The Vukovic gap

 I retired in Januari. Since then, I have mainly been busy to organize my life in accordance with the new situation (planting geraniums). I played my games on two clubs, but besides that, I haven't studied new material. Although I maintain the current stuff. Yesterday, I subscribed for a 9 day round robin tournament in July. And now the question is: how am I going to prepare for the tournament the coming months?

The last tournament in december had a clear conclusion: 1/3 of my points I lose by tactics while 2/3 I lose by molesting endgames. Losing should read as not winning. 

If I would worry about points, then focusing on the endgame would be the logical path to go. But I don't consider endgames as being problematic. It is only a lot of work. And even that remains to be seen. My problem is that I lack an endgame plan most of the time. And without a plan, tactics have no direction.

The past weeks I have been quite successful as white. I won three times in a row with a bishop sacrifice on h7. Today I stumbled on a video that treats the attacking plans in the Colle. And I decided to focus the coming months on these plans as preparation for the tournament. The plans fill up the gap between the opening and the kingside attack. The gap that I dubbed the Vukovic gap.

Screwing up a won endgame is a luxury problem. I will tackle that problem in due course.