Self Taught Chess

Hey, is santibasti here (@BakingHorses) with my first post.

I'm totally new in this of make a chess blogs, but I think that this could be fun and really entertaining, so don't be too serious with me.

Actually what I want to do is push myself to take chess seriously, and try to achieve the highest level that I can. So I want to make a list and share with all of you and maybe, (if you haven't been bored), comment and give some tips and advices about how to train consistently and better.

GOALS

• Develop new and consistent habits to train chess.
• Train chess 3-5 hours at day for the rest of the year.
• Improve my physical strenght as my endurance.
• Reach 2300 elo points in December.

So, those are my goals. And yeah, I know, maybe those goals are really hard ones, but it's ok for me, because if I make my best, what is the worse thing that could happen? I mean, even if I don't reach those goals, my improvement is guarenteed. And that is my main goal: Improve.

First of all I want to talk about me. I'm a 18 yo player from Venezuela, where exist an incredible and tense political, humanitarian and economical crisis, where basically is hard to life if you don't have great contacts, political or economic, so yes, living of chess is not a great way to live. 

So, I cannot pay a Diamond account yet, because I don't have a PayPal account, but it don't really interest me, I could, but don't want. I love to read books, and I want to improve just using it and playing training games at Chess.com or Lichess.org. 

One of my great defects is that I procranstinate a lot, mainly in my social media or playing blitz. So today, I will try to put my rating highest as I can, and for the entire september month I won't play blitz or bullet, and just going to train with my books and play slow games (Like 3-5 per week)

A really great and instructive book.

And is not the only book that I thought to read. 

The great (and my favorite player) Fischer.

Tactics is the most important thing.

And so on. 

I have a lot of books, for example tow of the books that helped me to reach my actual leve (1800-1900 idk  ) were Pearls of Azerbaijan and Grandmaster Lessons I by Boris Gulko. I want to read the second and third volume, but by recommendation of an IM I going to focus in my calculation skills and how to value a position with the Fischer books, using the Stoyko exercise (see Dan Heisman blog).

My worst part are the openings, I'm trying to learn simple and playables lines in the main openings, like the Panov-Botvinnik Attack against the Caro-Kann, or the KIA against the French. 

But I have to say that I going to build a serious chess repertoire. I am too insecure about my tactics, calculation and position assessment to get into complicated variants of the Vinawer or Advance Variation in the Caro-Kann. However I plan to use the books of the GrandMaster Series written by Parimarjan Negi, where he faces all the openings mentioned above and also all the variants of the Sicilian (I, II, III) and study them slowly and in detail between now and December.

This week I'll being posting my trainings, analysis, and books, toghts, and even chess history.

Wish me luck

Regards