Thursday, December 28, 2006
Another disappointment...
Sadly, I will miss the last tournament of the year due to sickness and thus concluded playing in tournament in year 2006...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Up Next: Pertandingan Catur Pesta Pulau Pinang 2006
The last tournament of year 2006. Registration had been made and hopefully I can finish my last tournament of year 2006 within top 5 of the final standing...
Cheers!
Eu Hong
Cheers!
Eu Hong
Disappointment @ USM Nibong Tebal Open 06
USM Nibong Tebal Chess Open (23 Dec 06) concluded successfully for the organizer but not for me. Finishing with 6 out of 8 possible points at 13th place on the final standing was really a faliure...
Conclusion:
1) Get more rest the day before the tournament as I was pretty tired throughout the event.
2) Inconsistency is still a big headache for me...
Until Next Time,
Eu Hong
Conclusion:
1) Get more rest the day before the tournament as I was pretty tired throughout the event.
2) Inconsistency is still a big headache for me...
Until Next Time,
Eu Hong
Monday, December 18, 2006
New Machine @ Work
Finally I got a new machine(server) at my work place.
Briefly, following is the spec of it:
Duo P4 2.8GHz Processors
768MB of Memories (less caused shared display memory)
Not really powerful in the sense of hardware muscles but it is more than enough for hosting/running/developing IIS, MSMQ, SMTP, ASP, VB6, .NET... somemore is only for development purposes...
However, compared to my notebook, this is a powerful machine and the most important priviledge is I am the administrator of the machine as previously, on my notebook, I am missing certain compilers and need to depends on others... imagine, software engineer without compilers...
Until next time,
Eu Hong
Briefly, following is the spec of it:
Duo P4 2.8GHz Processors
768MB of Memories (less caused shared display memory)
Not really powerful in the sense of hardware muscles but it is more than enough for hosting/running/developing IIS, MSMQ, SMTP, ASP, VB6, .NET... somemore is only for development purposes...
However, compared to my notebook, this is a powerful machine and the most important priviledge is I am the administrator of the machine as previously, on my notebook, I am missing certain compilers and need to depends on others... imagine, software engineer without compilers...
Until next time,
Eu Hong
Lazy week...
Last week (10-16 Dec 06) was a lazy chess week for me, namely I'd only make 10 hours of chess related activities... the story started after reading an interesting article from the Internet about getting the IM title(approx. 2450) from a 2200 player within 2 years, I wrote my own "interesting" plan of becoming a 2200 player within 2 years, since I am only 2000+...
Here goes my "interesting" plan:
20~30 hours per week
1~2 hours per working day (Monday~Friday)
4~8 hours per weekends (Saturday and Sunday)
Out of the 20~30 hours, following activities are planned:
- Solving of puzzles
- Studying of Endgame
- Studying of books (mostly on positional)
- Studying of my own games and sort of covering weakness
- Opening Preparation
This plan was started since end of July 06 and after few months of executions, seems that my play was slightly improved (StarWalk Chess Tournament is the evident though it was only a rapid event.
Hopefully I will be more hardworking in the future...
Until next time,
Eu Hong
Here goes my "interesting" plan:
20~30 hours per week
1~2 hours per working day (Monday~Friday)
4~8 hours per weekends (Saturday and Sunday)
Out of the 20~30 hours, following activities are planned:
- Solving of puzzles
- Studying of Endgame
- Studying of books (mostly on positional)
- Studying of my own games and sort of covering weakness
- Opening Preparation
This plan was started since end of July 06 and after few months of executions, seems that my play was slightly improved (StarWalk Chess Tournament is the evident though it was only a rapid event.
Hopefully I will be more hardworking in the future...
Until next time,
Eu Hong
Joke of the Day
there is a little girl, a friend of my litte sister told my sister she is willing to queue up to be my gf if I'm willing after knowing how much pocket money I gave to my sister.........
Friday, December 15, 2006
5000 Tries @ Chess Tactics Server
Training Milestone... Just completed my 5000th try @ Chess Tactics Server on 20061213 (2 days ago)... by taking around an average of 1~2 hours per day for 5 days a week, I had managed to complete my 5000th tries after around a month...
On 20061213,
Current Rating = 1630
Current RD = 17.7
Success = 80.9%
Overall Ranking = 245
There are opinions from various sites where some people strive for high success >85% while some just go for higher rating with low success rate (<70%) with but my objective is to go for a balance between speed, success, and of course rating points...
Review:
Before starting of tactics training, I always get tactical oversight in my tournament games.
After some 4500 tries, I always manage to find tactical improvement OTB during my tournament games, examples are from last week's StarWalk Chess Tournament.
Mission @ Chess Tactics Server:
Success Rate: 80.9% -> 82%
Rating: 1630 -> 1700
Tries: 5041 -> 10000
Work rate: 1~2 hours per day as long as RD remains >20 during the tries.
Until then,
Eu Hong
On 20061213,
Current Rating = 1630
Current RD = 17.7
Success = 80.9%
Overall Ranking = 245
There are opinions from various sites where some people strive for high success >85% while some just go for higher rating with low success rate (<70%) with but my objective is to go for a balance between speed, success, and of course rating points...
Review:
Before starting of tactics training, I always get tactical oversight in my tournament games.
After some 4500 tries, I always manage to find tactical improvement OTB during my tournament games, examples are from last week's StarWalk Chess Tournament.
Mission @ Chess Tactics Server:
Success Rate: 80.9% -> 82%
Rating: 1630 -> 1700
Tries: 5041 -> 10000
Work rate: 1~2 hours per day as long as RD remains >20 during the tries.
Until then,
Eu Hong
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Star Walk Chess Tournament 2006 & memoirs
The StarWalk Chess Tournament 2006 was concluded earlier today... it has been a great day with me having a great tournament finishing 4th, beating some of the best players from the country... and getting a lot of prize.. bravo the star newspaper..
It started as a great day as I was early at the venue so I get the chance to meet up with some juniors from my secondary schools (we all dont know each other, just that they were wearing their school t-shirt :P)
They remind me of the time I started to get involved in chess. I initially started to play xiangqi (chinese chess) when I was 9 years old. My involvement that time was solely playing socially to finally representing my secondary school. Then around 15 years old I started to shift my interest to chess and due to xiangqi, I basically picked up chess quite shiftly as I was able to beat most of my friends after learning the moves (due to the method of thinking in xiangqi can somehow be applied to chess)...
Back to the tournament... The first half of the tournament was considered okay for me. Things started to get exciting when my next opponent was the famous stonemaster. BTW, the tournament was a 8 rounder with 20 minutes to each player. This is the first time I play 1.d4 in a tournament and the first time I had beaten stonemaster, all previous encounter was draw with me taking Black. Today however, I had beaten the stonemaster on his favorite line, the Stonewall Defence!!!
Next was another win due to my opponent missing a few tactical themes. Looks like my solving of 4500 puzzles at the Chess Tactics Server within 1 month really help, especially in this kind of rapid event.
My winning streak was beaten by my old nemesis and thus increasing my personal encounter deficit against him to +1 -3 =0
Final round was a roller coaster for me, first I won a pawn but I was under attack due to my opponent's strong bishop. Then with critical time trouble, I think I had less than 30 seconds on the clock my opponent refuse my draw offer (hoping that I will lost on time) but finally it is me who flag him!!! So finally +7 -1 =0 for this tournament. 7/8 !! with overall 4th placing among 207 players!!
Conclusion:
My chess study of 20 hours +- per week is not a waste of time as some had suggested studying on books is not that helpful... :P
Changing of opening from 1.e4 to 1.d4 was a right choice with me getting the position that I like!!
Until next time,
EuHong
It started as a great day as I was early at the venue so I get the chance to meet up with some juniors from my secondary schools (we all dont know each other, just that they were wearing their school t-shirt :P)
They remind me of the time I started to get involved in chess. I initially started to play xiangqi (chinese chess) when I was 9 years old. My involvement that time was solely playing socially to finally representing my secondary school. Then around 15 years old I started to shift my interest to chess and due to xiangqi, I basically picked up chess quite shiftly as I was able to beat most of my friends after learning the moves (due to the method of thinking in xiangqi can somehow be applied to chess)...
Back to the tournament... The first half of the tournament was considered okay for me. Things started to get exciting when my next opponent was the famous stonemaster. BTW, the tournament was a 8 rounder with 20 minutes to each player. This is the first time I play 1.d4 in a tournament and the first time I had beaten stonemaster, all previous encounter was draw with me taking Black. Today however, I had beaten the stonemaster on his favorite line, the Stonewall Defence!!!
Next was another win due to my opponent missing a few tactical themes. Looks like my solving of 4500 puzzles at the Chess Tactics Server within 1 month really help, especially in this kind of rapid event.
My winning streak was beaten by my old nemesis and thus increasing my personal encounter deficit against him to +1 -3 =0
Final round was a roller coaster for me, first I won a pawn but I was under attack due to my opponent's strong bishop. Then with critical time trouble, I think I had less than 30 seconds on the clock my opponent refuse my draw offer (hoping that I will lost on time) but finally it is me who flag him!!! So finally +7 -1 =0 for this tournament. 7/8 !! with overall 4th placing among 207 players!!
Conclusion:
My chess study of 20 hours +- per week is not a waste of time as some had suggested studying on books is not that helpful... :P
Changing of opening from 1.e4 to 1.d4 was a right choice with me getting the position that I like!!
Until next time,
EuHong
Friday, December 8, 2006
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