From: Surinna Curtis Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 15:35:54 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Updated my chess study plan page X-Git-Url: https://git.ladys.computer/Wiki/commitdiff_plain/57bb742bfdba5e49c1c7eded030ef0e203e51e2f Updated my chess study plan page --- diff --git a/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot b/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot index 3b4a85f..14d62c9 100644 --- a/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot +++ b/Sources/Editor/Rinna/ChessStudyPlan.djot @@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ My rating and performance over time (on chess.com): | 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 | Notes: @@ -329,6 +330,61 @@ Silman's book are intended for much stronger players than me. We'll see how next week goes. +## Week 7 + +Went completely even in my games this week, which resulted in a slight +drop in my blitz rating and a slight increase in my rapid rating. +Also I caught and mostly recovered from COVID. + +Looking back over the study plan so far, I feel confident I've improved +somewhat. +My blitz rating has gone down a bit from what it was after that first +week, but my rapid rating has slowly but steadily increased. +I've also been continuing to do very well in my correspondence games, +though I haven't tracked those in the table. + +My main current extracurricular study project is working through the +very basic book of chess puzzles _Manual of Chess Combinations Volume +1a_, with the intention of trying the Woodpecker method with it. +My goal there is to work on calculating simple variations and quickly +recognizing tactical patterns. +That method is a training approach aimed at improving pattern +recognition that was described in a book titled the Woodpecker Method. +The idea is: you spend a four week period solving as many puzzles from +some set of exercises as you can, then take a day or two break before +doing the same exercises again, but faster. +The ideal is you manage to halve the time it takes each cycle and +eventually end up able to solve all of them within a day (possibly a +rather long day hehe). +The problems in the Woodpecker Method book itself are too difficult to +make sense for me to do the method with (if I'm spending ~8 minutes a +problem and still only getting a bit above half the points... idk that +I'm going to get much out of repeatedly solving it hehe), so I'm going +with the much easier book for the puzzles. +Perhaps if I find the methodology helpful I'll give it a try with the +puzzles in the original book someday when I'm stronger! + +My beloved SofĂ­a has been helping me with that study project by +checking my solutions for me (the solution pages are very compact in +the _Manual of Chess Combinations_ so it's tricky to avoid accidentally +seeing a glimpse of later problems' solutions), which has been fun. ^.^ + +My endgame study on those days is a little unfocused at this point +since I finished the level-appropriate bits of Silman's endgame book. +I should probably figure out a clearer plan for those days by the end +of this week. + +Opening study has continued to be interesting. +I finished up the Seirawan book's coverage of the French Defense and +started in on the Caro-Kann. +This week I'll continue starting with the Short Variation of the +Caro-Kann Advance Variation and then move on to the Sicilian Defense, +which will probably last at least into the following week. +The Sicilian is an exciting opening, and it's also my current main +response to 1. e4, although I'm considering switching to playing 1. e4 +e5 just to see a broader variety of positions and build a broader +variety of skills. + [^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