Resolutions for 2009

1. No more than 3 ICC blitz games a day, and at least 4 games per week with time controls of G/30 or longer

2. Renewed focus and discipline in doing tactical drills daily – I’ve been a real slacker on this one. Shame on me, as it was the reason to start this chess blog.

3. Stop jumping from chess book to chess book without really finishing. Focus on one book at a time and get through it, no matter how long it takes. In other words, cure my chess ADHD :)

That’s it for now. It may not sound like much, but I believe it won’t be easy to pull this off - it’s hard to break certain habits :)

PCT Update

I have been slacking a little bit, but nonetheless I have now finished 8 units in PCT for a total of 735 exercises. I want to pick up the pace a little bit in the next few days to become as much of a tactics monster as I can for my tournament on Saturday :)

PCT: 5 Units Done

So I did 5 units this weekend for a total of 420 exercises. The last unit had some pretty cool mate-in-two problems. Not all that hard but interesting. We'll see how much of this I can retain...

Not sure why it shows one hour and 47 minutes for unit 4. I pressed the pause button at various occasions because I kept on getting interrupted; I guess the software still keeps track of the total time it takes to finish a unit, regardless of pausing.

Starting PCT...

So I started on my journey through PCT's tactical exercises this morning... Did two units out of module one. Very basic mate-in-one stuff - I did 150 exercises in a total of just over 19 minutes, for an average of 7.7 seconds per exercise. Of course it's possible to do it faster, but I like to spend a few seconds just letting the position sink in.

Anyway, I'll probably do a couple more units today.

Time to make some more tea.