Week 4 of C3 and my Thanks to the nice folks at Convecta…

Monday:
Tried to store my games in my database, but Chess Assistant 9 was not working.  Tried doing the uninstall re-install thing, but to no avail.  I frittered much of my free time away trying to get this to work.  I should have just let it be and continued studying, but I had to be all [...]

Drunkn Munky Kung-Fu Patzer Chess…

So, I did make the tourney.  I played three games, I “took a bye” in R1.  I have it in quotations because I couldn’t get a hold of anybody, so I just showed up late, so no half point bye for me.
My first game is here, I will be mirroring at Chess.com the games are here.
I [...]

Week 3 of C3

Monday:
My Final for stats won’t be available until Wednesday, so I did the problems at the end of Lesson 5: Destructive Combinations.  I scored a 7 out of 12.  These were the hardest problems yet.  Many of the solutions have multiple branches, although I got the first 3 or 4 moves right I didn’t see the branch that came [...]

Week two of the Comprehensive Chess Course Series Study Plan

Not quite as sharp in week two.
Monday:
Did 30 problems from CT-ART scored 75%.  Improving but still a far way from my goal of 95%.  By the way my goal is to hit 95% on a level in CT-ART before moving up.
I started breaking into Lesson 3 of CTTP.
Tuesday:
Did another 30 problems on level 20 scored [...]

My first week in Mr. Alburt’s Neighborhood.

(I mirrored the post here.  It has the game boards in the body of the post.  Until WordPress lets me do that I’ll just have to keep mirroring my posts.)
Ok the more attentive folks out there will notice that I changed the name of the blog.  Well not really, the address is and has always [...]