Welcome to Day 2 of 365. Today and for the next few days, we will be look at the 1944 First Category Tournament in Tbilisi, USSR, in which Petrosian ended up earning his first Candidate Norm and finishing with a score of 8.5/11 which was go...
Happy May 1st everyone! I hope you and your family are all healthy and safe. I have committed with my wife to do a task every day, for an entire year. My wife, an artist, is going to draw/paint a sunflower each day, and I have committed...
When I set the goal of becoming a top 100 player in the State of Georgia, I figured I could handle the studying aspect (I mean, I have a degree in English and Latin...). So I sat down, grab a pen and some paper, and started wri...
USCF U1450 Rapid Tournament – April 24, 2020 What an absolute awful night of chess this turned out. I have been wanting to play in the Chess.com’s USCF Rapid tournament for some time but have found it difficult considering it’s...
USCF U1450 Tournament – May 15, 2020 From my understand, the first U1450 rated Blitz tournament that Chess.com has been able to host. Ideally, I try to avoid such tournaments as I learn more from playing players much higher than my rating, and I ...
So yesterday I published by well thought out, yet very flexible goals for 2020 in terms of chess, and now that we are half-way through the month of May, I decided the best course of action would be to release my goals for this month. The f...
I am well aware that of the time of this writing, it's already April 14. However, the beginning to 2020 was full of a lot of personal conflicts that forced me to take a step back from the game, and focus on other areas, but alas, my life has retur...
Overall, I would have to say that this month has been a success. I have spent more time than in the past reviewing lost games, and figuring out where exactly it was that I would fall behind in pieces or position. I also spent a great deal of time ...
Sloth ThoughtsJuly 12, 2017 The Idea of Grit after 30 There are a few things you should know about me if any of this is going to make sense. I am awful at chess I would consider myself one with a low Grit score (look it up if you don’t know,...
December 2015 Goals I have tried this in the past but it has only last a month or so, but now that I’m completed with (most likely) all of my college courses, I will have more time to dedicate to both chess, and this chess blog. Come February...
So April has ended and it's about time for my monthly review about how it went. I have taken deep thought and as you'll notice, I have both added, and deleted some of my goals. As you can also see, I have given myself a chess grade of a 'B+'. I'...
As tomorrow will start the 2nd quarter of 2012, I’ve decided to do what I did 2 years ago on Chess.com, and that is to make a set of goals to (hopefully) be completed by the end of the year. As you can clearly see from my post 2 ye...
No, while I'm not going to read the 'Idiot's Guide to Chess' (although at times I'm sure I could use some of the information, I have decided to make some goals for the remainder of the 2010 year. So far, this is what I've decided are my goals. 1....
Today I suffered a terrible defeat against my father, manly because I was too lazy to pre-set a conditional move, and also because when I made the move this morning I was still asleep and was NOT thinking. Lesson learned...hasn't too far away fro...
