Climb To 2000

Day 63

Leave a Comment / Climb To 2000, Najdorf Variation, Sicilian Defense /

Rating 1829

Puzzle Rush Score 33

Daily Study I played over one Bobby Fischer game from his book My 60 Memorable Games. I came away with a few takeaways about the game.

  • In these Najdorf lines it is important to consider trading the dark squared bishop for the knight on b6 so that it can’t jump to a4 or c4. Fischer suggests this move in his annotations and it was the top engine choice.
  • If you are going to give your opponent a passed pawn you may want to take another think about the position. 29.Nxe5 gives black a passed pawn and Fischer suggests that his opponent should not have done this. The funny thing is that I thought that was the top move for white and then I read the annotations. I clearly didn’t think deeply enough about the position.

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Day 62

Leave a Comment / Climb To 2000 /

Rating 1821

Puzzle Rush Score 33

Daily Study Today I played three blitz games. I won two and lost one. I watched an interesting video by Daniel Naroditsky where he looked over a game by a player in a similar rating range to me. I found some of his suggestions quite instructive.

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Day 61

Leave a Comment / Alireza Firouzja, Climb To 2000 /

Rating 1813

Puzzle Rush Score 38

Daily Study Today I played three blitz games and lost all three (I never seem to play well on a Friday evening. Tired from the working week maybe?). I didn’t keep playing and was happy to just stop for the night which felt really good. I then went on to study one of Fischer’s games and then did a bunch of tactics. A good day of study!

The Grand Swiss has been progressing and the current leader is Alireza Firouzja. He has been playing outstanding chess and today he won a nice game against Krishnan Sasikiran.

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Day 60

Leave a Comment / Climb To 2000, Ruy Lopez /

Rating 1836

Puzzle Rush Score ?

Daily Study Today I worked on the November issue of The Chess Newsletter. The newsletter has a broader focus on chess and improvement than my blog (which documents my journey in greater detail). If you haven’t subscribed to the newsletter I would love for you to do so.

I played a blitz game that was riddled with blunders and here it is.

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