Rating 1825
Puzzle Rush Score 43
Daily Study Today I played two blitz games. I lost my first game in time trouble (I had a winning position – up a queen for two minor pieces) and won the second game. Here is the second game along with my annotations.
Rating 1824
Puzzle Rush Score 40
Daily Study Spent quite a bit of time working on tactics puzzles today. My chess.com puzzle rating is up at 2548 which is good (The puzzle ratings are a bit inflated compared to regular ratings).
Here is one of the puzzles I found quite satisfying to solve. Black to move and mate in three.
Rating 1817
Puzzle Rush Score 40
Daily Study Today I played a few blitz games on Lichess. I went there to check out the opening explorer as I had heard that it can identify what openings you are strong / weak at based on your game results. I forgot to check it though, so that is still on the to do list.
I played a nice game in the French where I had the opportunity to go for an Anastasias Mate pattern. I didn’t quite get there with it, but did enough damage to win.
Rating 1817
Puzzle Rush Score 48 (High Score)
Daily Study Today I beat my high score on Puzzle Rush (smashed my previous high score by 5!) I caught up with the tournament results for the Grand Swiss and worked on my newsletter (coming out at the end of the month). Congraluations to Alireza Firouzja and Fabiano Caruana for placing first and second, qualifying for the 2022 Candiates tournament.
Here is the game between Alireza and Fabiano in the ninth round.