Studying Chess Made Easy - Accounting for Time

Studying Chess Made Easy happens to be a book I read from cover to cover not too long ago. It is by Andrew Soltis. The reality is that my last post, or the first post of this blog was in January of 2021. The question I have today, July 2022 (7/22/2022) is what I have done with my time since then. its been over a year and 7 months. Today coincidentally I purchased a calendar. The idea is to account for time. Am I doing better than I was on 2021? well in certain ways I am. I have purchased a number of books since then as well. A week ago I got a job at Panera Bread. It will be a part time job for me so 20, 25, or 30 hours a week. The situation at the moment is that I am waiting on my current manager to release the schedule for me on the 26th or 27th of this month. It will essentially let me know what my first day of work will be at Panera. The job is everything and nothing in a way. It is everything because I will use all the money I save from there to invest into chess. I can travel to many tournaments, I can invest in books, software, better pieces to study more, or even a super computer (128 core computer) to study and sell chess analysis. so in that way it is everything. really, the saving for the traveling is a lot. it might be the sole purpose of the job in my opinion. in other words why I stay there and what will keep me motivated going week after week. the job could be nothing because I am losing all that focus time and not devoting it to the game. However without the job I will never be able to afford playing. so in essence, I work to travel now, which is not that bad. So for the moment, the most important thing will be for me to get my first schedule from Panera, and perform there well. I dont have problems making it to work or keeping to a schedule, I have always been good with work and schedules, I worked for walmart not too long ago and also subway and I performed well on the job. my managers were happy so I believe I will do well at Panera. The calendar. well the calendar is a new tool I am adding to my books, sets, among other things in my chess studying toolbox. The calendar will be used to account for time. I will have it on my desk or next to my journal, and x out days that go by. this way I start embodying what time feels like as it goes by and I begin creating projects, and assignments, as well as goals, and tasks which I need to complete to keep moving forward. I am 36. I will be 37 in October. In 3 years, I will be 40. I was doing some thinking today on the chess and everything, and I came to the realization that sometimes it can be bad for you. or in other words counter productive or just plain bad. I was looking at how much you have to do to perform at a certain level and its a ridiculous amount of work. it look unhealthy. however if you take other things into consideration and see it from a different perspective, for instance, suppose I were a 2500 GM today and playing in active tournaments. I see the work that I have to do today as a 2300 player as the work I would be doing as a 2500 player to stay alive and in form, or in shape. having said that when you see the amount of work you can get the impression that its unhealthy. its a considerable amount. Can I be GM by 49? or by 50? there would be certain tasks I would need to complete. one is reading everything I have on the endgame, in other words, mastering the endgame. the amount of work is basically finishing off the encyclopedias from sahovski on the endgames. among some other small books here or there. thats a considerable amount of work. that can take anywhere from 3 to 5 years. Then I would need to create an opening repertoire, and research it. publish the research to notebooks,and commit the notebooks to memory. theres a considerable amount of work to do on the opening. then there is the praxis portion of chess. in other words how much i need to play to continuosly improve. also to perform, in other words you play live, over the board, or in person to perform and increase your rankings/ratings. this is another aspect. you also play a lot online, and practice games, aswell as small tournaments locally, to improve your game. then there might be some calculation training i might need to do. the idea is that calculation is the biggest skill a chess player has to master. by working on my calculation I might for instance, skip certain parts of my current preparation. for instance its possible to say that you will work on calculation to skip 3 to 5 years of endgame work. now to me, its all work that you do to win games at home, so I see it as just pending work. however to explain or powerful calculation is, you can very likely just work on that one skill together with openings, and your golden. I guess i would also read literature in the process. the most important thing so far for me, is to get the panera job. start saving, and begin studying on my extra time at home. the job is really close to my home so there are no problems there, and as soon as I get back I move on to reading and working on other parts of my chess. a good goal or task would be to see how much I can do from here to 40. If I can read the majority of my books, and finish the endgame work that would be ideal. a friend of mine gave me the idea of taking 10 lesson packages of chess lessons per chess coach until i find the one that can turn me into GM. I think its hard to find those but I am sure someone in the world should exist that might be able to do it. or at the very least each will have something to share that will be useful. this is something i can consider in the process.

Chess Grandmaster: Books and Tools for Games, Journaling, Logging and Ascension.

I would like to become international chess grandmaster I'm currently reading suggested literature for 2200 rating classes. The Yugoslavian chess publication known as Sahovski (sahovski.com) is a fascinating read considering that it has the encyclopedia of chess combinations which is suggested reading to get the master or candidate master to perform tactically at the international master or 2400 rating level. The encyclopedia of chess miniatures is publication which could promise to help teach how to create miniatures in your own games. Additionally there are other publications for instance in their same series 1000 the best of the best games is a book or publication with the 1000 best games of all time. It has to be fascinating to read this to see what talent is at the international grandmaster level or possibly even at the greatest heights of chess talent. Their very last publication is the greatest tournaments 2001-2009. The greatest tournaments is very likely a book which teaches how to perform and play at the highest level in all major tournaments of the world.

It might take about three months to read each book however every one of them has to be fulfilling for every student considering that they see themselves aspiring to be better and better players everyday. Having said this there are multiple tools and resources as well as software gadgets or tools or resources or supplemental helpful material such as websites like chess.com chesslecture.com chesstempo.com chessclub.com among others. Also, tools such as chessok.com’s rybka aquarium, with their opening book from 2004 which is a cap analysis mass computational assessment of positions to help players rank moves in the entirety of a data dump analysis of moves particularly in the opening phase of the game specially geared towards professional players. You also have other tools such as chessbase, which is a chessbase.com software and is known as the major tool used by professional chess players and it’s a data manipulation tool but more importantly a data organization tool for chess files and databases which are useful for expert, semi-professionals, and professional chess players. Moreover, I use and consider the lucas chess software to be a nice feature rich tool for youth players, as well as the tarrasch gui software which is good for solving positions or playing either side versus an engine, or a database or pgn database tool to master gaming or games, or interpretation of moves. Lastly, I like all the tools I mentioned very much, some of them are free.

Among many of the things that you take into consideration when photo journaling blogging documenting archiving or simply storing or chronologically saving your Journal entries or project management or logging sheets when it comes to goal setting and completion of your chess aspiration degree for instance, from beginner to expert, or from expert to master, or from master to candidate master or grandmaster Is a blogging interface as well as back up resources and tools, like evernote.com which is a tool for logging and storing notes which are useful and indispensable it has neat features for instance an unforgettable feature is your ability to photograph notes and the software when you upload the note OCR's the note and make them searchable through some sort of advanced algorithm or computing technology it's a beautiful feature from the software which is to have the ability to search through your notes as you upload them to the interface should they be handwritten scribbled or even possibly artistically created. It is a pretty neat and memorable feature when considering to keep the evernote.com.

Having said this, I use chessbase, from chessbase.com to log all my games and do all my professional work on chess such as annotation study and analysis of games and sequences, as well as uploading of content to become chess historian on the chessbase software from chessbase.com ( https://en.chessbase.com/ ).

When it comes to opening analysis, and beta testing of engines to find ideas in the opening and to study through the cap analysis tool or feature of the rybka aquarium from the rybka tool set from chessok.com. you want to check out their website, because it is an awesome tool set of gadgets for the aspiring chess master or professional. Like I said, and have expressed, the love of chess is a wonderful pass time, and you can find yourself fiddling and gaming and computing around or moving around pieces until you go from the one that you are, to the one that you want to be, which is the chess grand dragon as my uncle Craig Dallas Garrette would say. I use the rybka aquarium, a lot to see who their cap analysis from their opening book assesses positions which I study or want to play from my opening. Its like a numbers computational chart with plusses and minuses which help me guide myself through the data at choosing the very best of moves. It is awesome.

Moreover, as far as other tools, I use the tarrash gui interface tool set, which is free, and I recommend to fuss around with the buttons and neat features to see how you can implement it into your arsenal. I am a seasoned chess master, more than candidate master, more like FIDE Master, which is more than a national expert in America, which is 2200 USCF, I have entered the very last three titles of chess mastery. FM IM GM. I am at the FM (fide master) I want to get to IM (international master) and lastly, GM (grandmaster). You can find the tarrasch gui at https://www.triplehappy.com/ .

Very lastly, the last tool I would like to suggest for you friends, is the https://lucaschess.pythonanywhere.com/ which is called Lucas Chess. It is offered for free, with 52 engines, prepared to play and compete against, from start to finish with varying levels, from 0 to 3300 in elo rating score, or ranking metric of professional machines and players. In summary, I want to go from FM to IM to GM. I play chess semi-professionally. I have been a chess enthusiast for more than 10 years. I have read many books, and pdf’s as well as magazines and browsed through publications. I have spent over $2000 USD on libraries and resources as well as tools. I am ready for my next success in chess, which is to become an international master. Idealistically I am going for grandmaster by pushing harder. I spoke about the publications that I have to work on, which are the https://sahovski.com/ encyclopedias and books. Also the software tools found on the article, chessbase, rybka aquarium, tarrasch gui and lucas chess. I have more things to consider, and will post them as I photo journal and log my games and successes, plus aspirations in chess.