Game 2 PGN with commentators analysis
Game 1 PGN With Commentators Annotations
Here's game 1.
How to Blow a Nice Opening 101
No excuses, my opponent played well and just beat me. It's always a learning experience though. And if losing didn't suck, everybody would do it. "I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been tr...
"Your Phones Ringing, Dude."
I know what you’re thinking, two posts in one day? How do we deserve such knowledge and wisdom as has been granted to us twice on this third day of November in the year of our lord, 2013? All I can say is, I care about my fans. They’re like fam...
I'm Happy With It
I just played this game this morning and I like it. I did make one mistake that could have cost me a knight for a pawn but only one mistake of that level is pretty good for me. It feels like a little progress. I've also changed my review proces...
An Ugly Win
I'm posting this because I made some really bad errors and if you can't share bad errors with your friends, who can you share them with? ;-) Aside from my openings, end games and middle games, I need to continue to work on identifying threats as ...
Payback's a...well, it's, uh, no fun
Wow, I thought I was doing much better than I was until I lost the queen. Apparently my position evaluation technique (or lack there of) could use some work. It was a fun game though, a good challenge. The next time I play a 1600+ I'll win. Ma...
Good Times
I keep hearing people say closed games are boring. I can't understand that, this was one of the most fun games I've had in awhile. I didn't play as well as I wanted to tonight, still going too fast. It was only a win because of a blunder by my o...
Death By Stupidity
I thought I played pretty well in this game, at least compared to a lot of my past games. It wasn't complete stupidity that cost me the game, unfortunately I was competing against someone who knows how to play chess. But if they didn't know, I t...
Complete Lack of Concentration
Knowing Why You Lost is 37.2% of the Battle
Trying something new. They say every move you make should have a reason. I decided to start recording them to better analyze the game. As you can see, it's helping a great deal! Well, maybe not a great deal, but I just started.
On learning and Stuff...
I learned a few things over the last couple days. First, I get frustrated because I work really hard and it seems like I don’t seem to get any better. I have a medical issue that causes short term memory loss, so it’s an extra challenge, b...
I flied? No, you falled.
I feel like my game plan lately has been to get a decent position and then do everything I can to destroy it. Still learning though...
Ugh
It's very possible that I'm insane. I just played my first DHLC slow game. Slow, meaning the game starts with a lot of time and ends without much. At least in theory. When I'm playing, I end up with more time than I started with. The whole po...
Nakamura over Ivanchuck, leads Paris Grand Prix by 1/2
Pgn of game, plus Caruana-Gelfand. All lines and comments are GM Tiviakov's commentary.
A Visualization Experiment
I’m not the most right brained person. When somebody says to close your eyes and picture something in your mind, I picture blackness. I may have come up with a way to fix this that won’t take any time away from other chess studies. First, I’m ta...
A Boring Post of a Crappy Game
Here's another game. I had planned on only reviewing losses initially, but it's actually helpful to see why I should have lost as well. Now for some thought process training. Having fun... Dave
Nakamura - Bacrot 1-0
Updated: Here's the Nakamura / Bacrot game with commentary and variations by GM Tiviakov except for a couple houdini's thrown in but always marked. I've updated it with the press conference comments and variations. Good times. Dave
Headaches About Headaches
What I’d like to do is study and play chess 14 hours a day. Why? Because it’s fun. But I can’t, because when I think too hard for too long, I get a headache. When this happened yesterday, I got to thinking. Why does thinking hard cause a he...
Wang, Hao - Caruana
Here's the second game of the day. The learning part is over, now to the training / evaluating part. Chess Mentor on tactics then a slow game played and evaluated. Damn this is fun. I'm still wondering what Ivanchuck said while leaving the com...
Dominguez - Nakamura
Here are the notes I took on this game. Nakamura's comments were pretty interesting on moves 23 and 25. Also, something wierd happened with Ivanchuck, I didn't understand the language but he had been helping with the commentary after his game w...
My Blunders Were Better Than Usual
I didn't drop a piece. Most of my moves were safe. I still played like crap, but a slightly better crap. I have learned that win's that should have been losses aren't as much fun as wins that should have been wins, but they're definitely bett...
Double Triple Zugzwang (with an extra order of zwischenzug, hold the mayo...)
In reply to a question on "the thought process." Hey, I've been working on this a lot lately because it's my biggest weakness. First, I would highly recommend coach Dan Heisman's website (danheisman.com). Click on Novice Nook articles then "sub...
Chess with Broomsticks
It's always good to start with a loss. Wait, what? Yes, I wan't to get better at chess, not win chess games online. Losing games correctly seems to be a big part of getting better. "Correctly", you ask? If you don't review the game, then you ...
