Vision - Mission - Goals - Objectives- Some discussions for those who like to chat

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Vision - Mission - Goals - Objectives- Some discussions for those who like to chat

Vision: To be the best chess destination for South Africans to get into the Chess Structures and rating system. TSA Club offer solutions on LiChess.org as well.

Mission: To create an environment for members to play, learn and share

Goals: To grow and become better chess players

Objectives: Help each other better certain aspects of our chess. Motivate each other to make targets with Puzzles, Ratings for different formats etc. From time to time look at players where you can give some basic pointers where they can improve. Randomly pick players rated less than you and give 1 or 2 things they can do to improve.

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My Chessa Rating is around 1300.

I do not often play tournaments. I want to play much more and see what my rating kick out.

I also try to work through some Yusupov "Orange" books. I have done the build and now busy with the boost...

That might lift my chess to 1400/1500...

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I don't have a Chessa rating yet (hoping that will kick in after playing another tournament on Monday or Tuesday?). On Chess.com I'm in the 1400s for daily and rapid, and fluctuating quite a bit between low and high 1200s in blitz. I have been improving at a good pace since I started studying the game semi-seriously in June (I've gained around 200 points in all formats since then), and my goal is to reach 1500 in rapid and daily by the end of the year. Don't have a definite goal for blitz yet, but I would like to get my blitz a bit closer to my level in the other formats. I'm quite inconsistent as a fast player.

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I have done this Blog at some stage and drew some comparisons between Chess.com Ratings and Chess SA ratings of known players... So will be interesting what Chessa Rating will be kicked out...

https://www.chess.com/blog/Malan77/ratings-chess-com-vs-chess-south-africa-rating-system

CHESSA = 0.726 BLITZ + 337.9

CHESSA = 0.857 RAPID + 125.14

I have a Blitz of: 1323 ---> Chessa Predicted = 1298.4

I have a Rapid of: 1402 ---> Chessa Predicted = 1326.7

So for me it is very mcuh a good prediction of where my "form" was when I last played online...

Your Chess.com Rapid and Blitz very similar to mine so an estimate of Chessa 1300 will be a good one. We will see in a couple of weeks.... Ratings do take a while to settle out.

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Intriguing post. Time will tell happy.png

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Update on my improvement: back in August I shared with you that I wanted to pass 1500 in chess.com rapid and daily ratings by the end of 2020. Earlier this December I did indeed break 1500 in rapid, and actually broke 1600 in daily happy.png my blitz is still lagging, as I haven't taken it too seriously and tend to handle time pressure very badly, and I haven't been as active in tournies during November and December as before, because of a heavy workload as a student and teacher, but I look forward to continuing to participate in TSA tournies in 2021 happy.png

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In 2021 the TSA Blitz Tourneys will increase slightly in time control.

The 3+2 will become 5+2.

The Tornelo 5+2 will become 8 +2 .

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This is good news. A little more thinking time will make the games, and the post-game analysis, more beneficial for those of us who want to improve.

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The method behind my madness wink.png

From the start of lockdown I aimed to have only rapids during the week, with the idea that the regions will cover the weekends with standard chess.

I ended up expanding into Blitz, especially for those who were not used to playing Swiss Tournaments, but also to just have some quick tournaments.

I cannot see me lengthening rapids, because the limited time during the week.

I am glad to lengthen the Blitz to give everyone a bit more game time.

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Understood happy.png the 10+5 rapid time control on Lichess is a nice one. You can play some quality games without using up the entire day. But the longer blitz time controls will be appreciated happy.png