Monday, March 13, 2006
Step 3 Complete!
Circles 5-7 DONE! Most of the time I gave the problems proper consideration, and I admit I occasionally saw some new aspects in some positions on the seventh circle. I think another bit of review time is upon me.
I went through another annotated game in The Art of Logical Thinking. In Nunn vs Solokov on move 18 (p. 49), I wonder why McDonald didn't analyze White sacrificing the exchange.
18. Rxf6 gxf6 19. Nxf6+!
seems worth considering, where the Black King will be forced onto either the d or f file, thus allowing the a-1 Rook to essentially develop with tempo. Black's Bishop and Rooks are not developed and White is more active. The resulting position is a bit beyond me, and I would have appreciated some master help.
This book continues to drive home how frequently GMs are doing 2 or even 3 things in a turn. This is exactly what I am not doing, which seems to be indicated in my blitz play and rating. I am not seeing alot of what is on the board, and on average I am having less ideas, especially as compared to last month. After thinking about it awhile, I have concluded that the boost in blitz performance last month was due to working on the "Simultaneous Advantage" document. I worked on it for three months, and, combined with the circles, I must have been in a better tactical state of mind. Soon after I finished it, I stopped thinking about it (as it was done), and now something has faded from my play. For me, learning tactics is the opposite of learning how to ride a bike; any tactical theme can be forgotten, sometimes rather quickly.
Anyway, as a remedy I am going to review my own darn post and post-mortem my games more from a simultaneous advantage point of view.
I went through another annotated game in The Art of Logical Thinking. In Nunn vs Solokov on move 18 (p. 49), I wonder why McDonald didn't analyze White sacrificing the exchange.
18. Rxf6 gxf6 19. Nxf6+!
seems worth considering, where the Black King will be forced onto either the d or f file, thus allowing the a-1 Rook to essentially develop with tempo. Black's Bishop and Rooks are not developed and White is more active. The resulting position is a bit beyond me, and I would have appreciated some master help.
This book continues to drive home how frequently GMs are doing 2 or even 3 things in a turn. This is exactly what I am not doing, which seems to be indicated in my blitz play and rating. I am not seeing alot of what is on the board, and on average I am having less ideas, especially as compared to last month. After thinking about it awhile, I have concluded that the boost in blitz performance last month was due to working on the "Simultaneous Advantage" document. I worked on it for three months, and, combined with the circles, I must have been in a better tactical state of mind. Soon after I finished it, I stopped thinking about it (as it was done), and now something has faded from my play. For me, learning tactics is the opposite of learning how to ride a bike; any tactical theme can be forgotten, sometimes rather quickly.
Anyway, as a remedy I am going to review my own darn post and post-mortem my games more from a simultaneous advantage point of view.
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TCT Results | Circle 1 | Circle 2 | Circle 3 | Circle 4 | Circle 5 | Circle 6 | Circle 7 |
| Step 1 | 97% | 99% | 99% | 100%r | |||
| Step 2 | 93% | 96% | 95% | 97% | 96% | 99% | 100% |
| Step 3 | 93% | 97% | 97% | 96% | 96% | 98% | 99% |
| Step 4 | 80% | 86% | 90% | 92% | |||
| Step 5 | 74% | 77% | 83% | 87% |
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You must be synchronistic! That rarely has happened to me, although sometimes similarities to something I just saw in a problem has helped my defense.
Hmm...I would say that some tactics certainly "pop" out faster, but I still blunder if I rush things.
Indeed the rook sac is THE line preferred by Fritz. I don't know if you ran the computer analysis on it. Very strong. I'll give McDonald a little slack, because he's such an entertaining writer. Hands above the rest in my opinion. Good eye.
Thanks PMD. I really couldn't figure it out, so I did use Fritz to see the details. Complicated position! I was surprised how it thought ...Kf7 was much better than anything else. Not what I guessed at all.
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