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Chess Challenge – Day 17 – ELO: 681

Training

  • Tactics, Chess King Elementary 1 (30m)
  • Puzzle Rush: 17
  • Chessable Reviews (30m)
  • New Chessable course “Keep It Simple Black” (40m)
    • I’ll only do the d4 Quickstarters for now to complement the Lion e4 but might switch to this completely
    • Trained the London lines
  • New Chessable course “Introduction to Chess Calculation” (45m)
    • Chapter 1 on target identification
    • Seems very helpful already
  • Before game: Chess King Elementary 1 20 puzzles until no fail (2x)
  • Game & Analysis

Game 19 – 13.03.2024 – W – win

  • 4. Didn’t take the free pawn
  • 6. c4 or bb2
  • 7. Missed tactic Qh5+→ g6 → Nxg6
  • Very bad game but opponent disconnected → win
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Chess

Chess Challenge – Day 16 – ELO: 665

Training

  • Tactics, Chess King Elementary 1 (30m)
  • Puzzle Rush: 17
  • Horse-Vision app (5m)
  • Before each game: Chess King Elementary 1
    • Test of 20 random new puzzles
    • Only play if all passed (3x, 1x)
  • Chessable “Introduction to Chess Calculation” Chapter 1 (55m)
  • 2x Game & Analysis

Game 17 – 12.03.2024 – B -win

  • Opponent simply resigned after 3 moves

Game 18 – 12.03.2024 – B -win

  • 88.3% accuracy, 1250 rating
  • 6. Bringing the B back inside is best, retreating is a bad move
  • 8. h3 → rather develop the knight or second B (or a6)
  • 10. Could have revealed Q attack on g5 by moving the Nf6 to h5
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Chess

Chess Challenge – Day 15 – ELO: 618

Training

  • Tactics, Chess King Tactics for Beginners (30m)
  • Game & Analysis

Game 16 – 11.03.2024 – W – win

  • Accuracy 81.5%, 950 rating
  • Vs. Dutch defense, not sure what to do → Standard CZ move order leads to about +0.1 after 10 moves
  • Mixed up the knight positioning and had to “wing it2 in the opening
  • 5. f3 is inaccurate, better to go Nf3 or b3
  • 6. e4 would have been good (even though it’s a bit odd to move the pawn twice)
  • 10. Plan was to attack with b5 but this is a bad move. Nf4 better plan (threatening the fork on e6)
  • 13. e4 mistake → Qd2 better (I did consider it during the game)
  • 15. Nxe4 looses material (saccing exchange on f6 or taking with B is better)
  • 18. c3 traps the B
  • 21. Moving the Q is not the best move, instead bring knight to g3 or b5 with the idea of removing c6 to open the white diagonal
  • 23. Missed B en prise blunder (0:21 time left)
  • 28. Should play Ne4 immediately here (but found it eventually)
  • Should castle earlier (recommended since about move 5)
  • Strong endgame to win, lucky opponent blundered at the end