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375 x 2
335 x 4 x 2
30 Burpees, 80 seconds
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For reasons I can't divine, I like chess again after a many year hiatus. I have and continue to work weekends, so I might not play an actual tournament game for some time yet, but I enjoy studying again.
I found chess study worked well with my terminal insomnia. I'd get up anytime between 2:30 and 3:30 am most days, and after making sure I couldn't sleep anymore, I'd down a pot of coffee, get out Siegbert Tarrasch's "300 Chess Games," set up the board and pieces, and play over one, two, or three games.
I started back in August, and I figured I could go through three games a day and be done with the book just about the same time I would finish my CCNA preparation class, 12/8/2014.
My insomnia, thank God, has seemed to pass for the season, so it wasn't until 7 am this morning that with a wonderfully clear head and being about a month behind my schedule this position appeared on the board from game 285, Tarrasch - Walbrodt M6 1894.
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| Tarrasch-Walbrodt 1894,white to play |
This is the kind of position where a chess player smells blood, so I put the book aside and took a crack at it myself. I quickly and proudly found 1.Nc3 with a position that I thought must be raining death especially since ...dc is answered by 2. Bb5+ and a quick win for white.
I picked the book back up, and found that Tarrasch actually played 1.c3 with the annotation, "Here white ignores the elegant Nc3...dc, Bb5, which might even have lost the game."
Oh well.
I believe I learned a couple things here.
1) A study plan like most any plan will be violated. It's not a big deal. Keep moving forward.
2) After much effort, I can't always get the right answers. I can, however, independently get my own creative, bad answers, and I suspect in general that's a good thing, or at least a better thing than being incapable of any independent thought.
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