Documenting my chess improvement journey 20220309
Hi anyone who reads this 
I've decided to document my chess improvement journey a bit in the hope that by publishing my training games I will force myself to try harder. My current focus is on reducing the number of mistakes I make. I still hang simple tactics fairly often and I feel like until I stop losing games by making avoidable errors there isn't much point in focussing on anything other than error reduction.
I might talk some more about some of the training techniques I'm using in later posts, essentially I am trying to change my habitual way of thinking to one where I am more thorough in considering how my opponent might respond to the move I want to play before I play it.
Finally some notes on the opponent and the opening...
- I am going to play the chess.com bots over and over
- When I get to +5 against a bot I will move up a bot
- My plan is to publish every shameful loss and heroic win with some light annotations
- I am starting with antonio because when I try hard I always beat him but when I don't focus I normally lose
- I am playing the really odd Anderson opening (1 a3) as white (haven't decided what to play as black) for 2 reasons
- It will hopefully get the bots out of book
- It feels like this opening could transpose in a lot of ways (e.g. it could look like a reversed Sicilian like here, it could look like an e4 e5 game, it could be like a d4 opening etc) which will longer term hopefully be educational to me
This felt like a lucky win in game 1, e4 was certainly a mistake especially since I had long planned on e3.
Score VS Antonio +1
