Artur Yusupov: Find the turning points Seek the reasons for your mistakes Seek new possibilities Ponder the opening stage Jacob Aagaard: Write down 3 new things you have learned from the game. Always write down the time spent during ... Read more »
It seems that either the tactics trainer has some broken javascript code, or that the javascript they have doesn't get along with Mozilla Firefox, or Google Chrome (I have hit issues under IE as well, though it seems not as often). Today it was op... Read more »
Tonight I spent some time working through more of the class D section of Silman's Endgame Course. Most of my time was spent entertaining our dog, so I didn't get nearly as much done as I wanted even though my wife was working tonight. I did my da... Read more »
Last Wednesday I spent the day working with Joel Johnson on some lines in the Closed Sicilian before his game for the Arizona Scorpions against Chicago. Afterwards I watched the match and updated the demo boards for the games. Arizona won convinci... Read more »
Did some more tactics problems on the tactics trainer. I am trying to do a 15 minute session in the morning, and another in the evening every day. I played through some more games in Nunn's Understanding Chess Move by Move. I have also finished t... Read more »
I was able to get in a better training session today than I did yesterday. I did a couple short sessions of tactics problems on chess.com. I started off pretty poorly and cratered my rating to the lowest it has ever been, I raised it back up,... Read more »
Here is what Shereshevsky had to say about analyzing your own games: I recommend him to play over the game once again slowly and to try to clarify for himself the important arguable moments. Afterwards he should start to write comments and in the... Read more »
This is the game I worked through in Nunn's book last night. A very nice game, that shows that neglecting development for pawn moves can be a very bad thing. Read more »
Another long day of work. In addition to my normal work I had to look at a couple of issues for other team members. We keep having some issues with our fibre channel driver apparently trying to clean up screwed up scsi commands during failover of ... Read more »
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