After all I played idividualy and made some horrendous blunders. The first game I won easily, the second I didn't saw a pin after Bxc3 (if Qxc3 the game will go on) and lost the queen. The third I was in a better endgame with an outside passed pawn and my opponent had only 5 minutes (i had 10), blundered my bishop and lost. The third I was a rook up, and blundered my queen for free like a grandmaster did these days. The forth game was equal, i had chances but couldn't make, lost again. And then i played a blind guy (pretty nice to see that he's playing) and won.
I could be the second or third, classified to the brazilians and face some IM's in the next month, but i gave up pieces, oh god.
I'm not felling very well with this result, i know i could play better, the time when i gave pieces was suppose to be gone. Maybe is because i play 5 OTB games in a space of 2/3 months. I'm thinking about quit chess. I train everyday, do that's exercises from CT-art (now CTB), play on chess.com and on the real games i drop pieces! I don't understand why it happens. Damn it!
domingo, 25 de maio de 2008
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There is nothing like OTB.
People are different, though, and have different ways of learning. Best thing until you figure it out is go with as much balance as possible.
From the errors that you describe, switching to CT-B was a good idea. Of course you are good enough to spot all these things... but the point of circling through CT-B is to make it automatic. I'm playing in the World Open in a month and in preparation I'm not doing hard tactics--actually I switched back to CT-B! I'm not so afraid of facing great opponents that find a mate-in-five or an incredible piece sacrifice leading to a win, but the psychological damage of overlooking a simple pin or skewer would put me 'on tilt' for a long time.
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