elo) last week. I will repeat stage 2 because I failed to solve some of the problems. I intend to repeat it until I have 100% of correct and complete answers. My rating is 1594 but my tactical strength isn't even 1300, this confirms that tactics is one of my weaknesses.
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