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day 7

did tactics trainer and puzzle rush, did badly at tactics trainer back down to 2450 ish, but got up to 31 on puzzle rush

up to exercise 350 on wood pecker

played an OTB rated game, grinded the guy down with black side of the caro for a 60+ moves game

https://www.chessvideos.tv/chess-gam....php?id=113741

pretty happy with my play

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01-23-2019 , 03:41 AM

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day 8

taking a break for a day, fkn exhausted from chess, but ill do some tactics, won't time it tho, i think its better that way

2 more days to go before my tournament

my plan for tmmr (thurs) is:

1. tactics (chess.com/woodpecker/puzzle rush/aagard?)

2. one hour session with a friend (going over some hack lines)

3. repertoire work (white)

4. read some strategy stuff (maybe one of gelfands books)

my plan for fri is:

1. gym early in the morning

2. tactics (like thurs)

3. black repertoire work

4. training games with a strong FM and post-game analysis

5. sleep early!

Last edited by NL Loki; 01-23-2019 at 04:08 AM.

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01-24-2019 , 09:49 AM

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day 9

did less than i hope, just one hour of chess.com tactics, a bunch of blitz online, then went to a state library to do Romain Edouard's calculation series that my friend bought, managed to solve a good chunk of the puzzles whereas my mate had trouble solving one, hes much higher rated and stronger than me, so I take this as a good sign that since beginning my challenge, my tactics improved alot already

the one hour session of opening work I was gonna do with a friend overseas got moved to tmmr, just one day before tournament, so I'm looking forward to a big day of chess preparation to catch up for what I missed out today!

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01-25-2019 , 11:28 AM

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day 10

up to exercise 400 now on wood pecker!

did some tactics on chess.com too and looked at some white repertoire stuff for tmmr

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01-28-2019 , 10:58 AM

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day 11

had a two day hiatus due to OTB tournie, will post some games on here later...

spammed some chess.com tactics during a live MTT for over one and half hours, and sunk below 2400 on it, get a msg from my coach saying he doesnt wanna help me with chess anymore until my tactics is no longer trash (in his words 2.4k tactics on chess.com is club player strength due to inflation, which i agree with), also happened to bust a few places off the FT in the live MTT so that really sucked

up to exercise 420 in the wood pecker method

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01-29-2019 , 09:14 AM

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didnt do much today, gonna try to make up for it tmmr with tactics, a coaching session, and review of my tournament games

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01-30-2019 , 09:53 PM

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day 12

up to exercise 500 on wood pecker

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01-31-2019 , 10:10 AM

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went out to play blitz, got this position against an IM and somehow lost:

http://www.chessvideos.tv/bimg/g7bpovkw36d7.png

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02-01-2019 , 01:10 PM

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day 13

up to exercise 570 on wood pecker

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02-02-2019 , 11:14 AM

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day 14

up to 600 on wood pecker, didn't do much today

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02-03-2019 , 12:25 PM

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Spent the whole day at a poker tournament but should be free for most of February, and should be able to get through the wood pecker book and more

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02-04-2019 , 06:29 AM

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YouKnowWho

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Originally Posted by NL Loki

went out to play blitz, got this position against an IM and somehow lost:

http://www.chessvideos.tv/bimg/g7bpovkw36d7.png

That is quite impressive!

I am very curious how the game went from this position, because I cannot find a single way for black to lose after looking at this for about five minutes :O

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02-04-2019 , 11:56 AM

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Well, it's blitz, so I assume hanging pieces to one move combinations

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02-05-2019 , 01:58 AM

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Day 15

Up to exercise 650 now, it's getting harder

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02-05-2019 , 10:02 AM

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Day 16

up to exercise 700

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02-05-2019 , 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian

Well, it's blitz, so I assume hanging pieces to one move combinations

I do that in classical games as well

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02-06-2019 , 01:16 PM

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day 17

up to exercise 750

decided to work on my white repertoire abit so I was working on lines against the slav/tarrasch/QGD set ups with the english

if any strong players like YKW or Yugo want to contribute (yugo, ill pm u about the practice games soon), please feel free to post in this study: https://lichess.org/study/yWojHpkL

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02-07-2019 , 09:56 AM

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day 18

up to exercise 800

might play a tournie this weekend, so ill be prepping hard tmmr

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02-08-2019 , 08:29 PM

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day 19

up to exercise 850

won't be able to make that tournie, its 6 hours worth of trips to get there and back per day and its a 2 day swiss event

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02-10-2019 , 11:16 AM

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had the weekend off, but had a session on positional play like pawn breaks etc...

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02-11-2019 , 10:51 AM

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day 20

up to exercise 900

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02-12-2019 , 12:55 PM

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day 21

up to exercise 950

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02-13-2019 , 12:21 PM

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day 22

finished the intermediate exercises with exercise 984

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02-14-2019 , 12:53 AM

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Originally Posted by NL Loki

Must be a hardcore coach if he doesn't want to keep a player on for having a below 2400 tactic rating on Chess.com! Seems like that would limit his students greatly if that is a requirement.

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