Wormholes in my bucket

The last tournament I identified three areas where I suck:

• Openings (150)
• Endgame (150)
• Vukovic gap (250-500)

Estimated maximum rating gain between parenthesis.

Openings

This weekend, I analysed my failures in the opening of the past 1.5 year. I worked out the necessary improvements and put them in a database with the Chess Openings Wizard (COW, former Bookup), so I can train them.

Endgame

Endgames are currently on the backburner.

Vukovic gap

I approach the kingside assault from two (three) sides, the beginning and the end.

• Positional play (beginning)
• Mates (end)
• Endgame transitions (end)

It turns out that with building a positional framework, I opened a can of worms. Currently I have tens of XMind maps, and try to make something consistent out of them. It doesn't come easy. While working on color complexes, I stumbled on another endpoint: endgame transitions. I cannot predict where matters are heading.

In July, I have my next tournament. At least I will have fixed my openings by then.