Brief Report from Patzerhood

GM Fabiano Caruana kindly offered at simul for LeChessclub members at ICC. I delayed my big blunder for 20 some moves and enjoyed the experience.

Ugly Loss

Improvised tournament?

Chess Buddies,

My Wife and kids have gone on a trip to the countryside. They will be away for a few days or maybe even a week. Poor me will have to survive on massive doses of online chess etc.

Would you be interested in keeping me busy?

I was playing around with the idea to start a mini tournament at FICS. How about three rounds of G/30 tonight (Thursday, May 28th) starting at 13:00 (EST)? Please forgive me for the short notice and Europe biased suggested starting time.

Please drop me a note at sydsad@hotmail.com and tell me what you think.


Cheers, farbror

Training Diary: May 20, 2009

Tactics: daily doses of problems at chesstempo (CT)

Endgames: almost daily problems at CT

Openings: Reading about Grand Prix Attack (GPA), collecting GPA master games for review

Strategy: almost none, started reading Euwe's "Developement of Chess Style"

Analysis: analyzing my league game


Slow league game, won, all time high ICC rating (1258?)

reaching 1670 at chesstempo



Wish list:

- to have a draft opening repertoire

- create "my five best games" list

New League game with some notes

Here is my game from the third round:

Team League game

Our team had a bye in the first round. Here is my game from the second round with some notes: