After all your helpful input, I've started modifying my plan - although, as it should be it is a work in progress. Anyway, here's a couple changes I've tried over the last week (thanks for the suggestions!) that focus on the weaknesses I came up...
Recently my chess regiment has not been working. I'm putting in a good 25 hours a week but haven't been getting any better, but possibly even worse? At my last tournament, I went 0 for 3 all because of blunders although playing in a short time con...
The Real way to Play Chess (US Open Day 3) Previous: Turning a Tournament Around (US Open Day 2) After 2 good games that lost, and 1 poor game that I won. I decided that a better combination would be to win good games - What a novelty! So here ...
Turning a Tournament Around (US Open day 2) Previous: Starting the Trail to GM (US Open Day 1) So I was a little dissapointed after the round 1 loss where I missed any crucial things, although I felt overall my play was pretty good. I needed to...
Starting the Trail to GM - US Open Day 1 Hello everyone! My friends have been asking me to keep them up to date with my chess and I decided that a blog might be the easiest way - so here it goes! I'll keep everyone up to date on my tournaments ...
I managed a win as black against IM Milanovic Vojislav! I didn't feel like I made any amazing moves - I just started squeezing the position and he made a few slight positional miscalculations (he was playing 30 games after all). I gained a nice ...
The first game took 2.5 hours and I thought I did played well - although it seems like it was drawish but he went for a win and blundered? He was 15 wins - 5 losses, with mine being the last game by 20 minutes. In this one he flagged on time.....
This is where I keep the multitude of general reccomendation I hear: Anonymous Advice: Dpreuss' Diabolical Doctrines My Ideas 1) Choose a current GM, and follow their tournament games (Magnus Carlsen)2) Go to a Master's game and go 5 moves ...
Dpruess' Diabolical Doctrines~ 1) Tactics Trainer everyday! About 10 minutes or 2 missed ones. Go over the missed ones at least 3 times to really learn it.2) Analyze 10 of my games & look for weaknesses in playstyle3) Before making a move, s...
Improvement Ideas (my weaknesses) - I'm way too overagressive, I'll push pawns on both sides of the board, and focus on exploiting the opponents weaknesses, ignoring the multitude of weaknesses I create.- I play 1. b4, and need to learn more op...
I didn't understand so many moves, that I would have guessed this to be a game with a lot of miscalculations by 1600's not a very strong game by 2600's... I felt black definately was winning until 13. d5 and white started winning again around 20...
