From the moment last year's Norwegian Chess Championship 2009 ended, I had already decided to enter this year's Championship. I had planned a lot of chess activities, including chess tutoring, books and dvd's, especially those emphasizing the endgame. And even though there still isn't any time to play chess at a chess club, I would be there when they had lectures and maybe take contact with some of the players for private play. To make a long story short, nothing much happened.
I did continue to play at the website "Letsplaychess". Alltogether I have played 609 games, but only 137 this time, compared to 472 for last year's preperations. I have during this time played in stronger internet tournaments, where the opposition is more or less my own strength. That doesn't really show on the rating info, which has come up from 1704 to 1728. We are still talking about "Letsplaychess"'s rating system for their database systems. Nothing official yet.
And playing 137 games doesn't neccessarily improve your chess capabilities much. At least not at my age. For that I need to bury myself into some books and DVD's. So I am a little embarrassed to say that I will have to see what happens.
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