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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:21am.

Tonight I finished working through the Bishops vs Knights section of Silman's The Amateur's Mind, and started into the section on space and the center. I also did my daily dose of tactics problems, and decided that I will work through Reti's Mast... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:23am.

Did a little bit of tactics trainer work this weekend, and moved a few of my correspondence games along. Most of my training time this weekend was spent on finishing to work through Valeri Beim's Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective. Definitely a goo... Read more »

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Morphy - Harrwitz, Paris 1858

Submitted by snits on Sun Mar 29, 2009 1:55am.

Here is a nice Morphy game I played through tonight while working on Valeri Beim's Paul Morphy: A Modern Perspective.     The sequence starting with 31.Rxh7! is really nice. Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Sat Mar 28, 2009 2:01am.

More time spent in the tactics trainer the past few days. I'm still managing to keep my rating in the 2000-2150 range and upped my success % as well. I finished a couple more games in my thematic tournaments. In a couple some players made some blu... Read more »

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Miles - Andersson, Las Palmas 1980

Submitted by snits on Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:07am.

Another game I played through tonight. I think I might have to buy Tony Mile's game collection Tony Miles: It's Only Me.   Read more »

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Tal - Van der Wiel , Moscow 1982

Submitted by snits on Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:01am.

A nice game I played through tonight as I finished working through Neil McDonald's Chess: the art of logical thinking. Tal offers the sacrifice of a bishop and sacrifices a rook to rip open the position around Van der Wiel's King and then closes ... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Thu Mar 26, 2009 2:32am.

Did a lot more work in the tactics trainer the last couple of days. Continued to do it when I should have gone to bed which caused some wild swings in the tactics trainer rating, but I managed to get back into the 2000-2100 range (new high of 21... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Mon Mar 23, 2009 2:17am.

  Started reading Silman's Amateur's Mind again from the beginning since it had been a couple months since I was working through it. Made it through about 30 pages on Saturday. I did my daily doses of tactics problems in the tactics trainer, h... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Sat Mar 21, 2009 3:34am.

I did more work in the tactics trainer today and hit a new high of 2093. I also spent some time working on my various Ruy Lopez thematic games as I am involved in 3 different thematic tournaments. I finished the evening by playing through a nice w... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:44am.

I have been doing my daily dose of tactics problems on the trainer and have been hovering in the 1950-2050 range. Tonight I continued to work through more annotated master games in Neil McDonald's Chess: the art of logical thinking.  In this fi... Read more »

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