Friday, October 21, 2005
Whenever
I have a folder named "Needs work" on my computer, and in it lies a multitude of dusty, old PGN and Chessmaster games I played, all waiting patiently for me to look at them. Each one typically has two or three moves marked as "mistake - look at later". If I'm extremely lucky there will be an annotation, but mostly there isn't, the idea here that I need practice calculating from scratch.
For quite awhile I have been saying to myself, "I'll get to those later". Right. Sure I will, um, ...whenever. I realize without some healthy attitude adjustment this will continue indefinitely. It wasn't until listening to Dan Heisman on the ICC that I had even considered adjusting said attitude. He was talking about creating a "Hall of Shame" collection, much like I have been considering, but he stressed that this should only have big mistakes, not under time pressure or from a position that was beyond your level to play accurately. It all clicked. I need a grouping: my beginner mistakes (which is essentially the same as the "Hall of Shame"), my intermediate mistakes (where spending 10-25 minutes would have yielded a better move), and my advanced mistakes (where I aim to get more elements of the total picture).
I'll get to this whenever :-). Perhaps using smaller groups of positions increases there chances of being looked at... seriously... by someone. Ahem.
I have started visiting the tactics chess server at emerald.net. I will make some more posts about it later, right after I have recoved from my excessive-compulsive tactics disorder ;-).
For quite awhile I have been saying to myself, "I'll get to those later". Right. Sure I will, um, ...whenever. I realize without some healthy attitude adjustment this will continue indefinitely. It wasn't until listening to Dan Heisman on the ICC that I had even considered adjusting said attitude. He was talking about creating a "Hall of Shame" collection, much like I have been considering, but he stressed that this should only have big mistakes, not under time pressure or from a position that was beyond your level to play accurately. It all clicked. I need a grouping: my beginner mistakes (which is essentially the same as the "Hall of Shame"), my intermediate mistakes (where spending 10-25 minutes would have yielded a better move), and my advanced mistakes (where I aim to get more elements of the total picture).
I'll get to this whenever :-). Perhaps using smaller groups of positions increases there chances of being looked at... seriously... by someone. Ahem.
I have started visiting the tactics chess server at emerald.net. I will make some more posts about it later, right after I have recoved from my excessive-compulsive tactics disorder ;-).
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TCT Results | Circle 1 | Circle 2 | Circle 3 |
| Step 1 | 97% | 99% | 99% |
| Step 2 | 93% | 96% | 95% |
| Step 3 | 93% | 97% | 97% |
| Step 4 | 80% | 86% | 90% |
| Step 5 | 74% | 77% | 88%* |
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Yeah, i think i'm starting to have quite a bad attitude. I'm going to analyse my standard games... "later".. But later never comes :(
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