Thursday, April 14, 2016

Tic Tac

Today I reached a new All Time High at CT: 1791 (baseline 1700).
I don't know why. Of course I have been busy with developing and implementing a new though process the past weeks. Yet today I just did the exercises without any thinking about a thought process at all. It doesn't feel like I have become faster. It feels like the clock ticks slower.

Exercises to implement the new thought process seems to have boiled down to two things:
  • I consequently count the material before starting.
  • I estimate which targets are likely to be going to provide the wood to gain.

I'm still working on priorities though, but it remains quite complicated.

Tic Tac

6 comments:

  1. As long as you watch and/or controll your thinking , you run 2 programs on your processor. As soon you stop watching you gain more cpu-time but therefore possibly unlearn your thinking method
    Hint:
    You can count the material and decide about potential goals even BEFORE the computer makes it move. After the computer did make its move you should spend a second to see the changes done by the move.

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    1. Ah, ok, I thought it was my unconscious brain which was working its magic ;)

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  2. To really exercise your thought process I would recommend Stoyko exercises where the goal is accuracy, not speed. Once you have discovered your personal deficiencies with calculation, you can then focus your training to improve those things. For me it was not looking for all my opponent's defensive replies, and missing opportunities for myself several ply into a variation.

    After doing a lot of these exercises, my ratings on chess.com tactics trainer and chesstempo also improved.

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    1. The Stoyko exercise is much broader than tactics. For clarity I limit myself to tactics only. I'm not working on speed, I analyse my failures and try to adapt my thought process to prevent similar mistakes in the future.

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    2. You only do these exercises on tactical positions. Writing out your thoughts is the best way to find your faults, which is the first step in preventing those mistakes in the future.

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  3. My fun observation is that this blog is a multiyear Stoyko Exercise on how to improve your chess. 8)

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