Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

Today I have played quite good game. I was playing, at least as I felt, on the same level as my oponent. The result was draw.

I am trying to do something which will hopefully lead into improving in my play. I have read article 400 points in a 400 days . I really agree with observations and conclusions of the author and I hope I will be able to keep to his aproach.

So after a difficult period of my live I feel like getting back here and focus again on the nice things which live is bringing to each of us.
Today I am playing again in a local chess club. As a mentioned elswhere on these pages, I am playing very bad these days. But I am not giving up and hopefully it will turn.

Yesterday I have played at a nice tournament in Schiedam (close to Rotterdam). It was five rounds with 25 min per person, per game. I went there to have almost whole day play chess and try to make no errors in openings. Very nice was that all players were divided into groups per six players based on their ratings.

I have played quite good, but anyway I wasn't able to use properly my 25minutes, almost all the time I was playing too fast. Also I made few very bad moves. I still finished with 2.5 points which was not that bad at all. In my group were three players stronger and two weaker than me.

Yesterday I had no oponent in club, so I practice some positions and made my evening training of tactics. As addition I get into discussion with a guy who is leading a kids chess class in our club. Was nice evening even without playing long game. Hope I can see some results of my tactics study in my play.