Rating the metrics.
Posted: Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:57 pm
When I ran my own business I revelled in measuring different parts of the companies performance in order to ensure every part of what we were doing contributed to the health of the business.
Just like everyone else I am trying to improve my chess. My openings are in my opinion fine for my level, Despite regularly playing people 20-30 ECF higher than me I have only come out worse from the opening a handful of times in hundreds of games. And Therefore I am concentrating on tactics and end games, Despite opening books being an easier read.
I would like to measure the effect of my practice and study on different elements of my game. I use "Chess Tactics Pro"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emmanuel-Mathi ... B00KNSOMLM
and Chess Tempo for measuring the progress of my tactical training. 5 problems a day on each (not for training but for measuring the outcome of the training). I use the Chess King "Total Chess Endgames"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... hessending
for measuring my Endgames, and also do some of my studying on there. It has quite a lot of good teaching content as well as the tests. But I am not very happy with this as a tool to measure progress because it gives points (just less) for wrong answers when compared to not having done the test before.
I am.also using games against my phone on this software
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... tory.chess
to measure my game in a more holistic fashion.
Can anybody point me to software or websites that will give me a metric on Endgames where I am unhappy with what I have and Openings and Strategy where I currently have nothing to measure progress or otherwise.
Currenrly here is what i do to study.
OPENINGS
Play 10 moves against different engines on chessbase and just try to not to be worse than -0.30 after ten moves. I can now do this fairly easily. I also have read and studied a few nice books on the Openings I choose to play.
TACTICS
I am using the tactics portion of the chessimo software and doing a unit (90-480) puzzles a day.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... essimo.app
I have also twice read "chess tactics from scratch" but only got to the half way point of the book then lost my way. Maybe I will start from the middle on my third attempt .
STRATEGY
I have completed the first three books of Yusupovs chess course. Which has some strategic units. And I have also read some simple Chess strategy books like "Teach yourself better chess - Bill Hartson" and "Weapons of chess - Bruce Pandolfini".
ENDGAMES
The app mentioned above and reading up to my level in Silman's endgame course.
Any comments on what I do and what I might be forgetting to do or measure would be welcome too .
As you can see from my rating history, whatever I have been doing hasn't worked so far , but I am motivated again as it is January.
Just like everyone else I am trying to improve my chess. My openings are in my opinion fine for my level, Despite regularly playing people 20-30 ECF higher than me I have only come out worse from the opening a handful of times in hundreds of games. And Therefore I am concentrating on tactics and end games, Despite opening books being an easier read.
I would like to measure the effect of my practice and study on different elements of my game. I use "Chess Tactics Pro"
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emmanuel-Mathi ... B00KNSOMLM
and Chess Tempo for measuring the progress of my tactical training. 5 problems a day on each (not for training but for measuring the outcome of the training). I use the Chess King "Total Chess Endgames"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... hessending
for measuring my Endgames, and also do some of my studying on there. It has quite a lot of good teaching content as well as the tests. But I am not very happy with this as a tool to measure progress because it gives points (just less) for wrong answers when compared to not having done the test before.
I am.also using games against my phone on this software
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... tory.chess
to measure my game in a more holistic fashion.
Can anybody point me to software or websites that will give me a metric on Endgames where I am unhappy with what I have and Openings and Strategy where I currently have nothing to measure progress or otherwise.
Currenrly here is what i do to study.
OPENINGS
Play 10 moves against different engines on chessbase and just try to not to be worse than -0.30 after ten moves. I can now do this fairly easily. I also have read and studied a few nice books on the Openings I choose to play.
TACTICS
I am using the tactics portion of the chessimo software and doing a unit (90-480) puzzles a day.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... essimo.app
I have also twice read "chess tactics from scratch" but only got to the half way point of the book then lost my way. Maybe I will start from the middle on my third attempt .
STRATEGY
I have completed the first three books of Yusupovs chess course. Which has some strategic units. And I have also read some simple Chess strategy books like "Teach yourself better chess - Bill Hartson" and "Weapons of chess - Bruce Pandolfini".
ENDGAMES
The app mentioned above and reading up to my level in Silman's endgame course.
Any comments on what I do and what I might be forgetting to do or measure would be welcome too .
As you can see from my rating history, whatever I have been doing hasn't worked so far , but I am motivated again as it is January.