I avoided playing on FICS for the longest time, then all of a sudden I found myself playing almost nonstop for the past two weeks. I must taper off because it will curve my spine, rot my mind and make me go bald! ( well... I exagerate)
I need to get back to the discipline of my training routine. I won last night's came only by dumb luck as I was playing for cheap shots ( like i did on FICS) I ended up missing having my Queen and Rook skewered. I got lucky because the kid droppped a rook and thus I was up a piece.
The previous week I had a good attack forming against a 1700+ player but I couldn't sustain the intiative. The problem with the Smith Morra ( as well as other Gambits) is once the rush dies out, you have to play with a pawn down.
So its back to the Spartan regimine of GM-RAM, Ct-Art, going over GM games of my openings and of course the Alburt 300 Pocket Chess Training with Olga Zoueva in her sexy black dress on the cover. That's why I bought the book. ;)
-BP
3 comments:
I think it's good to let out your inner scholastic player once in a while -- or way too often. Sometimes a few time scramble blitz games are just what I need to remind me why I love playing chess. In a way it soothes the brain as a distraction from intense study.
you are not alone...i binge on internet chess and have to hide it. sometimes, my wife will be telling me not to play internet chess, and i lie to her and say i'm looking at porn, but she knows me too well and doesn't beleive me...we all have our demons...
on a serious note: i cannot play chess daily, weekly, or even monthly. i tend to ONLY train for MONTHS then (of course, in a very serious way, but with diminished stress in a way), when i thirst for battle, i play every single
day for one to two months (and get a great mind workout, but in the end exhausting, and notice my brain chemistry modified.
im not kidding, chess affects our brain chemistry--as in the Braveman Accessment, of the four major neurotransmitters found in synaptic vesicles: dopamine, acetylcholine, GABA, and serotoin.
sometimes, as you suggest, we cannot stop and play twenty or thirty games in a night. i come in to work the next day and describe "IT" to my of course non-chess pals, and they dont get it.
i like intermitent chess, as real chess is just too intense for daily fare, for me at least--one mans opinion.
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