BREAKING NEWS!!

Oh man, my life is confused @_@

Actually i'm dropping on college to enter another, in the meantime i mess up with pieces...

There's now a new tournament that I MUST participate! It's the PANAMERICAN School Champioship! And it'll be at São Sebastião do Paraíso - BRAZIL!
This city is very far from where I live, it'll be a lot expensive, but it's my last year since in 2009 i'll be a U20, and the tournament is U19.

I'm not well prepared for this, but's a tremendous nice experience and i'll play 7 OTB games with people from different coutrys, this will help me a lot to see where i'm going wrong on OTB.
The time control is 65'KO.

It'll cost me 3,75 months of work hehe, but it worth the costs!

Hope you'll help me analyze the games later!

Because of this tournament i'm doing CTB exercises as much as i can, like likeforests did before the World Open, just to prevent hangin' pieces and all. Obvious i'm not a good player as him, but CTB fits me well!

I have 25 days to the tournament, need to study chess and other things and I'll post EVERYDAY to have a registry of the preparation.

Sorry for the english =P
That's all!

EDITED: Now i'm damourax on FICS

Time to get back!

Hello fellows knights, despite the time I was away from chessblogging I made some nice stuff. Finished the 1st tactics module on PCT and started the second, it brought great improvement to my play.

My improvement plan now consists in 2 units of PCT (tactics and strategy), Chess move by move book by Abramov, the Powerplay DVD series (The first is amazing for attacking players, i'm learning how to play some positions and continue the attack), some games on Roman Toran's strategy books and a few rapid games (21 min) on buho21 dayly. It takes me about 3h to finish it, I can't do it everyday (I'm starting a new job and college this week), but I'm doing my best and i'm proud of it! ;)

A new champion was born, congratulations to Nemo, who is a Dad now! Best of luck for you and your family! =] At the age of 3 he'll start "eating" paws hahahaha.

A Brazilian team is doing an amazing job at Europe! They'll be traveling around playing a lot of tournaments and hopefully trying to made GM norms. They are:
GM FIER, Alexandr 2558
IM MEKHITARIAN, Krikor 2504
IM DI BERARDINO, Diego 2471
IM DIAMANT, Andre 2393

You can find more informations here and here.

Go Brazil!