Nov
Chess goals for 2010
There is a few bloggers around (like Stratedy Fiend or DeepGreen) who has published their chess goals for the next year. I am going to play ape and here are my chess goals for 2010.
The most important one is to train chess regularly. Now I am in a stage when I train chess only if a) I have a free time (hard to find when you have a family, job and try to start your own business) and b) I overcome my laziness. Which is really not good. I will find some fix time, which will be dedicated to chess only. There is no chance to improve my game significantly without a serious training.
One thing is connected to chess training. It is a training log. Until now I don’t have any. But as a sub-goal I have a task to create and keep my training log.
Improve my endings. Was not said a lot about the importance of this stage of a chess game? Remember about it next time when you blunder in ending after 4 hours battle…
Finishing extending my opening repertoire. It is important to be able to play more than one-two openings. Firstly, you will learn new schemes and you will be able to understand chess better and secondly, the opponents will have harder task to prepare themselves for a game with you.
Play an official tournament where one game will be played each day. I have never attended such a tournament, all “my” tournaments so far were about one games weekly or so. I believe playing one game per day 9 days in a row is a complete different experience and I want to try it.
And regarding my ELO rating. No matter of what my rating will be in January 2010, I would like to add another 50 points during the next year.
As the last goal I have something secret at the moment. But you, readers of my blog, will reveal it as soon as I complete it ;)
OK, these are my goals. Do you have your own chess goals for 2010?
November 30th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Yes, I Do!
November 30th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
farbror: Yes, I see them on your blog! BTW: Nice blog, I have added it in my blogroll in the right column.
November 30th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
Thank you! That’s Nice!
November 30th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Well said, i fall into group a but suffer from b.
November 30th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Solid point about the endings! Good goals!
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December 5th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Nice goals.
We have same end goals. But sometimes with life etc. intervening the goals
begin to take a backseat. I have to recommit myself.
Good luck
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