Finally. The next hundred. For some time it looked like I'd never get here. I got close so many times, only to plummet back to the low 1100's, but at last I broke through the 1300 mark. Maybe there's some hope after all.
I've also picked up Scandinavian Defense as my main weapon against 1.e4, and I must say it's been a delight. No more embarrassing, crampy failures with sicilians, and you get to flex the tactical muscle right from the beginning. Naturally I play it like crap at this point, but at least I can get the plane off the runway without exploding into thousands of flaming pieces. Well, mostly anyway. There's still a lot to learn.
ICC 5-minute: 1310, +325, =8, -358 of total 691 games.
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i definitely noticed.
nice work.
so sweet the joy.
as a massive bullet or 'lightning') player in my own new quest for a specific number, and having approached it twice to within two then ten elo, i can fully empathise. such hard work.
good job.
and all the more warm to attain after rolling back off the hill, so many times.
thanks dk. I made it on fics as well, so hopefully it's not just pure luck... not that I won't dive back under 1300 again, but I'm feeling rather positive about it now.
still 200 points to this year's goal. seems a bit unrealistic at the moment, considering how hard it was getting this far. but hey, there's no reason to set easy goals, right?
im sure it is not luck. :).
so now you get the 90% thing! i told you, not to gloat, but i did tell you. so now, like me, you probably see a 85% session as a disaster? i do.
i had one bad rout, for five or six days, and now must do 700 at 97% to get my daily quota back to <94.00%. because of that bad set, now i must do 94.062% for EVERY problem to get to true 88.00% at 40,000.
artificial pressure? yes. but combined with my renewed study of GM games, continued 1001 tactic books, and daily bullet, and i will attain my goals.
i drew a chart last night, and calculated, 94% to 50,000 then 60,000 gets me to 90.00% in two years. i dont want to sit, i no longer want to sit for hours [both arms now bother me, so must take my chess in units now] at CTS, but see it now as a daily discipline, not a place to 'get the whole enchelada', but rather one of a series of things that i do daily.
this is my new initiative: to run all three or four horses daily, not one lead horse, and make the combination of those my mandala.
i am back to RHP, and giving a fellow a rematch, which is saying a lot, since i can spend 25 houts on one move. i dont enjoy this, but want to win, and win with beauty. i expect a real fight, as his elo is +, and he wants vengeance!
heh, yea, 89% feels like a disappointment now. :) but it can't even hold a candle to my bad days like the last couple. today I did 2 problems, both wrong, and decided to call it a day.
you'll probably be pleased to hear that I'm playing some 2 12 games as well. I play way too fast though, being so used to the 5 0 swim-or-sink mentality. finishing the game with something like 8:30 minutes, so clearly I'm using my time badly. it's nice to get endgames though, and they're feeling oh so easy after the hectic 5 0 endgames.
I'm still continuing the 5 0 diet though, 2 12 I do just to pass the time when I'm not up to 5 0.
read your post the other day, what a terrible amount of different kinds of training you're doing. I find myself hoping I had less and less 'obligatory' training to do these days. I would really like to just play blitz for change, with no other commitments.
please read, thur 09 aug blog:
http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot.com/
99% of recent, but not much relaxation....
1 wrong in 177 now feels like a meltdown. :)
thanks for the heads up, dk, but I think I'll pass. the BCC blog seems to be a more of a bulletin board for upcoming events etc, instead of chess improvement, so I see no reason why I would ever read it. and I'm not going to link to a blog that I wouldn't read.
some very nice percentages you've been pulling off recently on CTS. I've been having almost exclusively bad days. I wonder if I can even make it to 85% on this batch...
oh, and spam deleted a couple of posts up, in case someone wonders what it was...
understood. thanks for responding.
after this big unit at CTS, i am almost ready to start back onto CT-Art, which, of couse, i only do with 100% concentration. i dont click to guess, but sit and sit until i can see it all.
my best CTS in the last year, and best live chess was after daily CT-Art, and might be my only way forward now... again...
take care, dk
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