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knock yourself out exploring different settings and continuations. when youve finished, please add coverage of 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 as well.
thank you.
P.S. I did briefly think your line item 3 said "Prepare to Attack Gary Lane". The "by" makes quite a difference!
I'm maybe a 1/4 through it and only in the 'easy' rating bit but there is still little bits I have looked over or needed a reminder of.
Below is the list of -
My 2022 Chess goals.
Finish studying the following books and drill as many as possible.
1) Reversing Mate - Sacrifices. Done April 2022.
2) Common Opening Traps and Blunders 1. e4 series. Done April 2022.
3) I'm not a Beginner Beginner but I'm a Beginner. Done May.
4) Tune Your Chess Tactics Antenna. Done June 2022.
5) Fundamental Chess Tactics.
6) Mastering Endgame Strategy.
7) Coach Yourself.
8) Study Chess with Matthew Sadler.
9) Sharp Middle Games: A Practical Guide to Chess Calculation.
10) 100 Endgames You Must Know.
11) Master Checkmates.
12) Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca. Done Dec 2022.
Drill the following books.
1) 1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations.
2) The Checkmate Patterns Manual.
3) The Art of Attack in Chess.
4) Chess Pattern Recognition for Beginners.
I aim to reach at least 20 -30 million points on the first 2 books.
These are my Chessable activities, besides them, I plan to study a few physical chess books that I already own especially -
1) Winning Chess Strategies, Tactics and Endings.
2) My System.
3) The 3 fundamental books in the Artur Yusupov book series.
Play only 1 or 2 games daily and analyse them as precisely as possible.
Play as many OTB tournaments as possible.
I was able to finish studying only 5 out of the 12 books I had aimed for on Chessable.
I wasn't able to drill many of the books I wanted and wasn't able to read any of the physical books.
I wasn't able to play any OTB tournaments due to no Open tournaments happening in my city.
This year I am going to keep working on the remaining goals I had set last year, plus finish reading/solving the physical copy of -
The Amateur's Mind.
1001 Chess Exercises for Beginners. ( I have solved 600 puzzles already, however, I wished I had this book on Chessable, it would have been so easy to finish and drill this book, frankly, I am too lazy to check the solutions to find out my accuracy level, lol. )
I recognized that the reason I wasn't able to reach my goals was that I did not have them in front of me as a daily reminder, so this year I am going to print them out and put them where I can see them daily.
I bought MCS in the BF sale and aim to finish it this year, along with CYOC - Chess Basics 2 and Mastering Minor Piece imbalances, 2 books that I beta testest in the last quarter of 2022.
On Forward Chess, I aim to finish reading -
1) The Greatest Ever Chess Tricks and Traps by Gary Lane.
2) Lasker's Manual of Chess by Emanuel Lasker.
3) Prepare to Attack by Gary Lane
I hope all of you have your goals set too for the year and keep a list of those goals displayed where you will be able to see them every day, trust me, it is too easy to get busy with other things in life and easily get distracted.
Goodluck and Happy 2023!
I would like a course for black based on the following:
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 c5 5. cxd5 cxd4