Triple Witching
It's just after midnight as I have reached three significant milestones at once. First, I drove my ELO over 2100. In my last problem set tonight, I went over 2100 and stayed there despite dropping 7 points on the last problem (like I was gonna find the 7 moves Mikhail Tal made in 1962!). Yes, I am fully aware that this is silly fictitous number, but it is fun all the same. Second, I am halfway through the problems in Circle One. Woo-hoo!! Third, I have completed the level 30 problems.
Circle 1 should be the nastiest from my perspective. Circle 2, 3 and 4 will be work though not as much suffering. The last 3 cirlces will be taxing but mostly pattern recognition (either I'll get it or not). The big push will come between now and Christmas. Problems will keep getting harder. I see a lot of staring at the screen in my future. If I can keep really working at it and not sluff off, I think I will make some real progress in the next 40 some days.
All things considered, I have made it much further than I ever thought I would.
49 days down, 106 to go
617 problems down, 592 to go in Circle One
Circle 1 should be the nastiest from my perspective. Circle 2, 3 and 4 will be work though not as much suffering. The last 3 cirlces will be taxing but mostly pattern recognition (either I'll get it or not). The big push will come between now and Christmas. Problems will keep getting harder. I see a lot of staring at the screen in my future. If I can keep really working at it and not sluff off, I think I will make some real progress in the next 40 some days.
All things considered, I have made it much further than I ever thought I would.
49 days down, 106 to go
617 problems down, 592 to go in Circle One
posted by Don Q.
2 Comments:
Congrats!
You are providing me the much-needed motivation to start my serious study of tactics :) BTW, are you following "Rapid Chess Improvement" schedule or you have one of your own?
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Kannan Ramanathan, at 10:08 PM
I am trying to follow the schedule put forth in "Rapid Chess Improvement". So far I haven't been able to keep to it absolutley, but I'm not too far off the mark. The first circle was supposed to be completed in 64 days; it will probably be more like 67 (or 70).
Looked through your blog. Was an interesting mixture of topics. I too thought "Shaun of the Dead" was a great movie. In fact, I went ot see it with my good friend who has a blog at cubefarmer.blogspot.com. If you have another day where you are put out with "annoying fellows" you might check out his blog. His life is one long stream of them. I too have an impressive collection of chess books with chapter one completed. Someone on "Chess Ninja" has referred to this as the "Rapid Chess Acquisition" strategy.
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Don Q., at 4:54 AM
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