coriollis' beginner study plan

W6D4 (Blitz):

• Daily  (~3 mins)
• Puzzles  (67%) (11, 16, 15) (~ 1h)
• Live games:
  • https://www.chess.com/a/QAWLdvteq9rE (win)
    • After losing a rook in the opening I activated my pieces as fast as possible to put pressure on the opponent and won.
  • https://www.chess.com/a/yCcn8LMUq9rE (draw)
    • Must double-check for captures!
    • Must hunt down pawn in th endgame

W6D5(Blitz):

No time to write it down but all good

Congrats on 4th place in your blitz tournament! Did you beat any higher rated players?

A couple of them, yes

Noice!

Week 6 overview:

Stats:

•  Rapid: 1021 (=)
•  Blitz: 811 -> 861 (+50)
•  Daily: 1183 -> 1249 (+66)
•  Puzzles: 1829 -> 1925 (+96)

Nice. Felt a very good blitz flow at the end of the week.

W7D2 (Rapid):

• Daily 
• Puzzles 
• Live games:
  • https://www.chess.com/a/2GNxFCPcSq9rE (win)
    • Must be wary of letting my knights come under pressure when pinned through holes in the center. A move like c6/c3 can be effective against those.

W7D5 (Rapid):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:
• Live games:
  • https://www.chess.com/a/2E1mq8mjCq9rE (loss)
    • Misplayed the opening trying the Petrov. Now I'll remember the correct way to defend the knight.
  • https://www.chess.com/a/2GcWVmRBtq9rE (win)
    • Will analyze this game tomorrow
      • https://lichess.org/study/fzFQrpwV (chapter 1)
        • Watch out for center pawn fork tactics
        • Remember to check if moves remove defenders from pieces or pawns
        • Do not get my rook locked away from the rest of the game

Because I had to take time off, I'll pretend this is still W7

W7D3 (Rapid):

• Daily 
• Puzzles: 
• Live games:
  • • •  
  • https://www.chess.com/a/VKs5GtwQq9rE (win)
    • To be fair, I hadn't realized my opponent was 100 points below me, but it was fun for me nonetheless. I've made sure my challanges' range is (-100, +200) for the next one.

W7D5 (Rapid):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:  (12, 11, 17) (41% oof)
• Live games:
  • https://www.chess.com/live#g=6540099584 (win)
    • Vienna Gambit op

W7D6 (Rapid):

• Daily 
• Puzzles: 
• Study

Week 7 overview:

Stats:

•  Rapid: 1021 -> 1069 (+48)
•  Blitz: 861 (=)
•  Daily: 1249 -> 1248  (-1)
•  Puzzles: 1925 -> 1954 (+29)

Cool

W8D1 (Blitz):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:  (but really struggled with slow tactics, must get into the habit again)
• Games

W8D2 (Blitz):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:  (14, 14, 19!) (62%)
• Games:
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/6580585736 (loss)
    • Watch the backrank!
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/6580722432 (win)
    • Must check if pieces are safe when moving forwards. Sometimes an alternate route is better.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/6580891048 (win)
    • Learned how to play against this kind of setup from GothamChess.
  • https://www.chess.com/a/39ipAT1CSq9rE (loss)
    • Must exploit f-pawn movements when the king is in the center
    • Must reroute knights to the best outpost
    • Must double check when considering using an enemy pawn as an umbrella.

W8D4 (Blitz):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:  (16, 14, 12; bad day) (Started reading Seirawan's tactics book)
• Games:
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7418495069 (win)
    • Messed up my opening preparation, locking in my bishop (the engine liked it, though).
    • Gave up a central pawn trying to fix the mistake, not good.
    • Adapted to the new position and created important threats.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7419126063 (loss)
    • Wasted too much time thinking what to do once I got a good position.
    • Missed an opportunity to get a huge space advantage.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7420264645 (win)
    • Struggled to convert the game quickly, but managed it at the end.
  • https://www.chess.com/a/2Ua98jSerq9rE (loss)
    • Gave away many pawns on accident.
    • Missed a chance to trade opponent's active bishop for my knight.
    • Miscalculated a tactic

W8D5 (Blitz):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:  (continud reading Seirawan's book) (32%??) (18,16,14)
• Games:
  • https://www.chess.com/a/2zQAW5JASq9rE (win)
    • I'm not scanning the whole board and I'm getting tunnel vision, this game I got lucky.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7503777423 (loss)
    • Played the opening mechanically and missed a chance to play e5 instead of e6, not taking the center.
    • Gave away pawns hoping to get an attack.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7505464265 (loss)
    • Did not calculate and got a bishop trapped
  • https://www.chess.com/a/2aA2sknKxq9rE (win)
    • Again sacrificed a piece for a miscalculated attack. Got lucky

I'm developing acute tunnel vision. Maybe I have to force myself to play slower.

W8D6 (Blitz):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:  (continud reading Seirawan's book) (14, 18, 16)
• Games:
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7608141879 (win)
    • Hung a piece, did not check what threats my opponent was making.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7609333235 (win)
    • A clean game. The Scandi ain't got nothing on me.
  • https://www.chess.com/game/live/7609886475 (win)
    • Ouch.
  • https://www.chess.com/a/Hwgk3JMCq9rE (win)
    • I'm messing up the king's indian pretty bad. I will study it tomorrow.
    • Did not count attackers and defenders. Got lucky.

I'm playing on pure intuition. I need to balance it with calculation to get better.

Still, pretty nice to get all wins

W8D7 (Blitz):

• Daily 
• Puzzles:  (continud reading Seirawan's book) (15, 15, 15)
• Study: Started reading a KID book (skipped endgames because I've known the suggested ones for a while).

Week 8 overview:

Stats:

•  Rapid: 1069 ->1059 (-10), lost a friendly game vs GaussPi100 because of a dumb blunder.
•  Blitz: 861 -> 888 (+27), nice
•  Daily: 1248 -> 1285  (+37), nice
•  Puzzles: 1954 -> 1919 (-35), started reading Seirawan's tactics book to try to push above 2000.

Global Overview:

Day 0 to Week 8 stats:

•  Rapid: 988 -> 1059 (+71)
•  Blitz: 709 -> 888 (+179)
•  Daily: 1264 -> 1285 (+21)
•  Puzzles: 1686 -> 1919 (+233)

😉

!!!!!! SO GOOD !!!!!!