Wednesday, August 03, 2005
Incremental Chess Improvement
I was thinking about the MDLM approach recently, partially prompted by recent blog criticisms. Comparing my study time verses the time MDLM put in, I would say that I am hoping for 400 points in about 800-900 days. I started out Step 5 going way too fast and got even worse scores than in circle 1. Now I have slowed to 6 minutes or less per problem and it averages to quite a bit under 4 minutes as some of them pop-out as more obvious.
I found an honest to goodness incorrect answer in TCT. In Step 5, 7a, #10 move 1... d5 is marked it as incorrect but is the best at 3.50 vs playing 1...c5 at 3.07 (Fritz @ depth 11). Horray for instinct!
[Event "Tasc Chess Tutor"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2005.08.03"]
[Round "?"]
[White "White"]
[Black "Black"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "r1bqr1k1/pp1p1ppp/1bp2n2/8/3NP3/2NBQP2/PPP3PP/R4RK1 b - - 0 1"]
[EventDate "2005.??.??"]
1... c5 (1... d5 2. Rad1 c5 3. Qg5 h6 4. Qg3 cxd4 5. Nxd5 Nxd5 6. exd5 Qxd5) 2.
Nde2 c4 3. Nd4 cxd3 4. cxd3 d5 5. Nce2 Qd6 *
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TCT Results | Circle 1 | Circle 2 |
| Step 1 | 97% | 99% |
| Step 2 | 93% | 96% |
| Step 3 | 93% | 97% |
| Step 4 | 80% | 86% |
| Step 5 | 74% | *75% |
