Fritz!

Fritz 11 came in the mail today! Now I'll finally have a decent database to use, engine to analyse with, and a year's free subscription to playchess for lots of blitzing fun.

I'm trying to get my gameload down to zero as quickly as possible. Afterwhich I'll start ten new games and start practicing my planning and strategic skills, consulting "the amateur's mind" move by move.

Chess tactics server practice is going as planned, I'm up to 900 tries with a rating that stays around 1400, with a peak of 1425. My accuracy is around 68%, lots of room for improvement!