Saturday, May 01, 2010

Perhaps a lack of midichlorians















I have tried to put positional knowledge into practice during my games. Allthough I feel a lot of potential in it it still doesn't boost my performance. The problem is that if you have to do 65 things well in a game and you do only 6o well, you are not going to win the game.

It feels a bit the same as when I started with tactics years ago. Then you could hear me whining "I'm the only one who worked this game, I have to do everything myself. Even loosing. . .!!"

I have to study for my work so there's not too much time left for blogging. But I expect that to change after the summer.

Margriet on the other hand is doing extremely well with the new knowledge. I expect her to cross the 1600 line soon. Every seasoned tournement player knows that it is extremely rare for women at age 50 to increase from 1150 to 1600. Usually 1400 is an unbreakable barrier. So I'm very proud.

4 comments:

  1. Nice to see you still active. By the summer I might have more time again and I mighty pick up the pieces again.

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  2. "The problem is that if you have to do 65 things well in a game and you do only 6o well, you are not going to win the game"

    You just have to find the best move, every time. Forget about the other 64 things. With every suboptimal move you or your opponet is losing points. Who lost the most points will lose the game. Find your biggest leaks

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  3. Hooray for Margriet!
    As she continue this speed in getting up chess strenght she soon will be the highest rated chess player at your house. :-)

    Its good that you learn new stuff but dont let the other stuff fall under dust.

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  4. CT,
    That's why I took up another hobby, geology. Just in case I start loosing from her. . .

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