Thursday 12 February 2015

Training Charts

Since 19th January I have been concentrating on Standard Tactics, Endgame Tactics and limited Blitz.  I have also been looking at Chess Mentor on chess.com and the 5 daily Blitz tactics (this is by far my weakest discipline).

Here is the table of progress.

19th January 2015
chess.com chesstempo.com chess.com endgames.com
TAC
TAC
BLZ
EGT
5
10
3
10
3
7
1
8.5
1414 1600.7 1415 1050

12th February 2015
chess.comchesstempo.comchess.comendgames.com
TACTACBLZEGT
510320
2818
14071703.414801589

As can be seen from the above table, standard tactical skill has increased dramatically as I reacquaint myself with the patterns.  All results have increased in < 1 month apart from Blitz tactics which have essentially remained the same.  I will be embarking on a course of timed tactical online puzzles to remedy this. Tactically, I feel that I am well on my way to reaching my 1750 grade for standard tactics.  Endgame tactics have also been improving dramatically, but I still have a lot of work to do in this area.  As for Chess Mentor (not listed above - I have managed to clock 1804 in my first evening ... )