I did it....

Hey all!
My withdrawal program was going alright, I was almost finished with rehab, but it happened.  I spent the last 2 months sitting on my hands to make sure I resist the urge, and kept my money locked away so I don't fall back in the chasm of despair, but to no avail. All restraining measures have not held up.

Yes, I ordered (another) chess book. Actually two of them, if I'm going to break my no-chessbook policy, then why not break it all the way. At least they're not opening books, but a Best Of Capablanca and Best of Morphy.

I just finished really awesome correspondence game that I won, once Dr. Fritz finishes the diagnosis and I find one of those cool chessboard thingies for this blog, I'll post it.

What a day!

Mini circle #3 has begun today. I did pretty bad, but every mental activity I tried to do today ended in failure, its like a long-term brain fart. On the other hand, I finally beat the computer at 9X9 Go and I have carved my handicap done to 5 . Art thereany other any Knights who (try to) play Go?

Only 50 more problems and mini circle 2 is finished. Tomorrow will mark the start of the 4 day circle, now thats gonna be hard.
Got my grades for this semester, I did better than I usually do, even got my 5 in grammar.
Oh well, back to the coal mines.

Ugh!

Hey all!
Almost halfway through this mini circle only 5 more days. The problems seem easier, but I have noticed that any combination from a Mikhail Tal game is something is  something I would have never thought of. I'm not sure if I have mentioned it before, but some of the pawn promoting problems are more than 15 moves!

A new Knight has joined us at the round table , Sir Augusto. May his games be decided by brutal combinations! (In his favor of course)

RIP Bobby

They just said on the news that Bobby Fischer died. Im too shocked to right about my progress now.

                                         Robert "Bobby" James Fischer

1943-2008
R.I.P

Oh yeah!!!!

Only 12 more problems to do and mini-circle number 1 is finished! Some of these pawn promotion problems are pretty sick, 16-17 move combinations are way beyond my level of calculation ability. The funny thing is that those problems are between easy 2-3 move combinations.
It seems that Sir CVopeland has just finished his mini-circle yesterday. This calls for a celebration, everybody gets one of these (Its on the house of course!)


(good hungarian beer)

Corus

Hey everybody!
Spent the weekend at my granparents, played a couple of games with my grandfather. I won all of them and he's a decent player, a bit passive though, who'd rather wait for me to screw up then to launch an all out attack. I finished volume I of the Pongó series,  4 more days of relaxing pawn promotion, then its back to pins and batteries. Those were probably the hardest problems so far, they might even warrant a seperate mini-mini circle.

Corus started yesterday, hopefully the action is relayed by FICS. Too bad that 2 of the more entertaining player in the top 10-20 (Shirov and Morozevich) who are in good form. Hopefully there won't be any controversies,  I find all of that idiocity they dream up to be immature and stupid. I haven't heard of talking toilets that you can consult about chess and the built in chess software that belches the answer to the contestant.