Monthly Archives: July 2007

Questionnaire Tag—Part 2

By Steve | Published: July 28, 2007
Continued from my previous post, which answered the first two questions. 3. What is the single most helpful method of improvement that you have ever used? Working my way through several tactics books in a sequence recommended by Dan Heisman: Bain, Chess Tactics for Students. Repeated this set seven times until I could solve all the problems in [...]
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Questionnaire Tag

By Steve | Published: July 25, 2007
“Questionnaire Tag” has been floating around the chess blogosphere lately. Thanks to Joshua (Chess Praxis) for tagging me. 1. How long have you been playing chess? Have you played it consistently since you started, or were there lulls in your play? How did these lulls affect your performance? I started playing chess seriously when I was a [...]
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Black to move and win

By Steve | Published: July 21, 2007
I sure do wish I’d found this during the game!
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Opening review: World Open round 1

By Steve | Published: July 8, 2007
I mentioned in an earlier post that I was thinking about different ways to review my opening play. Roughly speaking I want to try something like this after each game: Indentify the first unfamiliar position. (Out of book, in other words) Evaluate the results of the opening—as the game transitions into the middle game, how do both [...]
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World Open Wrapup

By Steve | Published: July 4, 2007
I just finished my 2nd World Open. (I played previously in 2005.) Using the wallcharts I counted about 1000 players. There were about 190 in my section (U1800). It was a tough tournament for me. I had 1 win, 2 draws, and 5 losses. Some vacation! I didn’t get to do much socializing here. I found the [...]
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