New Year’s Chess Resolution

New Year’s Chess Resolution

In following my friend, Farbror The Guru, I too hereby invites all fellow chess improvers to join the New Years Chess Resolution Movement! I also strongly believe in simplicity, goals and peer pressure. I kindly invite blogging chess improvers to do the following:

1. State a Long Term Chess Goal (possibly linked to a suitable number of short term goals)
2. State a Chess Promise
3. Defining a penalty for failing the chess promise

Hopefully the members of the movement will blog about their efforts and support fellow improvers with feedback on their blogs and or Tweets. Hope to hear from you.

My Chess Goals for 2010: Goal:
Seriously study endgame and win at least one CICL match this year.

Promise: Five times per week: -
Study: 30 minutes daily -
Play: 40 minutes daily
Keep Public Study/Play Log
Play 3 Standard Time Control games per week minimum

Penalty: Give away one of my favorite chess sets.

Bishop Sacrifice Tactic

Lately it seems that the studies I have been doing are paying off! Our study group is coming along with Silman's Complete Endgame Course. My lessons with various NMs and Experts must be doing something. Below are a couple of games that I played this week and wanted to annotate them to share.

For the past year or so I have been studying two openings; the Vienna and the French Defense. The following examples are a good lesson in how they can be used. Yes, I know that my opponent may have found a way to stop me but he didn't. Enjoy.

Hope you enjoyed this little posting.

William