Semi-Annual State of the Gyration Report, Part III

The spreadsheet of my Chess Study Plan in graphic form--way down below notes [1] to [19]--obviously cannot be seen without slidding the view bar left to right or viewing back and forth, so we might suggest the reader first go to the full page view, shown by clicking here, and only after viewing it, skim or read the notes, some of which are like non-sequiters, but some others might be read without loss of profit to the reader. And obviously, I could have instead put the spreadsheet first with the notes after, or the notes within the sheet, but each of those alternatives has seqence problems, too. Wew.

Since I have already writen a narative of below and is substantially unchanged, I refer the reader to the Semi-Annual State of the Elation Report, Part I and the subsequent Semi-Annual State of the Divination Report, Part II.

Since this is really a summary of Parts I & II when the 'Part III yet to be writen' was intended as a seperate post (as the third of three conceptually distinct and seperate study units), I could just as easily have called this 'Part II.2'.

Instead of that, I've decided to call this Part III, in drawing attention to this as a series, whereby the next part is a part IV yet to be writen. Sorry this that isn't simpler! Maybe I can call them sections I, II, and III in my study units... and have four parts. So here is wew2! Is there a wew3? Read on.


















Notes in brief and rapid format:
[1] GM Game 1,210: this is done quickly. I do not linger. If I spend too much time on each game, I will never get to the end. The caviat is of course, I will view them all a second time, just as I did in the first 941 games, all viewed at least twice. Superficial thought it is (at 25 per week, it really is!) it nevertheless establishes wide familiarity with the classics and, of course, it does 'seep in'. Down the road, a second view will allow me to get ahold of 'the meat of it' much faster.

While 'too fast' it also gives me an inertial wheel for study daily, and provides tangible, meaningfull, daily activity, when 'stopping' is the bane of any major enterprise.

[2] CTS, main ID currently at 87.35%. While I took a break for ample bullet the last month, this will start again soon. I have instead done 'devil may care' guest sessions, so not a complete hiatus. CTS doesn't so much teach tactics after so many problems as tune the brain for live play, in exercising sight of the board.

[3] CTS second ID at 96.35%. Soon I will take this to the coveted 97.00%, and is great mind tunning. At such accuracy, it is the best salve for eliminating hope chess at a ten to twenty second time interval.













[4] Reading Euwe's Middlegame is a great pleasure for me. While I jump from diagram to diagram without a board, it gives me background resonance in this subject among daily live play in bullet.

[5] 88.00% at CTS is a firm benchmark. 94.8% for all tries in the next 4,500 gets me there surely.

[6] This is my last formal primer on endings, and all thereafter is advanced. I will use a board, and do this rapidly.

[7] Aught to be at 97.00% by then or sooner at CTS.

[8] This is one of thos graphically not large units which is enormous: Annotating and/or SLOWLY viewing the remaining games of Chernev's The Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played. I have already done the first twelve or thirteen. I spent half a year on game one... The rule is NOT to rush just as in my GM Game unit (cf. 1. above) the rule is to hurry. "Shereshevksy: 'do not hurry!'"

[9] I've been at a standstill for 1,001 Sacrifices and Combinations. While this is not permanent, I need to catch up. Then again, I have escalated my GM game review mightily as well as my live play. In making a plan, some things delay, so advance, but the key is to have a plan and write it down!

Such plans as this are not new for me. Not at all! I have done this spreadsheet twenty+ times, but this is a newly created public view, reflecting my current modus operendae.


















[10] CT-Art 3.0 similar to 8. above. The saving grace is that when I 'do CTA' I tend to do it in a deep way, the oppostite of superficial. I schedule it so far out in time for completion, since much else stands between that I just want to get done--i.e. the Seirawan Endgame book, Vols I & II of Euwe-Kramer, etc.

[11] Fine, Idea Behind Chess Openings: one of those non-urgent but important piece of work. But done quickly.

[12] I yearn for this book. But other work must come first. Structed activity = plan.

[13] CTS: benchmark at exacy 89.00% (50.0k not 50.1). I speed up as I get ahead of plan on accuracy and slow down when behind.

[14] I will already have done CT-Art 3.0 circle one by then, but this is just to place the physical book in context: carry it, read it, view it while doing other work. Nothing major. Other things in focus.

[15] Another book I yearn for. There is just too much work. The plan is too large. If I go to fast, I miss the journey. But if I go too slow, I am bound and hand tied temposchlucker is very good at cramming these books into his brain, and fast, but I find book work in chess in lieu of chessbase9 exhausting and depleting, my main area of contention. Errr!

[16] Dvoretsky CD. Gifted to me by FM Charles Galofre of Miami, FIDE 2338. Nothing fancy, this one just to be done fast among too many other tasks...


















[17] CTS: 90.00% The golden goal! As an end in itself, maybe worthless, but I like it... :) and will help me in my:

[18] blitz play (2/12, next unit). As soon as I am done with my 0/4 bullet unit, which is still undergoing closure on a very specific, clear, and tangible goal, I will only be playing 2/12, mostly at ICC then ramp up to standard and OBP, or tournements. Western Open in 2009? Not 2008, which I won't be able to attend. Then I can get my chessPawnOgraphy bumper sticker.

[19] Each of these are massive. Taken together, the work of five years or more. Too far out to plan, but put here as iconographic rather than factual. A chess dream. I do have much of life to live OUTSIDE of chesss, and balance within drive to excellence must exist, in juggling nutrition, finance, work, relationships, and other creative areas or what I formally call leisure since, however intense, the way leisure is expressed is discretionary.

Warmest, dk

You know who you are. You all talk to each other, and comment after comments all over, but one line comments from each of you in recent week or so, and to me, when I read and comment thoughtfully and constructively often and in amplitude and with care leaves me feeling that you guys are being a bit narcisistic. maybe it is not that, but simply lazyness or indifference or insensativity. Its like you all are in junior high school, or the senior prom, when you are either 'in' or 'you are out' and, if you are 'half in' it is only because 'they' have use for you. I work my ass off here but I am only 'in' when you have use for me, so it is totally superficial. I think about stopping blogging or blogging here because of this, and it leaves a sincerely bad taste in my mouth. Sorry. But I believe in exchange, and quid pro quo, and, in the end, while I DONT need to write here to place my plan into resolution, or anywhere for that matter, I really don't wish to forgo feedback from this community, so I carry on. I have learned from all of you, but I am contemplating a complete change in how I relate to all of you. All.

Think about it.

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