Rating 1796
Puzzle Rush Score 33
My rating continues to creep up, but I haven’t cracked 1800 yet. I played a few games today and did a lesson on the Kings Indian. When I went to practice what I learnt in game, I got smashed every time haha
Here is a nice game where my opponent destroys me.
In this game I get a win against an opponent with a rating of 1895, my “best win” on chess.com. We both made a few mistakes, but I was glad to spot a couple of nice moves and mate threats.
Rating 1794
Puzzle Rush Score 36
What a day! I played a few games and kept on losing. Lots of silly mistakes and my brain was not working. Some days it is way harder to think clearly. It could be that I just don’t understand the new openings I am trying out. Regardless, I lost a lot of games!
After losing a number of games I took a break and tried to re-coop some of the rating points later in the day. Amazingly I recovered really well to finish the day with the highest rating I have had yet in my Climb To 2000 series, just a few points shy of 1800. I was still making lots of silly errors though and had to work hard to win a number of games.
One of my opponents was eager to play a number of games, which was great as I got a chance to play against the same opening numerous times. My opponent played the London System and the Scandanvian Defense. I fared quite well, but one thing I noticed in my games was that I just wasn’t sure of what ideas to employ against the London System.
Here is one of the games.
Rating 1786
Puzzle Rush Score 28
Today I played a few games and didn’t feel as sharp as I usually would. My accuracy scores reflected this too. In my games I have been trying two things in the openings. Nf6 against d4 and c6 against e4. Both of these moves are quite new to me and I’ve taken quite a few wrong steps in the openings.
I read a few pages of one of my favourite chess books “Better Chess”. The topic was “Pawn takes pawn” and it was looking at calculating which pawn to capture with, to push the pawn or to maintain the tension. The example was one of the main line positions in the Kings Indian Defense. In the Kings Indian you have to think about whether or not you want to open, close or maintain the tension in the position.