i’m like a pig looking at a wristwatch
first off, i am tired of the holidays. and that’s probably only cause i now work in retail, and i seem to be working lots of hours for a “part time” job. and i’m working all those hours cause it’s the holidays, which completes the vicious circle of hell i’m currently in.
i dig my job, but i find myself with no time to do what i want, namely study the damn chess game. there is also the fact that i am easily distracted and fascinated by shiny things, so when i sit down to study chess, my attention gets pulled away. i need one of those rooms that reassembler talked about HERE.
i had planned on sitting in my room all day, going over chess games and learning and such, but it seems i am at work, going to or coming home from work, or taking care of other things. as soon as the holidays are over, i will be working less, and things should be ok.
a few posts ago, soapstone made a comment about chess programs. i have fritz (thanks wang) and chessbase light, but i don’t know how to use them to their full potential. i’m like an old guy with a mazzerati who only drives it, 35 miles an hour, from his home to the market 2 miles away and back. i don’t know how to use them.
i want to “take a position from a game” and “put it in fritz” and then fritz tell me what is the best move. i also want to take one of my games, and when, on move 3, the guy goes e6 instead of Nc6 like he is “supposed to do” i want the program to tell me what line he is playing and show me a list of games with that move in it. i don’t’ know how to do this.
not that it matters right now, i don’t seem to have the time to do this if i did know how, but i want to know how and i want to sit down and study uninterrupted. i don’t’ want to have to open the door for my cat to go out, then come back in, then answer the door, then have to do other crap. i want to sit down, look at chess, and have the chess knowledge imprint itself, tattoo itself in my brain.
so right now, instead of writing about it, i’m going to study some chess.
as soon as i finish commenting on other blogs. and as soon as i get back from the gym. and finish looking at porn. and get ready for work.
blunderprone said,
December 10, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Wow… I hear you… got that life stuff taking me away from my game too ( see my last post)
As for the Mazerati old man.
Position setup:
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I use paste FEN when I go from SW to SW … since i use Bookup for the opening database, I can eiher port the game to PGN import as a game to Fritz and get to move X where i want to analyze or I can directly copy the just the position and use the Fritz FEN paste.
since you have CB lite, once the position is fritz’d etc… pop into the data base and expose that position. I thijnk you should be able to just “search chess base” for it and a pane pops up with a list of games. I haven’t found a quick way to DL the games without individually doing a control-S for each one I want.
Hopping on to any online chess data base usually allows you to search for positions. these can allow you to select the games you want to export to PGN or CBH format.
Hope this helps.
Yeah … a chess pod would be nice.
Good luck at the Gym. May your porn be quick ( to allow for more time on chess)
blunderprone said,
December 10, 2007 at 12:47 pm
those arrows didn’t show (file) to (new) to (position setup)
Pawn Shaman said,
December 10, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Have you tried incorporating your cat into the game. I call it “The Hobbes Gambit” when your analyzing a game otb and the cat jumps up, walks into the middle of the board, paws a bishop over and then lays down purring. Its a snuggly variation to real chess that needs to be taken advantage of.
chessloser said,
December 10, 2007 at 5:35 pm
blunderprone – i will try it out, thanks…
pawn shaman – while i haven’t tried to incorporate it, my cat has…has he been to your house?
Edwin said,
December 10, 2007 at 5:41 pm
In Fritz or CB Light, you just put up the position and click with your right mouse button while holding the mouse pointer on the board screen and a menu will appear in which you can choose to do a search for the position in it’s database. You should play around with the programs, try stuff out. See what the menu’s have to offer… I learned to use it like that. Though i’m probably still not using it to it’s full potential…
Blue Devil Knight said,
December 10, 2007 at 9:53 pm
My favorite parts of fritz:
1. Infinite analysis, showing the best moves in order. Go to Fritz–>infinite analysis, and click on the window in the right hand lower corner and click ‘add moves’ to show as many moves as you want.
2. Blundercheck. In analysis–>blundercheck. Have it save evaluation, and it will show a cool profile of the score as a function of move. Key to finding blunders if you want to do a quick analysis of blitz games (otherwise if you don’t analyze blitz your chess brain atrophies, or so I theorize, given all the people at ICC with 10000 blitz games and a rating of 900).
I like the database ChessDB for looking up lines, how to respond to unusual lines.
Soapstone said,
December 10, 2007 at 10:54 pm
I put up a quick-and-dirty tutorial on how I use my ChessBase 8 and Fritz 8 engine on my blog. It’s not ChessBase Light, but perhaps it will still help.
chessloser said,
December 11, 2007 at 11:29 am
edwin – i try various things, problem is, when i find something i want, i forget how i got there….
Blue Devil Knight – problem with blundercheck is, every one of my moves is a blunder…
soapstone – between you and blunderprone, i think i might get it. thanks for your help, the screen captures are excellent…