Chess landmark #1
After 47 hours of chess (2/3 of them within the last week), I’ve just passed a rating of 1,600 with Chess.com’s Chess Mentor! However, my other ratings are no where near this figure, especially my Blitz rating is poor, but one step at the time.
All these chess ramblings are inspired by The Dan Plan, an ordinary guy who is putting the 10,000 Hour Rule to the test, trying to become a pro golfer in 10,000 hours. I’m now doing the same, with chess. Admittedly, chess is not completely new to me, I played quite a bit as a kid, and have played a little here and there, but it’s been more than twenty years since I last took chess seriously.
Anyway, my ratings as of now, Friday, August 26, 2011, at 6 p.m., 47 hours in the pocket:
- Chess Mentor: 1,603
- Tactics Trainer: 1,173
- Blitz games: 1,178
- Standard games: 1,344
Clearly, I’m a slow thinker, as the difference between the Blitz games and the Standard games show. Also, it seems that tactics are my weakness. I think this is true, since I’m more of a strategic/positional player.