July tracking:
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Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian
July goals:
1) Recognizing Your Opponent's Resources
Have the book from library and on chessable. Haven't done any of it :/.
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2) All 2nd moves of 1.d4 repertoire (so I can start training it properly in blitz)
Stopped doing other things in order to concentrate on this but got bogged down in the Marshall the last week and haven't finished. Feel kind of burned out to be honest on this kind of studying.
However, I'll definitely finish 1.d4 c4 repertoire this month.
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3) 10m/day studies
4) 10m/day chesstempo anonymous blitz
Abandoned these after a week or so it seems.
Didn't do any
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6) For fun: Read Devoted to Chess: The Creative Heritage of Yuri Razuvaev - library just got it in, no clue how they pick the chess books they end up with. So far even just reading people's memories of him is very worthwhile/inspirational.
Read it except the articles on specific openings (which I skimmed) and his games.
I also spent quite a bit of time reading Logic in Chess by Erik Kislik as he was going on the Perpetual Chess Podcast. The book is amazing and also horrible at the same time. More on the amazing side but hopefully his second book has a better editor.
One of the main things it's done is definitively reinforced that playing and analyze my games is the highest priority for improving. I wish I read it a couple months earlier (well, or much earlier) because it also was very helpful in direction for how to study one's own games. I now really do feel like I can do it relatively efficiently and learn much better from them (rather than spending time but not necessarily getting much out of it).
I'm also reading The Rookie right now which is a book some ~130-140 ECF player wrote about his attempt to make it to 170 grade (and lots of chess personalities and history along the way). It's very good and fun to read. Even though his journey is maybe somewhat of a "downer" overall given his attitude and outlook on chess players I find it refreshing to help remind myself that I don't think like that and am doing really well even when I feel frustrated.
Perhaps the coolest development is that a 2050-2100 player (who is a TD) reached out to set up 2 game mini-matches with me. He doesn't work during most days and my work schedule is very flexible so I hope to play 2 60+30 games with him each week. That should be great for training although I imagine maybe after a certain # of games it will be too boring to play the same person over and over? Not sure.
My goal for August is:
1) 8 games (hopefully 60+30 match games, but if not then 30m+ games online if I can find them)
2) Analyze all 8 games
3) Finish learning 1.d4 c4
4) Review miscellaneous things and openings on Chessable
It's amazing how much time playing long games and analyzing them takes so this may be all I end up being able to handle. We'll see.
Last edited by The Yugoslavian; 08-02-2019 at 10:34 AM.