Tournament Update

OK I won’t have the update until Wednesday.  I have a lot of crap to take care of and there is a lot of game analysis that needs to be done.  I would like to thank everyone who responded to my last post.  I’m not sure what I am going to do, but you all [...]

Pride and Sorrow

This is the phrase most often associated with Paul Morphy, brilliant, but such a short career. The same can be said of Bobby Fischer, and well it’s the theme of my (belated) weekly post.

 
First Michael Jackson passed away today, what really surprises me is how bummed I am about this. I remember Thriller [...]

Tournament Study Routine (I suffer from CSS Can’t See S**T)

Monday:

Did 41 problems on level 20 of CT-ART Scored 80%, best so far!

Worked through CTTP for about 25 minutes, only got 3 pages through, like I said earlier this is the toughest chapter.

Played 2 G15’s.  Man am I rusty, I played two really terrible games, it’s been 7 weeks since my last OTB game and [...]

School’s out for summer!

Mirrored here.
 
  
WOOHOO!  Finished my accounting final and I have 6 weeks of no school!  I am so excited I could…I could…well I’m not exactly sure what I could do but I’m pretty damn happy.
So I guess I’ll just train myself silly.  There is a “big” tourney coming up in New Mexico.  I would have much [...]

Week 6 of CCC

As is the case now my blog is mirrored here.

Glass Chess Set

 
 
 
I bought this set years ago at the Village Chess Shop.  It was between this one and another set where the “black” pieces were frosted like the white one’s are in this set and the white pieces were clear.  Ultimately I thought this had more [...]