My rating and performance over time (on chess.com):
-| Week | Blitz rating |Rapid rating | Blitz win/loss | Rapid win/loss |
-|------|--------------|-------------|----------------|----------------|
-| 1 | N/A | 429 | 3-1 | 4-1 |
-| 2 | 686 | 508 | 6-6 | 0-0 |
-| 3 | 725 | 508 | 1-3 | 2-0 |
-| 4 | 694 | 535 | 3-9 | 0-0 |
-| 5 | 615 | 535 | 2-2 (0-4) | 2-0 (0-3) |
-| 6 | 588 | 628 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
-| 7 | 590 | 728 | 5-7 | 5-0 |
-| 8 | 587 | 739 | 2-2 | 4-4 |
+| Week | Blitz rating |Rapid rating | Blitz win/loss/draw | Rapid win/loss |
+|------|--------------|-------------|---------------------|----------------|
+| 1 | N/A | 429 | 3-1 | 4-1 |
+| 2 | 686 | 508 | 6-6 | 0-0 |
+| 3 | 725 | 508 | 1-3 | 2-0 |
+| 4 | 694 | 535 | 3-9 | 0-0 |
+| 5 | 615 | 535 | 2-2 (0-4) | 2-0 (0-3) |
+| 6 | 588 | 628 | 5-7 | 5-0 |
+| 7 | 590 | 728 | 2-2 | 4-4 |
+| 8 | 587 | 739 | 5-6-1 | 9-3 |
+| 9 | 579 | 795 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Notes:
e5 just to see a broader variety of positions and build a broader
variety of skills.
+# Week 8
+
+This was a blitz week for the study plan.
+The blitz games did not go super great, although I had my first ever
+draw (other than the time I blundered a stalemate in a Queen vs. King
+ending against Will).
+
+I did play a bunch of extracurricular rapid games, which went much
+better.
+Amusingly apparently I played as many rapid games as blitz games.
+
+I'm planning to start studying Jesús de la Villa Garcia's _100 Endgames
+You Must Know_ for my endgame study going forward.
+This week I only made it through the introduction, but next week I'll
+start on the chapter on basic endings, which will mostly be review, but
+will hopefully improve my comfort and accuracy with the stuff it
+covers.
+
+I've continued working on the puzzles from _Manual of Chess
+Combinations, Volume 1a_.
+I've done 318 puzzles of 719 in the book after 13 days.
+I made it past the simple mate in one puzzles.
+After those, it had various "win a [piece]" puzzles, followed by
+endgame positions with the goal to secure a draw.
+At the spot where I'm at as I write this, it's various themed mate-in-2
+problems (first "by means of a double check", then "by means of a Queen
+sacrifice").
+I really liked the draw puzzles and the mate in 2 problems are also
+proving very enjoyable.
+
[^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