Chess Camp Day 3
Today I have started to get a little bit bored of chess camp. Day by day, it is always the same thing. Long lecture in the morning, then a tournament game. In the afternoon, review tournament games.
The most boring part is probably the lecture. Even though there is a lot of information, it is presented in boring and convoluted ways, so I can't really tell what the main line is because the GM shows bunches of variations. I still learn quite a bit, though, just by seeing all the different tactics that are possible. Each day we go over another opening into about the twentieth move, and as you can tell, there are a LOT of possibilities.
The tournament game review is kind of boring. Just like the openings, we go through a lot of variations, and we go through the whole game. Each game takes around 45 minutes. Of course, we go through all of the mistakes the players made, and how to correct them. I think this is true for everyone: game review time is boring. Everybody is just staring at the TV, not really focusing, asking weird questions. Each person only perks up when they get to his/her game. Sometimes, though, like in my game, he just stops after a certain move because it was so obviously losing for me that there was no chance for me to win.
I think the highlight of the day every day in chess camp is either the tournament game, lunch, or my game review.
The most boring part is probably the lecture. Even though there is a lot of information, it is presented in boring and convoluted ways, so I can't really tell what the main line is because the GM shows bunches of variations. I still learn quite a bit, though, just by seeing all the different tactics that are possible. Each day we go over another opening into about the twentieth move, and as you can tell, there are a LOT of possibilities.
The tournament game review is kind of boring. Just like the openings, we go through a lot of variations, and we go through the whole game. Each game takes around 45 minutes. Of course, we go through all of the mistakes the players made, and how to correct them. I think this is true for everyone: game review time is boring. Everybody is just staring at the TV, not really focusing, asking weird questions. Each person only perks up when they get to his/her game. Sometimes, though, like in my game, he just stops after a certain move because it was so obviously losing for me that there was no chance for me to win.
I think the highlight of the day every day in chess camp is either the tournament game, lunch, or my game review.
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