First It has been indeed a week further to my initial announcement of utter destruction and domination. In week one I need to find the reason why I hung pieces as if they were French monarchs. And as such I shall reveal my findings.
Hanging pieces is a calculation issue (of which I am not an expert in) and since calculating moves in chess is a mixture of skills rolled into one such as
Pattern recognition
Analysis of positions
Calculation depth
Calculation width
There are probably more I am not aware of since the last one I didn't know of until Fridayishhhhhh. . .proly, Friday. . .proly.
I was aware of the first three but since my pattern recognition was fine and my depth was ok since I can play blindfold chess until the endgame in unorthodox openings (because I misheard by little brother and apparently there was no pawn on a3). I moved on and found variation width was a thing. The width in calculation is calculation multiple candidate moves within a single ply of a given variation. Quite frankly I have none of this whatsoever, which would explain how my pieces leap off the board as if my king had covid. I shall work on this in the coming weeks and will hopefully no longer miss crucial in your face details on the chessboard. This is an example of the concept.
https://lichess.org/study/g6h01OjL/obu0Jb0Q#52
Second I have come to realized that after 4-5 games of rapid I become extremely mentally exhausted and the quality of my play drops about 200 or so points so I can't have that and will pace myself.
Quote of the blog
-Alireza Firouzja Withdraws from Super Chess Classic Romania 2026.- Grand Chess Tour
R.I.P. Firouzja
Road of points left to go
I had gotten my rapid up slowly but someone who shall remain nameless tanked my blitz so the net gain looks bad
Chess.com rapid - 123
Lichess rapid - 65
Classical - 121
Blitz - 88
960 - 181
Total - 578
Net gain - -12
Bonus
I apologize for my tardiness on this week's issue. I've been extremally busy and having 8 work out sessions in the past 3 days (ok one of those time I was at church but I count it because I party like Jesus is risen!)
