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As I Understand the position
GrizwoldZed’s report on chess activities
Issue No 6
1/10/2025
Join a Club
The Chess.com Daily Game chess tournament Report
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# My personal status F Still running with the pack.
>>> I’m in 4th place now with a score of 12-3.
Seven players in my group are still playing.
Commentary: I still have seven games going on in this tournament. Two of my games are going badly. Yet I will play on.
è IDEA: join a chess club. I have registered to play a match (at 2nd board) in the Knights Chess club -vs- King’s Fury, beginning January 19th. Join up if you want to play.
I currently have twelve wins listed to three losses. In all my losses I resigned and congratulated my opponent. The wins were all by timeout. What’s up?
Online playing tips: Consider the time… on daily games don’t time out! Most OTB tournaments consider leaving without resigning in poor taste.
It’s bad chess etiquette.
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Cartoon of the week
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My personal Training Logbook
I am entering all my chess games into my personal database and recording all my thoughts and variations there. When the game is done, my analysis will be nearly finished.
>> So far, my progress in endgame study has gone like this:
(1) basic mates. (2) B+N mate (3) K+P vs K (4) Q vs P (5) R+P vs R
and now I am studying the very difficult Q vs R ending.
>> Every day, I begin with endgame drills with what I already know, then study more on what I’ve listed above.
Training Log:
1/8/25 60min chess puzzles
1/8/25 30min Endgames, Q vs rook
1/8/25 1hr 45min study Master game Alekhine-Bazza, Budapest, 1922
1/9/25 30min chess puzzles
1/9/25 30min Endgames, K+P, R+P
1/9/25 60min study Master game Alekhine-Sterk, Budapest, 1922
1/10/25 30min Endgames, K+P, R+P
1/10/25 30min study Master game Alekhine-Sterk, Budapest, 1922
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Resources
(1) Chess.com (number one best so far)
(2) Zedwaldo chess blog (my other chess blog)
(3) The Week in Chess
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