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Status: Chess (2025 - March)

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Rationale for this Project


Summary of Progress during January - March 2025
  1. I spent 13.5 hours in 25Q1 on this Project, or related work (46 hours YTD, where for "YTD" - Year to Date - I mean the (academic) year that commenced in October 2024). That's 34.5% of the planned effort (50.4% YTD). Overall, 1.7% of my Project effort in the Quarter was directed towards this project (making 3% YTD) - as against 4.8% planned (5.6% YTD).
  2. I had scheduled 3 hours / week in 25Q1 but I only spent around a third of the allocated time to play a little on-line chess, but mostly to get to grips with "Grigoryan (Avetik) - ChessMood", which I was really enjoying but I’m finding learning opening variations really difficult and – over the last month – hardly touched it, being somewhat demoralised. I’ve also been spending much more time playing bridge, and I can’t do both.
  3. I have completed the ChessMood Endgames and Tactics courses. I had completed about 1/3 of the Puzzles related to the Tactics course but decided to focus on Openings.
  4. I’ve completed a first run through of the courses for White and Black Openings.
  5. I then moved on to the Mating Matador Course, which was fun and completed successfully. I started doing the puzzles but decided I ought to stop enjoying myself and return to openings.
  6. I’ve also continued to play the weak Bots on Chess.com as a way of improving my alertness. Unfortunately, it exposes my uselessness at opening theory – I can’t remember what I’ve supposedly learnt. I also blundered and lost from a winning position against a 1500 bot, which was a dispiriting disgrace.
  7. So, I need to repeat the ChessMood Openings courses a few times to allow them to sink in. Eventually, I’ll start playing properly on-line.
  8. Further details follow (for the latest Quarter: 25Q1):-
    Chess (Total Hours = 13.5)
    1. Chess - Admin
      • 24Q4 Status Reports: Chess (1 hour)
        → See "Chess - Admin" (1 hour)
    2. Chess - Training (Total Hours = 12.5)
  9. Progress (if any) in the current quarter can be obtained from the Chess section of my Summary Task List3.

Plans for the Near Future:
Summary of Progress to Date (since October 2018)
  1. I have now produced statistics similar to those for Bridge6, my Consolidated Results. Follow the PGN links for the actual games.
  2. Also, see what comes “free” with ECF Monthly Rating Database.
  3. Enough of an indication of progress has been given above, though see also my Chess Page7, which requires an update.



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Table of the Previous 12 Versions of this Note: (of 47)

Date Length Title
01/02/2025 00:28:48 8724 Status: Chess (2024 - December)
10/10/2024 00:47:31 8488 Status: Chess (2024 - September)
11/07/2024 23:08:10 8112 Status: Chess (2024 - June)
15/04/2024 00:34:34 8025 Status: Chess (2024 - March)
01/04/2024 20:08:10 7824 Status: Chess (2023 - December)
04/10/2023 21:59:02 9120 Status: Chess (2023 - September)
06/07/2023 00:43:12 8721 Status: Chess (2023 - June)
30/04/2023 01:06:14 8247 Status: Chess (2023 - March)
10/01/2023 23:35:31 8009 Status: Chess (2022 - December)
10/10/2022 22:32:10 8977 Status: Chess (2022 - September)
03/07/2022 01:29:17 8258 Status: Chess (2022 - June)
11/04/2022 00:01:26 8022 Status: Chess (2022 - March)



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07/04/2025 00:15:50 851 (Status: Chess (2025 - March)) Status: Summary (2025 - March)


Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Status: Bridge (Progress to Date: 2024 - September) Status: Summary Task List (2025: April - June) Theo Todman's Chess Page    

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Status: Priority Task List (2025 - May) Status: Summary (2025 - March), 2 Status: Summary Task List (2025: April - June) Status: Summary Task List (YTD: 24Q4 - 25Q2) Theo Todman's Chess Background
Theo Todman's Chess Page, 2 Website - Progress to Date (2025 - June), 2 Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5    

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