What is you chess resolution for the new year (2016)?

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DoctorMove
Mcfmover wrote:

Play in my first OTB, USCF rated tournament.  Not expecting much at all results wise, just want to experience the tournament environment, even if it means playing opponents not much older than my granddaughter.

Go for it Mcfmover! There is something about the OTB experience that is difficult to describe unless you experence it first hand, in the flesh. Let us know what happens! Smile

SpiritoftheVictory
OnceUponaCheckmate wrote:

Stop thinking about chess while driving, stop playing chess sneakily at work, stop playing chess at meal time with family, stop playing chess upon waking up and get to work earlier.

Wow! And I though I was too much into the game. :)

504kev
Raise my rating up to 1400
Conflagration_Planet

To suck even harder than I do now.

Karlar_Wilson

Try to get to 1200 before June.  

SJFG

My goal is to reach NM.

As for training, I intend to use less time doing things that don't really help me improve that much (too much blitz or bullet, browsing forums, too much opening study, etc) and focus more on serious improvement (slow games, reading books, solving (and I mean solving, not guessing) tactical problems, etc).

If I don't reach NM next year, I'll keep trying. It's fun to improve. I suppose one of my goals is just to play well and have fun playing.

DoctorMove
SJFG wrote:

My goal is to reach NM.

As for training, I intend to use less time doing things that don't really help me improve that much (too much blitz or bullet, browsing forums, too much opening study, etc) and focus more on serious improvement (slow games, reading books, solving (and I mean solving, not guessing) tactical problems, etc).

If I don't reach NM next year, I'll keep trying. It's fun to improve. I suppose one of my goals is just to play well and have fun playing.

Great resolution! Good luck! Smile

DoctorMove

Not that much time left to make your chess resolution(s) for the New Year!

Hope you all make the right moves in 2016!

MrFPS
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jlhn67
Happy new year
Skinnyhorse

     My resolution for chess to stop making my same old mistakes and start making NEW MISTAKES!

iMacChess

"My goal now is to play a lot more Chess. I feel I haven't played enough Chess." ~ Bobby Fischer🏁 (after saying this he never played an official game of Chess again) Hopefully I'll do better than that... 🎉2016🎊Resolution

MasterMatthew52

My goal is always to win

Ziryab

My resolution is to restore balance between my study of classic games and my use of my Informant subscription. See http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2015/12/year-in-review-2015.html for more detail. If you follow my blog, you can track my progress throughout the year.

Ziryab
ponz111 wrote:

Try not to get upset at one of my vote chess team mates who is a pain in the arse! 

"There is no try. Do or do not."

Yoda

RubiksRevenge

To actually play some longer time controls in Live chess, only been playing 5 min and 1 minute bullet for the last year so want to get into the 30 min rapid time control more. To start reading my large personal libray of openings and endgames books. I have had the same resolution for 5 years now but am a craeture of habit so don't hold out much hope of me changing.

DoctorMove
shkrelis_nemesis wrote:

So how's everybody's resolutions going so far?  I bet quite a few of you have failed already LOL.

I didn't actually have this list made up before the New Year, so they aren't resolutions per se, and I if fail so be it.  But so far this year I'm doing the following:

3 blitz games a day on lichess.org, so hopefully 20 a week and over 700 this year.  I like their 5/4 time limit -- I think it's hard to cheat unlike 10/0 on chess.com, but the increment helps.  BTW this is primarily for openings practice. 5 puzzles on chesstempo.com per day.  I like that they aren't timed, and that they aren't mostly checkmates but more realistic.  I've actually been doing these puzzles *after* the blitz games, and my my rating has jumped from 1700 to 1900.  Maybe that's also because in December I read the following: http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Tactics-puzzles-tournament-ebook/dp/B017BB9B8M/ Memorize 2 games a week (3.5 years ago when memorizing games from the 1960 Tal-Botvinnik match, I had a nice showing in the world open, finishing 6-3 just a half point out of the money, but two of the three losses being to the overall winner, and to the winner of the bottom half of the class) Play over 2 endgames per week from http://www.amazon.com/100-Endgames-You-Must-Know-ebook/dp/B00KQ35OPM -- I'm actually a little disappointed in this book's first two endgames, and not because they are so simple, but rather I thought the explanation could have been even clearer (also, after showing most endings with White as the side with the K+P vs. K, the last position of the second endgame shows Black with the pawn, and this reversal of the position in the diagram is disconcerting)

Besides the above I will playing other games and tournaments (for instance I want to win the class B section of the Southwest Class Championships next month)

Nice ideas and links! Smile Thank you and good luck with your resolutions! 

DoctorMove
Ziryab wrote:

My resolution is to restore balance between my study of classic games and my use of my Informant subscription. See http://chessskill.blogspot.com/2015/12/year-in-review-2015.html for more detail. If you follow my blog, you can track my progress throughout the year.

Excellent blog! Thanks and good luck with your resolutions! Smile

chess_stress_chess

To defeat Touya Akira.

MSteen

To actually read and study, cover to cover, at least 3 of Seirawan's books: Tactics, Strategy, and Endings. I've HAD them for years, but somehow osmosis has failed so far.