Posted on July 21st, 2010 by Richard
I haven’t posted in a while, partly because I have had big problems with WordPress themes for my chess blog. I still have those problems!
Anyway here is a chess update about how to improve my rating:
My chess rating is slowly going up. As I play better, my rating improves as I start to win more (& lose less). My problem has been to identify how do I improve my chess? I know at my level I make weak moves but I need to know why my moves are weak and how to change and make stronger moves.
I believe I have finally realised that I need to improve my game analysis through better assessment and calculation. In short I have not been good at analysis, assessment and calculation and my weaknesses in these areas let me down. More or less up to now I have been playing what I ‘feel’ to be sound moves without thinking much about my game plan and the opponents plan and crucially without calculating through my moves enough! In effect I play the whole game on ‘auto-pilot’ mode and while my opening knowledge is reasonable, my mid and endgame play is much weaker and so I struggle and often lose from good positions! I look forward to changing this by thinking & calculating my moves before playing them! I’m sure this will make me become a better player and I look forward to detailing how I can do this and sharing it here!
Meanwhile here is a win of mine in Alapin Sicilian B22 opening:
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[Event “rated blitz match”]
[Site “Free Internet Chess Server”]
[Date “2010.07.19”]
[Round “?”]
[White “me”]
[Black “AN”]
[Result “1-0”]
[WhiteElo “1297”]
[BlackElo “1311”]
[ECO “B22”]
[TimeControl “300”]
1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 g6 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. Nc3 a6 8.
Ba4 Bg7 9. O-O b5 10. Bc2 Nf6 11. h3 Qc8 12. Bg5 O-O 13. Qd2 Bxh3 14. gxh3
Qxh3 15. Nh2 h6 16. Bf4 e5 17. dxe5 dxe5 18. Bg3 Rad8 19. Qe3 Nh5 20. Rad1
Nd4 21. Bd3 b4 22. Nd5 f5 23. Nxb4 f4 24. Bxf4 Qxe3 25. Bxe3 Nf3+ 26. Nxf3
Rxf3 27. Nxa6 Nf4 28. Nb4 g5 29. Bc4+ Kh7 30. Rxd8 g4 31. Bxf4 h5 32. Bg3
{AN resigns} 1-0[/pgn]
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