Supercharge my chess - day 13
Today I continue to write about my daily experiences in the 21 days to Supercharge your chess course.
You can read about the past days:
Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, Day 5, Day 6, Day 7, Day 8, Day 9,
My goals:
1. I want to study chess in an organized way. I hope 21 days of organized study of the course will build my habit to create and follow my study plans after the course finished.
2. I want to win a Titled tuesday tournament in 2016
3. I want to win a Death match in 2016
4. I want to be one of the top 10 rated blitz (3-5 minutes game) player on chess.com
The structure of the study of Day 13 was the following:
- Theoretical section:
Today I studied a method which helps to find the best move in complex positions.
There is a 3 step method which helps to calculate faster, because we will calculate the important lines and not losing much time on unimportant variations.
Step 1: Calculate all checks, because they are the most dangeous treats. They can lead to checkmates ot material loss.
Step 2: Look for captures, because they can win material and then the game.
Step 3: Search for attacking moves. Moves which lease to checks, captures or improving the position of an opponent piece, or they can change the pawn structures.
Master game:
In the game between Euwe and Keres, white got a much better position. Strategically white has a much better position, so black needed to act quickly to create tactical counterplay.
I annotated the full game:
Tactics:
Pins and x-ray motives were the key in the tactics today.
I show you my 2 favourite puzzles:
Endgame:
Today puzzle was very hard. I figured out the key idea, but I was not patient enough to find the solution.
I analysed the position:
Conclusions of the Day 13 of the
1. We learnt the 3 steps method to find the best move in a complicated position.
2. In today's master game we learnt about quick tactical counterplay versus the positional advantages,
3. I solved puzzles about pins and the x-ray.
4. The pawn endgame showed how can win block the opponent king and use the reserve moves smart.
I decided to follow how much time I use every day for the study and monitor the total time used too.
Today I used 60 minutes. The total time I used until today is 10 hours and 44 minutes. You can follow the daily training times in this --> document
I wish you enjoyed today's tips and exerciseses of the course! I was happy to show you my experiences about the Day 13 of the 21 days to Supercharge your chess course
