hello every body . this is a training journal i created to track my progress. Ive been training on the chess tactics server. and hve recently started to notate and analyze my games. i will post a few for comments. if you know of any good chess websites please post them. my short term goals are to win or at least do fairly well in an upcoming tournament . i will post all games from the tournament. my long term goal (long term being about 3 months) is to lead my high school chess team to the national championships . Im about 100% sure we will win the cty tournament its the state tournament im worried about which is why im devoting all of my time to chess. also if any body wants to play me i will accept al most any challenge just pm me. thank you thank you i hope you all help me out in my practicing and i will b watching almost all of your videos. well heres to your to chess success.

heres a recent game of mine . usually im a kia player but i decided to try some thing different.this is from about a year agoand i hope you omment on it . im white my opponent is obviously black. i dont think i had to say my opponent is black after i said im white bcause its fairly obvious. well i hope you like it. 1 e2-e4, c7-c6 2 e4-e5, d7-d5 3 d2-d4, qd8-c7 4 kng1-f3, bc8-g4 5 knb1-d2, kng8-h6 6 h2-h3, bg4-f5 7 g2-g4, bf5-c8 8 bf1-d3, g7-g6 9 knd2-b3, bf8-g7 10 bc1-e3, o-o 11 qd1-d2, knh6xg4 12h3xg4, bc8xg4 13 qd2-e2, bg4xf3 14 qe2xf3, h7-h5 15 0-0-0, knb8-d7 16 qf3-g3, ra8-d8 17 rh1xh5, g6xh5 (its just over now he has no counter play). 18 be3-h6, qc7xe5 19 d4xe5, knd7xe5 20 qg3xg7#

Glad to see you've started a training journal and good luck meeting your goal of making it to the national championships!

Black made some pretty strange moves in that game. Both Nh6 and the decision to play Bg4 and then move the bishop back to c8 were weird. Anyways, the way the score is written is a bit difficult for people to read. You might get more comments on the game if it's a little more readable (I hope you don't take offense, I just think you'll get more useful replies). One thing that would help is putting one more per line, like this:

1.e4 c6
2.e5 d5
3.d4 Qc7
....etc

Also it's easier for people to provide comments if they can play through the game easily with a replayer window. You can create a replayer here, although it requires a PGN file. Another option would be to include a couple diagrams with the game score, so people can see some of the key positions.

Hope that helps and I'm excited to hear more about your quest to make it to the national championships!

Hi biike

Good to see more training journals. Wish you luck on making your way to the national championships!

hello everybody i hope you all enjoyed my last game. i played (and unfortuneately lost) a great game against trial and error to day. it was a blindfold game for each of us. i think i had perpetual check somewhere in there if im wrong please notify me of it. you can find it in game replay and analysis. random lord posted it (thx) and i htink it was a very great game.

hello everybody i just finished a game on pogo which i would of made a link if it was worth ne of your time. that website isnt that good for chess i just go there to work on my blitz. i played a 6 minute game that i will post tomorrow (im going to try and post one or two games a day)i won the game with the black pieces. he was very bad in the opening he didnt know any of the lines and slim to none theory.

ok heres a game from about three months ago before i started my serious training. i hope you like it and comment on itoh and i have the black pieces. 1.c4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Qa4 Nd7 4.e4 Bg7 5.Ne2 Nf6 (i transposed this into a kings indian type setup and i love the way i play against his odd moves) 6.Nc3 0-0 7.Bg5 b6 8.Qc6 Ba6 9.Rd1 Rb8 10.Nf4 Bb7 11.Qa4 Nxe4 12.Nxe4 Bxe4 13.Qxa7? Ra8 14.Bxe7 Qxe7 15.Qxc7 Bxg2+ 16.Be2 Bxh1 0-1 white resigns. a beginner mistake DONT take your queen out to early. white got punished in that game.

you should try using the game replayer as Josh pointed out. Following the games would be much easier

hello everyone i have an otb tournament tomorrow. i tied for second in it last year but i came in fourth on tie breaks (fourth doesnt get any prize money) . ive been practicing very hard for this tournament. its the junior tournament for my city and this is the last year im eligible for it so i really want to win. if i win i get 500$ so i can buy some chess books with that. i tried to reach a solid 1500 on the chess tactics server before this tournament but im a solid 1490 so i figure thats close enough. i no all of the main lines for my kings indian attack and my kings indian defence by heart so i shoudnt get caught up in any of the openings. ive been studying mostly tactics and ive been watching a lot of josh,s endgame videos . i will post games from the tournament tomorrow or the next day .wish me luck[;

Good luck in the tournament!

Good luck

ok um the tournament was postponed do to bad weather . i will post the games after the tournament on friday

more time for preparation

ok hello everyone today i did an interesting evperiment. i went to chess tactics server. my regular rating there is 1500. when i first started there my rating was about 1300. i decided to just get problems wrong and drop my rating to 1300 and c if it took as long to get it back up to 1500 as it did the first time.it was incredibly easy to get my rating back up to 1500 while it was pretty hard the first time. this means that i am improving on that sight everyday by a bigger margin then just playing blitz chess . this doesnt mean that im going to stop playing chess but im going to go on chess tactis server a lot more and i reccomend it to everybody who wants to get better at chess.

great! Glad to see that the CTS is working. I agree, intensive tactics study is much more productive than just playing lots of blitz games, etc.