Who? What? Why?

Who am I? What? How? Why? These are all interesting questions. In a murder mystery game, the short answer would have been "Mr. Rocheleau in the living room with a chessboard".  Unfortunately, this answer remains insignificant.

I must admit that I decided to create this blog for the selfish purpose of training and improving at chess.  I have read several times that an important step in the learning process was to take the time to analyze your own games, evaluate your moves, plans, alternatives or variations and compare them to those played by grand masters. Chess.com offers analysis tools and a game evaluation report that I am already using when the game is over. Unfortunately, too often I give in to curiosity and read this report soon after the game ends. I believe I am throwing away great learning opportunities in this way.

Have you ever look at a newspaper and tried to play the game of finding the differences between 2 pictures? To succeed, one must observe the images carefully and compare them in order to identify the differences. It is a task that requires concentration and time. What would have happened if someone else took the paper before you and highlighted all the differences. For my part, my brain would have had a hard time concentrating and ignoring the free hints. It would choose to be lazy and would simply confirmed the highlighted answers. I think it reacts the same way when I look at the game report. It overlooks the mistakes and blunders, neglects the tactics and alternative moves and fails at grasping the concepts.

In the coming days and weeks, I intend to publish posts about my own analysis of a few games that I will have played by then. I will be more then happy if you find them informative or entertaining.

I invite you to read my coming posts, be part of this odyssey where we will probe my mind. I'm sure we'll see some awesome tactics, struggles for space advantage, races to see who castle first. Stay alert and equip yourself properly, you will not want to get lost in the labyrinth that is my mind. I think we could very well witness dubious moves, phenomenal blunders or even see some ghosts. I hope to be able to unearth some treasures and to live experiences that will allow me to surpass myself in this chess adventure.

Une traduction française de ce billet ce trouve ici.