Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

One month pathed, just yesterday, I returned from visiting Slovakia, friends, country, familly.

This week Tuesday I have played round 28 in club. After not playing twice and enjoying holiday, getting rest from computers I was quite fresh mooded. I have lost, but anyway I don't think I played that bad. I have got time trouble after move 30.

I played wit Mr.Heyman, nice old man with who I exchange occasionaly some e-mail and maybe in future will be able to play on internet with him. He is a bit stronger than me so maybe he is a good oponent to improve. He is very carefull in playing so good for finding my blunders :-) Check out my game with him at 2001-2002 game page.

Not very much about the company competition on these pages, right? Well you know it happens once a month :-) No no! No excuse. Next week it is a last match, round 9 I guess. This monday we were playing in Breda against strong team. After some reorganization in Ericsson the number of people willing to play chess decrease dramaticaly so we are even not able to find five people to play. So we played in four and started with a score 1-0.

Suprise, suprise we were able to finish with score 3-2 so it means we lost one, win one and made two draws. One draw was done by me. Check details in game section. We very proud as we expected in best one draw which would mean result 4½-½.

Sometimes it happens, yes and you have pleasure from the things you are doing :-) I don't know if it because I have bought about month ago a CD-ROM from Convekta called CT-ART 3.0 or it is just natural evolution, but I am playing a bit better and have also more pleasure from it.

This CD is used for training of chess tactics and was recommended by quite a few people. I must say interface looks nice but to understand how it is working took me about week and I must say I have some 15 years experience with software developing. But once I have understand how it works I enjoy a program, not the interface which I still consider as quite terrible. I think more simple and useful would be more advantage as fancy graphics. "Less is more" rule will help here for sure.

Last few times I played after my holiday I felt much better and results were also better. Take a look at club and ericsson section for details. I am againmore offen playing at freechess.org, if you have a mood richo is my handle there.

Today is the last round of company competition. I will be playing after board five. And yes it is the last one. So what I am not the best one here, at least I can play :-)

This week was a last round of company competition. Even we won this round we finished in a bottom part of the table.

Thanks to my oponent I have get som advatage at the begining, but It took some time to really won.

Yesterday was round 30 in a club. I made a fatal misstake around move 10 and rest of the match was tactical training for me. I think I did quite well after that. Of course I could not really turn result, but I liked the game anyway.

I played, I won even our team won, but we anyway finished at the bottom of table. There is only few weeks until seazon in club will be over, I sould prepare some training plan for summer so next seazon I will start better that this one.