Long time no see...
Sheesh, has it been a month already since my last post? Wow, time flies when you are having fun.
I'm still playing my weekly game with OJ, and also a weekly game with fellow knight Chris Kilgore. Chris and I are practicing various openings, and somehow I've gotten myself into the Sicilian Dragon (as if I have hours of free time per day for openings study...). We had a great dragon game two weeks ago. I lost in 19 moves if I recall correctly, but it was one of the most fun games I've played in a while. I have black this coming Sunday so maybe the dragon will re-surface again. Currently I'm down 4.5 - .5 against Chris (I drew as white against his Berlin defense :-), but I'm learning a lot and having fun.
Someday I'll get around to posting games- really.
Anyway, hope everyone is doing well.
posted by fussylizard @ 9:13 PM
8 Comments:
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
You've been officially spammed!
The Dragon is calling you...
:)
Cue Viking Ship and music.....
"Spam, spam, spam, spam, spam..."
Just missed the one month rule. Good to hear you're having fun.
Pale, Yeah, just barely missed it!
Sheesh, what's with all the spam? I got this first one up top, and I got another email about "time management", probably from some automated tool (since the sender clearly didn't realize my topic of time management had to do with chess, not running my life!).
Oh, and Chris, yeah, I know it is... :-)
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
FussyLizard,
Great blog, best of luck. This might be incredibly basic, but have you already gone through the Novice Nook articles on chess cafe by Heisman? I think they're very helpful.
Do you have a USCF rating? Just curious.
Thanks for the good read.
atreus,
Yeah, I have read them- they are great. So great, in fact, that this Saturday I'm taking my first lesson with Mr. Heisman himself! I'll let everyone know how it goes.
I don't yet have a USCF rating. Based on my weekly slow games with Chris Kilgore (rated about 1820 OTB) I'm probably somewhere in the 1500s. But I hope to play in a tournament the first week in December which would give me a rating.
Thanks for stopping by!
Regards,
Chris
Post a Comment
<< Home