Applying logic
At Whitsuntide we played a tournament of 7 long otb games. I used the games to check my latest findings. It greatly reflects that my theoretical findings are confirmed in practical play. I scored 4 out of 7 with no draws. TPR was 1754. Winning by mistake. All games had in common that the only way to win them is when the opponent plays a suboptimal move. This means you cannot win a game by finding a move where your opponent has no answer to, but you have to play optimal moves yourself all along until your opponent makes a mistake. Be it a tactical or positional mistake. Your opponent has to defy logic in one way or another. Three areas of improvement. I found three areas to improve my chess in my games. Learning unknown territory. Replacing unfruitful opening lines. Applying logic. These three areas are not equal. The first two can be fixed relatively simple. Applying logic contains the real meat of the matter and has not an easy fix. Learning unknown territory. There are...