X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/blobdiff_plain/61934305cf0cfb6229bf56499b373064697cb273..7b6d896d48cfba1bc5c49f47113ca568361d7077:/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot b/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot index 81cb669..e8cc50c 100644 --- a/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot +++ b/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot @@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ My rating and performance over time (on chess.com): | Week | Blitz rating |Rapid rating | Blitz win/loss | Rapid win/loss | |------|--------------|-------------|----------------|----------------| -| 1 | N/A | 429 | 4-1 | 3-1 | -| 2 | 686 | 508 | 0-0 | 3-1 | - - +| 1 | N/A | 429 | 3-1 | 4-1 | +| 2 | 686 | 508 | 6-6 | 0-0 | +| 3 | 725 | 508 | 0-0 | 0-0 | Notes: @@ -97,6 +96,55 @@ TPTCOAT]][daily game versus TPTCOAT] [daily game versus TPTCOAT]: https://www.chess.com/game/daily/561280087 +### Week 2 + +From this week on, the study plan decreases the games played a little +to make room for studying the games from _Logical Chess Move by Move_. +Which is a fun book! +It's a bit of an old book, so some of the analyses are by now +demonstrably erroneous due to further developments in the understanding +of chess (and the advent of chess engines), but it's interesting. +It goes through a bunch of historical master-level games and explains +the ideas behind (and sometimes flaws in) each move. + +Yesterday I also got to get started on _Winning Chess Openings_ (okay, +that's a lie, i've been doing a bit of extracurricular reading on it +already. but i did more yesterday). +Which is also a great book. +I've reached the section of the book where it's basically giving a +whirlwind tour of every classical king's pawn opening (which is to say, +ones beginning 1. e4 e5, with both players moving the pawn in front of +their king two squares). +Next it's gonna do the same for classical queen's pawn openings (1. d4 +d5), and then for modern king's/queen's pawn openings (where the second +player doesn't mirror the first's move, intending to contest or attack +their position in the center in some other way). + +The games this week were all blitz games. +I went 6-6, (3-1, 2-2, and 1-3 across the different days I played +them). +Looking back I notice I went 6-1 with the white pieces and 0-5 with the +black pieces. +Huh. +(And the black games were all in the Caro-Kann, which is how I respond +to 1. e4.) +Gonna need to work on that I guess, hehe. + +I won my daily game that was going really excitingly. +Played another game against the same person as well as starting a new +game. +The rematch went in my favor again, and now we're doing another (now +unrated) game. +The new daily game I got a bit reckless and tried a Qa5+ tactic (this +is moving your queen to check the opponent's king with the intention of +then capturing a different piece with the queen when they have to move +to defend; awkwardly I failed to notice that they could both block the +check and defend the piece I was going after by moving their queen) +that hasn't panned out so I had to spend several moves getting my queen +to safety. +I've managed to stabilize the situation so we'll see how that works +out. :) + [^daily explanation]: "Daily" is just what chess.com calls games with such a time control. Chess.com is very popular (and according to the data gathered by that