Week One Complete

Managed to complete my first week of microdrills. Time required has fallen from 57 min to 30 min. I just hope I’m doing the drills accurately. Logged on to my regular correspondence chess website, and immediately played a move which set up a mate in one for my opponent. But other than that, I think I played pretty strong moves in all my other games (playing 38 simultaneously). Also played on FICS on 8^th Aug, here’s the game for anyone interested:

Carduelis (1402) vs. Farhadexists (1828 - ignore this rating for now, it only includes one completed game, posted previously) --- Tue Aug 7, 12:02 PDT 2007 (1:02 A.M my time)

Rated standard match, initial time: 15 minutes, increment: 0 seconds.

1. e4 e6 2. Bc4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bb3 Nf6 5. Qf3 c5 6. a3 Be7 7. h3 O-O
8. d3 Nc6 9. Ne2 Re8 10. Bd2 Bd6 11. Nc3 Nd4 12. Qe3 Rxe3 13. Bxe3 Nxb3
14.cxb3 d4 15.Bg5 dxc3 16.Nxc3 Be7 17.O-O-O Bf5 18.Ne4 Bxe4 19.dxe4 Qb6

20. e5 Ne4 21. Bxe7 Nxf2 22. Rd6 Qxb3 23. Rf1 Qe3+ 24. Kb1 Qe4+
25. Ka1 Qxe5 26. Rd7 Nd3 27. Rxd3 Qxe7 28. Rfd1 h6 29. Rd7 Qe2
30. R1d2 Qf1+ 31. Ka2 b5 32. R7d5 Qc4+ 33. Kb1 Rc8 34. Rd7 a5
35. Rf2 Qe4+ 36. Rc2 c4 37. Rb7

{White resigns} 0-1

2 wins in a row. I promised my opponent I would offer a rematch the next day, but I haven’t been able to log on since. I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome the new members, Magic Knight and Tacticus Maximus.

I’ve downloaded CT-Art 3.0, which was a big mistake on my part, as the temptation to jump right into the Circles is almost too much to resist. However, I will try my best to continue with the microdrills, trivial as they may seem at times.

***STATS***

7 days of Chess Vision Drills Completed

148 Days Left

Approximate Time Spent So Far on the Quest : 4.5 hours