Still...

Hey there,

so far everything is going well. Real life is giving me multiple tasks, but it's slowly easing out.
My plan when i wrote the first blogpost was to start playing people online on Lichess around start of february. Well, that's now and i totally could. Mostly what i was doing the last couple of weeks about chess is puzzling here and there. Since this is mostly middle game related i figured that there are still huge gaps in my opening and endgame understanding. Sure, i could just go ahead, play online and analyse the games. But i prefer to get a round up before. It seems to be procrastination, even to me. I mean it might be, but i don't feel competent, confident and relaxed enough to do that. And since i want to have fun and doing it seriously in the same time i am going to delay my debut in online play.
Watched the series Queens Gambit, quite cool actually.
Also saw a few videos about games of Capablanca, i honestly don't know much about historical chess games (yet), but somehow this man is playing very cool and relatable chess.

In order to improve more without actually playing humans i got different things in mind, which are not that big time consumers and can be very well done inbetween:

-finishing the Duolingo chess course, which claims to leave you with an elo of 1500
-Watching intensively all videos of Daniel Naroditskys Speedrun Challenge up to elo 2k and taking notes about everything which seems to be important
-focusing on learning the coordinates, which is still a gap in my head. Need to understand notations more quickly, especially as black
-playing around a little with the analysing engine, in order to be ready when i am really using it to analyse
-look into chessbase
-finishing a certain chess book in my bookshelf, using a chessboard to follow the notations
-watching some more videos, for example about history of chess, openings, endgames...
-watching into my mental game
-doing some more puzzles
...

Chess could very well become a new rabbithole for me, lots of people reading that can probably relate to that. I have completely no problem with spending huge amounts of time, i just don't want to tilt my way through the wonderland. I can tilt pretty hard if things don't go my way, so i want to prepare as good as i can to stay mentally focused. No need to rush or put myself under pressure, so it's about the way not the goal. Reaching some magical elo number is not necessary.

so long ;)