Well it looks like my 2011 tournament coming out party will have to wait. I have to work Saturday and my new schedule will include Saturdays for the next few months, so no chess for me.
On the bright side of things I’ve decided to join ranks with the New Knights Errant, or the Knights Reborn or Knights Errant Redux or whatever they are calling themselves now. Go over the Blunder’s sight, he’s completely lost his mind on this tactics thing. I figured why not jump in the crazy pool with him?
Doesn’t look like I’ll be playing OTB for awhile anyway so I can undertake some more time consuming study. I started my first circle today and am using Chess Tactics for Beginners ans I have to say that once I got used to using the software and resisted the urge to cheat, it is really quite beneficial. I mean it took me several hours to go through Chess School Vol1A, but I’m halfway through the corresponding problems on Chess Tactics for Beginners. It certainly allows you to go through the problems faster.
In addition to the circles I’ll be going through my repertoire book, had to shelve the English, it didn’t really suit me. It just seems kind of wrong not to put a pawn right in the center when I have the white pieces, but more on that later.
Well that’s it, I’m off to watch some TV or read or something, have a good week folks.
Pity to hear that your tournament plans fell in the water. Cant you change shifts with one of your co-workers for those particulair saterdays? I will echo your cry of pain “Stupid job” for now.
I think the name you are looking for is Errant Knights revival.
Only doing tactics doesn’t work for me. I need something along the side to keep my appetite going like for example endgames or analyse one of my own games to see where i went wrong and then try to find a fix.
Anyway, have fun doing tactics while swearing at your boss for giving you such stupid schedule.
Glad to hear you dropped the English. I thought that we had lost you for a moment there. 1.Nf3, though, seems to be a good way to start out the English in order to dissuade against an ..e5 response.
On the bright side, the stupid job allows you to earn money to enter tournaments in the future. And eat. That part is kind of important, too.
Are you playing online regularly?