This is a gimmick cause I am too embbarrassed of my crazy plan.
My blitz rating record on ICC is about 2700. My plan is to get it to 3500 in four years. 3500 represents approximately 2700 elo. Especially because my otb strenght is 2350 which means I am not a blitz specialist. This being a poker forum means I am no teen. Also I do not think I am very talented. IQ scores ranging from 70 to 120. But I hope I am crazy enough.

My plan for every day:
- Analyse all the 2600 elo guys's games. That is about 10 games a day. Two hours work for that
- Play 100 otb games and 70 long games against engines. That is one game every other day. 2.5 hours for that.
- Chesstempo one hour.
- Two chess.com videos. Half an hour.
- Analysing my own games and openings. Two hours
- ICC games. Two hours
- Exercise one hour. My physics sucks donkey balls.
Total 11 hours.

I would like to say I will prob fail with all this but that would destroy my optimism. Do this and soon smallville will suck my dick hard and long. Not to make this journal boring I will try to post some chess stuff everytime I update this. Good luck you mother****er.

What did Khalifman (2626) miss last week?

This is the only part I don't get (or the only part I read?).

Make this a prop bet and you will get all the action in the world!

That's ambitious. Good luck, you're gonna need it. Are chess.com videos worth your training time? For the little I've seen they seem pretty basic.
Also, what does this mean exactly

Why do you care about your rating on an internet server?
With that strength and training plan I'd rather go for some GM norms.

I just am. My name shall remain a secret hahaa.

I do not know. Basic is good.
Khalifman was white and Sandipan another 2600 had just moved Bg5. Your answer it correct.

I do play otb but I am not sure I can get my elo that high with my resources. I am not going crazy about blitz it is just if I get it to 3500 I am pretty damn good.

For some reason quote removes that. I am thinking a game takes five hours so that is 2.5 hours every day.

Btw just to add to the question about the value of watching a few videos. If you are like me and have not read many books you learn a bit how the gms think. For an example look at black's 45th trick move.
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess...281614&kpage=3

This isn't very clear what you mean...but I suppose you mean:
1. Bxg5 Qxg5 2. exd5 cxd5 3. Qd2.
This position is very sharp and complicated imo...
You haven't considered 1...Bxc4 or 1...Nxc3.
1. Bxg5 Bxc4 2. Qxc4 Qxg5 (or f6) and then 3. exd5 wins a piece.
1. Bxg5 Nxc3 2. Qg4!* (I think), and now:
2...f6 3. Bh6 Qe7 (or g6) 4. bxc3
2...Nf6 3. Bxf6 Qxf6 4. bxc3
2...f5 3. exf5 exf5 4. Qxf5 looks fine
2...h5 3. Qxh5 f6 4. Nd6 wins a piece overall i think
2. bxc3* and now both 2...Qxg5 or 2...Bxc4 both look playable for black.
I've probably gone wrong somewhere because it's very complex...
Also, terrible level
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very quickly: Nb5?

Just ched with a computer an all my lines are correct. Wow

I think some here are familiar with that game! BTW, 45...Qb6 was Black's best practical try, but I think the subsequent analysis revealed that White wins by 46. Qd2 and eventually winning the a-pawn, but the win is far from trivial.

Isn't 46. Qd2 really obvious?

What plan(s) does black have? Is it 46...Qa7? ...b6 looks strong there. Otherwise, white wins easily, surely...

Jewbinson, it's nice to know that you find chess easy. In every analysis you provide everything is "easily, surely.." etc. Or shall I say in every computer analysis you provide? :O

By the way, I am not sure how White wins after Qd2? Let's say black just plays h4, and then when white moves the knight to get to b3 black will just play Kb7 followed by Qa7 and Kb6 when needed?

All I know for sure is this guy must be french.

Only french people type English like that.

Chess is easy.

No money in chess; everyone's solid.

I haven't checked this with the computer.

Also, when I type in chess forum, I never check with the engine unless I state so. Lots of my posts give incorrect/inaccurate lines...

I thought you could just take the queen and play Qd2 and then get the King to a4 and then sac on a5, but Be8 stops any pawn advances.

I think I can challenge what you're saying:

46. Qd2 h4 47. Nb2 Kb7 48. Nd3 Qa7 49. Nxe5 dxe5 50. Qc3 ~

50... Qb6 51. Qex5 looks interesting
50... a4 51. Qxe5 Qa5 and I'm not really sure

So yeah, It's much more difficult than I thought I guess, because the simple lines don't really work

hmmm. smallville is already sucking grischuks dick, maybe u can find someone else

I´m a little confused. Are you gonna study chess 11 hours A A DAY for four years?!?! That would be utterly insane if your only goal is to improve your ICC Blitz rating and only slightly less insane if you want to become an IM or s´thing. This is a bs post right, with made up stuff?

Only 10. One hour goes to to physical exercising. And it was just a plan. I am already slightly off the course. My goal is to improve my chess. Blitz rating is just a way to confirm it.

Blitz doesn't confirm how good you are in longer chess, because of the whole time management thing.

However, it should improve your intuition, and improving in blitz usually means improving in longer time controls due to faster/better thinking methods, and vice versa imo

if you're 2300 and going to spend 10h/d on chess, play some ELO-rated games and go for the IM/GM titles. That would be a real achievement and proves your strength much better than some ICC rating. With that much time on your hands, where's the problem?

Problem is the money which you need to travel to foreign countries. But of course I will play all I can.

Play at tournaments

e.g. London Classic is on in a few weeks.

Although, there still is the money problem I guess... maybe grind some poker? EZ money