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Originally Posted by YouKnowWho
With this work ethic, I am not sure if you need me anymore :O
great work!
Lol. It means you can check out where I may be weak and be an even more effective coach!! Plus if I end up with good results, you can claim it was all because of your coaching
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7/10 log
Chapter 16: Queen against pawn. Pawn on 7th/2nd rank, winning rule, iknight or central pawn, rook pawn, bishop pawn, pawn on 6th/3rd rank.
Test: 17/29 pass. The tests for this were a bloodbath. I didn't go through the exercises/instructive part on a board as thoroughly as I should have. So as penance I went through the chapter again, even though I didn't fail.
16-4 0 out of 2. Missing this was quite bad imo.
16-5 0 out of 2. Missing this wasn't great but at least less bad.
16-8 0 out of 3. Fairly tricky so not as bad missing it.
16-9 1 out of 3. Kinda bad as this was definitely covered. But man these positions are tricky!
16-10 0 out of 3. Pretty bad. I miscalculated the winning variation, ugh.
7/11 log
Chapter 17: Stalemate motifs. Combinations, motifs in endgame, defence in pawn ending, ideas in studies, ideas in the middlegame.
Test: 13/15 - excellent
Played several blitz games. Took too much time, won on cheapos, missed quite a bit. So, standard? Def not that sharp at blitz atm but not playing a ton.
17-2 0 out of 1 point
17-9 0 out of 1 point. Missed that my move doesn't create a successful mating net. Only 1 square off the actually answer at least,
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7/12 log
Lesson. Learned I can pretty easily take a slightly trickier line vs. Smith Morra. I also got way too hung up on my knight being "out of the game," missing that my position really left the opponent with very few moves.
In the second game we went over coach was pretty surprised I ended up winning. So was I, lol. He said he may show it to Tex as an example of not giving up (and getting lucky, good luck with that Tex!).
7/13 log
Took a mental health day off from work so of course I spent most of it on chess and hanging with our dog, lol.
tactics: 28/30 intermediate set.
2 hours on opening repertoire. Finished putting lines/games of Barry Attack into CPT. Probably should finish putting in Dutch lines next, then Accelerated Dragon lines, then go back to 150 attack + Zukertort, etc.
Chapter 18: Forced variations. The meaning of active moves, forced variations, combinations.
Test: 18/23 - good
18-2: Only got 1 out of 2 points. I miscalculated the continuation although I'm not sure I miss it in a game if I see the first move.
18-3 1 out of 3 points. Cool problem. I considered the right moves but didn't notice everything they threatened.
18-10 1 out of 2. Was sloppy and wrote down the wrong continuation for one of black's follow-up moves.
18-11 1 out of 2. I missed the checkmate net. I had some long variation where white wins but it's pretty ugly.
Chapter 19: Combinations involving promotion. Pawn promotion, pawn breakthrough, breakthrough, double attack on knight along with promotion, various tactical procedures.
Test: 20/20 - excellent. I found this test very easy.