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Met cool people, had new experiences

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Firstly, let me congratulate myself and the awesome Multimedia Search team at Yahoo! for winning a team excellence award today. Though sad to leave Vertical Intent Search team, the new problems and challenges at the new team has been creatively engaging.

That brings me to the most awesome person at Y! among those I had never met before. Sydney Lewis was a revelation for me; great chess player, a wonderful leader, and a humble and responsible person. Learning chess from him is an honour. I would really spend a fortune to be coached by him, and by grace of God he has accepted me as a student!

Another guy I met whom I could learn something about RC helis from was Anirudh Sanjeev. But, alas, his internship ended. That brings me to Karthik who promised to mentor me on cubing. Exciting times ahead!

Chess improvement tips

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Today, at FICS, tjradd(SR) gave some golden tips towards taking your chess to the next level. Here they are:

  1. Do at least 10 tactics puzzles on chesstempo.com every day. When you get a problem wrong, go through it SLOWLY and figure out what you missed.
  2. Stop playing all forms of blitz
  3. Study GM games
  4. Establish an opening repertoire, understand the themes and main plans
  5. Study your own games carefully, and if possible with stronger players
  6. Study all “fundamental” end games.

All wonderful suggestions. I am going to work on them now. Here’s my current situation/progress against each point:

  1. This is something I need to start.
  2. I need to stop blitz immediately.
  3. Past month or two, been watching a lot of GM games. Helped a lot.
  4. Due to the T49 at Team League, I’ve studied a few more openings now. Need to work more.
  5. Thanks to spendius and sirpicha on FICS, I’ve studied my games on a regular basis.
  6. Thanks to tjradd again, I’ll now get started with his endgame primer.

Do you have any other tips?