ChessireKot

Pls don't prep, I don't study openings enough as it is! If you're here to prep, at least read this so I get to waste a little bit of your time . Love chess (obviously), favorite players to watch are Andrew Tang, Abdusattorov, Dubov, Pragg, Rapport, and Firouzja. 

New chess goals for 2024 (tried to focus more on study plan than rating bc i plateaued for so long in 2023 ):

- Consistently study + annotate master games
- Significantly improve at blindfold chess (1800+ blindfold lichess rating, comfortable seeing lines & board in head via consistent training on app (10 minutes on bus daily) - context: my visualization seems to be way worse than a lot of players my rating naturally, as unfortunate as that is
- Know 1. e4 e5 openings until move 10 + plans in >=2/3 otb games
- Feel more comfortable playing against d4
- Rating goal (rough hope, alright if I don't reach because could be a stretch as I learned the hard way in 2023) -> 1950 USCF by end of year, 2400 chess.com blitz 
- Stop feeling nervous when playing higher rated players (expert and above), get some results on the board vs top juniors in my state and/or titled player
- Get better at bughouse

Will occasionally check in with these goals and see how I progress (prob around every month). May also add to them as necessary. 

Updates as of June 2024:

- Should work on developing better practice schedule -- did lots of chesstempo + improved rating by 200ish points over the last few months which is great but do puzzles in big chunks rather than consistently which isnt ideal. also spend too long on individual ct puzzles prob might wanna do more blitz puzzles or smth. 

- Same for annotating master games, have done decent amount esp. in english opening but need to do more consistently. 

- Improved general blindfold visualization somewhat, no longer sticking to as strict of a regimen but worked thru part of blindfold chess book w/ puzzles. should try playing more actual blindfold games soon ig

- Reached 2300 blitz (finally)!! Took me a while but after a few highs and tilts I'm there and we'll see whether I can sustain it/continue gaining in the near future. Suspecting that 2400 will be tough but I've given myself half a year at least to gain 100 points so it shouldn't be impossible at least. 

- Reached 1830 USCF ish at around peak, feel like I'm playing better but sell/troll in too many of my games w/ higher rated opponents. no longer as stressed though just feel tired and/or demotivated sometimes when playing (am not careful enough in calculation as result). 

- Recently beat 1800+ Fide rated player with the grob (lol don't ask)

- Feels like my bughouse is getting a bit better (did some crazyhouse puzzles, watched some bughouse). just doing that part of it for fun tho. 

Now for some about me:

Favorite music: Pink Sweat$, Boywithuke (got into his top 0.1 percent spotify listeners this year yay), Juice WRLD (esp. freestyles & Doomsday, so a lot of the rap stuff), Cordae, Shawn Mendes (lol, if you couldn't tell my music taste is actually just all over the place), FINNEAS (love his songs lately idk esp Let's Fall in Love for the Night and Only a Lifetime)

Favorite teas if anyone cares: Cinnamon Spice, Sencha green, any brand Masala Chai (also like iced teas)

Recently joined the coffee addiction team because of my horrible sleep schedule lol

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Last tourney's USCF results:

I would say check my blog but havent been updating :/ need to start doing this, will prob try over the summer since more time

If you actually wanna know my last results because I'm horrible at the blog, currently hovering around 1815 USCF after dropping a bit from 1830 peak. Playing pretty consistently (~1-2 events per month) will see how it progresses. feeling more confident but not showing in results rip

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Chess gods please no tilt

"It would be brilliant if it was not losing on the spot" - Agadmator

Heyyy it's the end thanks for reading, have a nice day!