My New Chess.com Blog

Hello everyone.

My name is Mukesh and I like to play chess. I am currently 15 years old, and am studying in DP-1 of the IB curriculum. I am living in Fiji right now, and play in the chess tournaments that go on over here.

I am currently rated 1067 over the board. I know that this rating is not that much (It's actually very low ), but I really think that my playing level is higher. I am determined to improve as quickly as possible.

I have liked the game since I was 10, but only recently have gotten a lot of interest in it. But since the age of 10, I have been playing, and hence I know quite a few things. I know that my rating does not reflect that, but I have only played in 3 rated tournaments, and hopefully, as I play more, my rating will improve!

Chess in Fiji is currently developing, and there are quite a few tournaments that do happen, but not many of them are classical. Thankfully, Fiji has no coronavirus, so chess tournaments happen regularly. Nowadays, some online tournaments also occur, and I also play in those. I am currently playing in the Global Chess League and there is a planned match for Fiji against Nauru on Friday.

I want to start a new chess blog where I will be writing about my training along with general thoughts that I have on the game. I will also be providing updates on my progress and the tournaments that I played in. I will be posting at least once a week, and will try to get in some games to analyze each week, which I played. I will also be analyzing master games, and giving some of the positions that I use for study. I do not have an official chess coach now, and study by myself. Furthermore, I will just give some general thoughts about the game and tournaments going on! This will be a blog mainly about how I am trying to improve, but also about other things about chess!

Here are my chess.com stats:

I know that my puzzles rating is quite low, since I don't really use this account often for tactical training. My puzzles rating on my other account is 1927. Now onwards, I will be using this account actively for puzzle training. I will regularly update on how my stats are changing.

Here are some of the goals that I have for chess:

1. To be rated at least 2000
2. To be able to calculate 20 moves deep
3. To have a strong sense of positional understanding
4. To know at least 2 openings completely

In my opinion, crossing 2000 can be done as long as people work hard at it. After that, who knows...it depends a lot on the work one can put in.  This blog will help me to achieve a more structured training program than the one I have right now. It is hard to force oneself to focus on endgames when you are in the mood for tactical puzzles! 

I lost, but I felt that it was an important game for me as I was making a conscious effort to calculate a lot in this game. Please comment on the analysis so that I can improve upon it. I will be analyzing the remaining games of the tournament very soon. The last major tournament I played was a rapid tournament, but there were no notations, so I don't have those games!

I will see you guys in my next blog with chess training I will be doing and some more analysis! I hope you all enjoyed this one!