Ninety-Six Percent Club

96.0% attained tonight at CTS.

last 225 in a row correct currently, including last 1f/306s= 307 @ 99.67% at 1326.9 elo

"No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking" Anonymous Texan

Wordless Action

Handle Rating RD Highest Tries Success Latest (CET)
1 rudal 1658 85 1658 23 100% Jan 15 - 15:24
2 satanspawn 944 90 1045 60 100% Jan 20 - 00:25
3 BernardW 1293 66 1303 569 99% Jan 22 - 00:21
4 LookTwice 1236 39 1301 3,399 99% Jan 20 - 14:31
5 nune 1335 46 1351 303 98% Jan 19 - 16:51
6 smart 1442 68 1587 1,028 98% Jan 21 - 05:07
7 chessnerd 1487 65 1514 212 97% Jan 19 - 21:37
8 Smartmove 1078 92 1078 29 97% Jan 21 - 12:31
9 gilfer 1427 42 1434 87 97% Jan 21 - 01:09
10 Kobes 1365 45 1510 3,609 96% Jan 22 - 00:25










11 dogWaste 1316 18 1564 5,465 96% Jan 22 - 07:15
12 chessdog 1310 24 1403 37,100 96% Jan 21 - 21:20

13 tjeulesbetes 1532 53 1691 3,862 96% Jan 16 - 01:18
14 kuzumaki 1338 40 1388 5,210 95% Jan 19 - 10:27
15 TinDrum 1536 60 1536 43 95% Jan 19 - 03:40
16 hrnicek59 1338 86 1382 255 95% Dec 31 - 16:09
17 mauricio 1383 26 1383 1,263 95% Jan 20 - 14:49
18 AJLaN 1299 77 1332 97 95% Jan 16 - 20:07
19 Slowmouse 1340 87 1465 19,435 95% Dec 20 - 18:31
20 FireGarden 1469 55 1509 10,525 95% Jan 15 - 20:53

Very, Very Soon

5,012 at 95.7% and counting at CTS for dogWaste; very, very, soon.























1581 elo for dktransform at CTS.






















stay 'tuned', more to follow, soon...

Healing Correctly

Hand:
To all my good friends here: I am fine. The surgery went well. I am also back to work, and everyone there--too--is being supportive. While I have zero pain and little discomfort, I am trying to rest the hand, or arm, and so type very little. I have exercises, and am assiduous in doing them daily. Interestingly, I found a way to sleep that not only does NOT irritate the nerve, but seems to open it. I am better every day. While the R hand is the problem, the surgery was in the elbow. Needless to say, using my left stresses it more, so this is a balancing act. I am left handed and started using my L for my mouse hand in October--no disrespect to anyone, but I have said this again and again! No problem.

Chess:
I am playing daily. I played 124 bullet games my first two days back after thirty warm up rapids at yahoo (my warm up place)--about sixty a day+. I used to drink, as I have also said, so I have to be careful with addictive behavior. But really, as far as chess goes, you get in a groove, and hit it. The next day, I played only 13 games. Believe it or not, while I carefully and slowly analysized about thirty rapid games, I still perform a quick run through of many of those bullet games--using Fritz8, since even though they must necessarily be of low quality, some critical endgame positions occur, and I look at those carefully.

0/4 or 3/8 or 25/10 (bullet, rapid, standard), either way, however highly inaccurate, you still reach thematic endgames--every bit as worthy of careful study and review as slower games. I now have as many as 700 recorded games--with most of them played since November--but most of them were played in a short space of only three or four weeks, with CTS between. So I am not idle, believe you me, with or without visibility at blogger or CTS. I also resummed CT-Art 3.0--but this last time, with zero zeal much as I wish otherwise, so have to put it asside till great energy is there again--as is vitally necessary for it to be done properly, if you ask me. I don't want to memorize the problems but to experience the challenge of calculating them.

Not all that is unseen can be known readily. And not all of a seriouos chess student gets shared.

Wijk aan Zee:
How can you not love this line up? But I am sorrowful that Morozevich didn't attend, citing 'personal reasons'. I love this guy, and do not wish to disarage him. But how personal can it be? He was playing blitz six and one half hours ago at a well known chess site, right as Corus was playing? Fear of his opponents? Hardly. Engagement with presenting himself at his best friends wedding day? Or upset over appearance fees? Whatever the unknown mysterious case, I wished it was he, among ultra sharp Aaronian, Carlson, Anand, Kramnik, and similar pedigree instead of Tiviakov? But we will enjoy his highly personal use of Na3 in Sicilians along the way nevertheless.