Day 76
Rating 1819
Puzzle Rush Score 34
Daily Study Another Bobby Fischer game today. This one was a Ruy Lopez, so I really enjoyed the opening portion of the game and I felt like there was a lot to learn from it.
Ruy Lopez
Day 60
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.
Day 35
Rating 1783
Puzzle Rush Score 28
Game Today we have a game from the current U.S Chess Championships. Fabiano Caruana gets a nice win over John Burke with an excellent Ruy Lopez. It was a sharp line with 8. Bg5 and then h6 and g5 kicking the white bishop away. This opens up the kingside though and creates holes in black’s position. I found this to be an interesting way of playing the opening and something for me to look into a little more as an option in my games (usually I don’t play Bg5).
Day 28
Rating 1815
Puzzle Rush Score 30
Today I played a few games. In most of them I didn’t do that well and I lost a few rating points from the start of the session. However, I did get a new “best win” defeating a player with a rating of 1931.
I have been looking over games played by Jose Raul Capablanca in Garry Kasparov’s book My Great Predecessors. Capablanca played some incredible games. Below is one of those games from back in 1913.