Vegetablevoice's 30-day Challenge

'cuz why not? My goal is to get to 1600 daily rating before my birthday in 2023 - I've been stuck for a while and would like to move forward. This is also my first year as a chess.com premium member, so I'm kinda jumping in with both feet - I'm hoping this kind of structure will be helpful.

The first week:

1. Join the club. Done!
2. Play a bot.
3. Take a Lesson.
4. Watch a video.
5. Complete 3 puzzles.
6. Play a 5+5 game.
7. Play 3-minute puzzle rush.
8. Post a forum update.

1600 daily - Let's go! 

Day 2 - played Tomas-the-bot. This morning, I blundered a rook - twice. It was maybe time to take a break after that. A few rounds of Puzzle Rush confirmed that I'm having a blind spot with Queens on diagonals. This evening, I returned to Tomas and won - a few mistakes, but no blunders.

That was a very solid game against Tomas. I like how you took the material when he blundered and continued to play solid in the conversion process.

Thanks! On review I noticed a lot of places where I had better moves, but relatively few where I risked giving the game away.

Day 3 is supposed to be a lesson, but I'm out of lessons for the moment (I think they reset tomorrow). So instead I watched Top 8 Chess mistakes, which is a handy little list. Most of them I don't do (I learned "control the center" and "don't bring your queen out too early" when I first picked up the game), and "watch out for traps" is so vague as to be useless. But as a quick-n-dirty checklist to guide review, I could see it being helpful.

On Day 4 my lessons reset, so I did the intermediate lessons on Using Pawns, Having Your  Pieces Work Together, and Pawn Promotion (which were supposed to be Day 3). 

Day 5 - more than 3 puzzles! (Also won a daily game against a guy who swept me in a tournament last year!)

Day 6: my first 5+5 game.