Rating 1825
Puzzle Rush Score 37
Daily Study I am trying to take it fairly easy on Friday nights as I am usually spent from the week. I played two rapid games on Lichess and won both games. I am still provisionally rated on the site, so I have been versing a diverse range of opponents. I also watched a bit of the Chess.com Speed Chess Championship. In the game below Nihal Sarin gets a nice win over Alexander Grischuk.
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.