Weekly Training Log (week 3)

December 14 - December 20

Daily Tactics
Daily Fischer Challenge
Chess Book Reading Group Meeting
Slow Game(s)
Reading about the Colle

Weekly Training Log (Week 2)

December 7- December 13
Monday:
Daily Tactics Reading Silman's Complete Endgame Course book: Preface, Introduction, How to read this book, Mates with 2 major pieces TEST 1,2

Tuesday:
Daily Tactics Reading Silman's Complete Endgame Course book:
Mate with queen and king and play on ICC with KQK robot

Wednesday:
Daily Tactics Reading Silman's Complete Endgame Course book:
Mate with rook and king and play on ICC with KRK robot TEST 3,5

Thursday:
Daily Tactics Reading Silman's Complete Endgame Course book:
Practice the mate with rook and king and Mate with queen and king on ICC TEST 4

Friday:
Daily Tactics Reading Silman's Complete Endgame Course book:
Stalemate Alert!, Summing up, TEST 5

Saturday:
Daily Tactics Reading Silman's Complete Endgame Course book:
Review and reread Part One including mate with queen

Sunday:
Daily Tactics Reading Silman's Complete Endgame Course book:
Review and reread Part One from mate with rook and stalemate and TESTs

Please note that both ICC and FICS have "bots" for endgame training.

Weekly Training Log (week 1)

November 30- December 6

This will be the first week of my new Training Regime. Tactics will still be the meat and potatoes but the goal is to add one new topic each week.

Weekly Topics:

week 1 french with Nc3, Nd2 when we can capture on e4
week 2 endgame 1 basic checkmates with major pieces
week 3 tarrasch when bishop develops to e2
week 4 endgame 2 1000-1200 part 1
week 5 colle 1
week 6 endgame 3 1000-1200 part 2
week 7 french advanced white plays e4-e5
week 8 endgame 4 1200-1400 part 1
week 9 tarrasch when white places his bishop to g2
week 10 endgame 5 1200-1400 part 2
week 11 colle when black plays kings indian setup with g6, Bg7, pawn d6-e5 or c5
week 12 endgame 6 1200-1400 part 3


Goals for week 1:

• Daily Tactics Sessions using Chess Tempo and/or Chess Magnet School
• Start studying the basics of the french defense
• Play 1-2 League games
• Improve my ratings at Chess Tempo (1805) and Chess Magnet School (1330) by at least five points
  

Monday:
Daily Tactics Team League game Reading Purdy (Action Chess, pp. 77-83)

Tuesday:
Daily Tactics Reading Purdy (pp. 58-66) Analyzing League game

Wednesday:
Daily Tactics Reading Purdy (pp. 66-69 )

Thursday:
Daily Tactics Reading Purdy (pp. 70-73 )

Friday:
Daily Tactics Reading Purdy (pp. 74-77 )

Saturday:
Team League games (2) Reading Purdy (pp. 83-90 )

Sunday:
Daily Tactics Reading Purdy (pp. 90-98 )

Weekly Training Log

November 23-29

Goals:
Read a chunk of Art of the Attack
Reach 1800+ at Chesstempo
Some work using the Step Method Disc

Monday:
Team League game, Chesstempo +1.5, 12 minutes, a little Art of the Attack

Tuesday:
ChessMagnetSchool.com's Rating Test (scored 1470)

Wednesday:
Chesstempo +11.3 (1804!), 15 minutes, Chess Magnet School +4, 30 minutes

Thursday:
Chesstempo +2.6, 20 minutes, Chess Magnet School +6, 20 minutes

Friday:
Team League game, Chess Magnet School +10, 30 minutes

Saturday:
Chess Magnet School +7, 30 minutes

Sunday:
Chess Magnet School +2, 30 minutes, Chesstempo -1.6, 15 minutes

Weekly Training Log

The Guru will be updating an online training diary:


Monday:
Chesstempo +7.8, 24 minutes

Tuesday:
Wednesday: Chesstempo +5.4, 18 minutes, Art of the Attack, 15 minutes, Three Online 15/10 games (2/3)

Thursday:
Chesstempo +5.9, 24 minutes, One lesson and some test exercises using the Step Method

Friday:
Chesstempo -6.0, 30 minutes, Step Method 3.11 + tests, 30 minutes

Saturday:
Team4545 League game (Bragging in process)

Sunday:
Chesstempo +6.4, 20 minutes