Bill Wall's Chess Page
It’s been almost a year since my last update, so it’s high time I let you know how my chess is going. I’ve been concentrating on studying programming at 42 in Paris so haven’t had a huge amount of time to dedicate to chess. Still, I hit a new peak rating of 2096 in January, and think I am improving gradually in areas such as time management and ‘sitzfleisch’. By way of an example I give the following recent highlight:
On the other hand, I am still more than capable of having disastrous games. At the last 4NCL weekend I wasn’t in the right frame of mind for playing chess, and so tried to finish both games quickly. The result was the following car crash of a game and a marginally better effort the following day accompanied by a rating loss of 20 points.
My current efforts to limp over the 2100 mark remind me of my mindset after I passed 2000 for the first time: I was very keen not to drop below 2000 and so made some conservative decisions, with the result that I slowly bled points down to around 1950. At that point I set my sights on the 2100 mark , after which my rating started going in the right direction again, eventually reaching 2091 in December 2016, up from 1957 in September 2015. That’s a simplified version of what happened, of course, but I thin
Bill Wall's Chess Page