It doesn’t seem like I’ll have any time to practise my skills during the daytime, as I work full time from 8-6 six days a week, so it’s 1 night gone, 154 nights left. According to my calculations, I should finish on Jan 5, during my holidays, so I’ll have plenty of time to work on Circles 5-7. Impressions of my first night? (I wonder how many people with too much time, among other things, on their hands, will google the term “my first night” and come to this blog :) Anyway, took me 57 min to finish my first Concentric Square Exercise. When I first read about the drills, I was a bit intimidated, but I actually enjoyed it. Only thing that worried me was that my first night nerves may have led to missed opportunities. Therefore I have decided to post my solutions, perhaps someday someone may wish to match the results with his own. Also, it would help to see if I missed out on anything. Only the “Rook Solutions” today.
Rf3 : Qa8, Qb7
Rf7 : Qa2, Qb3
Rb7 : Qg2, Qf3
Rb3 : Qg8, Qf7
Rc2 : Qd1, Qd3, Qb3, Qf5
Rd2 : Qd8, Qd7, Qa5, Qg5
Re2 : Qd3, Qb5, Qd1
Rg2 : Qa8, Qb7, Qh8
Rg4 : Qh5, Qf5, Qd7
Rg5 : Qa5, Qb5, Qd2, Qd8
Rg6 : Qf5, Qd3, Qh5
Rg8 : Qa2, Qb3, Qf7
Re8 : Qd7, Qb5
Rd8 : Qd1, Qd2, Qd3, Qa5, Qg5
Rc8 : Qd7, Qf5
Ra8 : Qb7, Qh8, Qg7, Qf6
Ra6 : Qb5, Qd3
Ra5 : Qd8, Qd2, Qf5, Qg5, Qh5
Ra4 : Qd7
Ra2 : Qb3, Qf7, Qg8
Coming up tomorrow : “Bishop Solutions”
Or perhaps I should spend less time posting gibberish on my blog and practise more tactics. I wonder how this’ll all end.
I've just noticed that the solutions to the drills already appear on Rise and Shine Knight's Blog. Looks like he's done an excellent job there, I've already noticed two mistakes on mine.
***STATS***
1 Day of Chess Vision Drills Completed
154 Days Left
Approximate Time Spent So Far on the Quest : 1 hour.
3 comments:
Welcome. It is fun to read those old post and see the challenges over a long period of time.
Good luck,
Jim
I have found these solutions to the Concentric Square exercises, posted by The Rise and Shine Knight, to be very helpful in knowing that I was doing them correctly.
A good thing to worry about: getting more involved in blogging, wasting time that could have been used studying. I should have a rule: a 10:1 ratio of time spend on chess improvement to time spent blogging!
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