Good tournament
I played a tournament lately. I played 7 games.
1 win, 1 loss and 5 endgames. I managed to screw up all endgames. 2 potential wins became a draw and 3 potential draws were lost. I spilled 5 x 0.5 = 2.5 points there.
So that is very good news! It were all better or equal endgames. I consider it a luxury problem to screw those up. By not preparing my endgames I took that into account beforehand.
I have now the difficult task to decide to follow the revelation from the previous post or to work on my endgames.
I deem that both take half a year to think through the matter and 1.5 year to absorb it.
Thinking through is a system 2 task. And I cannot split my focus in two. That simply doesn't work.
I'm inclined to start with working out a framework with positional scenarios around the invasion. It is a big task, and I already see the contours of it. It will be great!
The consequence is that when I play a tournament at the end of the year, I will again drop points in the endgame. In an ideal world there will be less endgames due to the positional framework. But since I will not have it absorbed by then, that might not be the case at all.
I'm in dubio.
The holes in my bucket that I fixed the past two years apparently culminate in more good endgames against higher rated opposition. Which comes a bit as a surprise.
ReplyDeleteI have done some thinking. This tournament clearly points in the direction of endgames. Sofar I have always integrated my findings in a tournament in the next training step.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is, that I don't know what my investigation of the invasion is going to bring me. I expect a lot of it, but I don't know.
As a result of previous tournaments, I altered my openings. I'm quite happy with the openings I play now. I realize that all 5 good or equal endgames I got are to a certain degree caused by my opening choice. I now realize that this is true for the games I play at the club too.
Today I saw a video of Capablanca. And I realized that the endgame leads to an extra weapon. You can give the opponent the choice. Trade and get an endgame, or don't and get an attack. This will make my play much more relaxed.
So I guess I have made my choice.