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A Look Back On 2023
2023 was a big year for me, but not on the chess front. I started a new job that needed my focus and attention. I had far less down time to enjoy and study chess. I managed to squeeze in a puzzle rush every other day and a few hundred bullet games, but that was it.
I was successful in playing 1.d4 for the whole year, but I don’t feel like I have a good understanding of the middlegame positions I have been finding myself in.
I managed a small amount of reading, but nothing to write home about.
I certainly didn’t manage to achieve the goals I had set for myself. I am hoping throughout 2024 that I might be able to do a little better.
Here is one of the only games I annotated from the year (one that I played right at the start of 2023).
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My Chess Study 1
A year ago I started documenting a summary of my daily chess study and I posted it here on the blog. After 100 days I stopped, but now I feel the urge to pick it back up again. I am still trying to climb to a rating above 2000 on both Lichess and Chess.com. The title of these posts is going to simply be “My Chess Study” and it is essentially a journal entry of the chess related tasks I did during the day. The aim is to post daily, but I will see how I go.
Lichess Rapid 2011 Lichess Blitz 1920 Chess.com Rapid 1969 Chess.com Blitz 1788
Puzzle Rush Score 35
Daily Study Today I played a few bullet games and found myself in the following position.
In the following game on move 13 there is a great move for Black. I saw the idea and went for it, but missed a defensive resource. My opponent missed the move also and resigned shortly after. It just goes to show how careful you have to be.