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Goals for the new season! - Andrew McHarg - 19-07-2012
What are your goals... ?
Mine is to break the 1800 grading barrier. This is the first new season where my grade has gone down (albeit only by about 2elo). I think the reason is that I've not played as much. ;|
Re: Goals for the new season! - David Deary - 19-07-2012
Same for me really.
I'll try to break the 1800 barrier but if I play anything like I did last season at weekenders I'll be struggling to do it.
Ideally, I need to find a couple of hours each day to do some "study". I keep telling myself I will pick up the books but then I get distracted by my pc, my xbox 360 or work. Oooh the joys of being an occassional player.
Re: Goals for the new season! - Andy Howie - 19-07-2012
Mine is to get the IA title. 4 norms needed.
Re: Goals for the new season! - robin moore - 20-07-2012
1/ Get David Deary/ Pat/ McGovern/ David Gillespie senior to buy me a pint.
2/ Try and get some of the juniors I am coaching at Dunlop primary school in Ayrshire onto to the CFK or Hamilton junior events. It's brilliant fun and a great challenge. Why don't you get yourself on the coaching list and offer your services to the local primary school ? You will be starting from scratch but the personal satisfaction is incredible.
Re: Goals for the new season! - Mike Mitchell - 20-07-2012
In no particular order:
1. Break the 1600 rating barrier
2. Play in a couple of Challengers events
3. Work on middlegame planning (main cause of my losses in second half of last season)
4. Break 50% for any league teams I play in
Re: Goals for the new season! - Hugh Brechin - 20-07-2012
For me:
Breaking 2100 would be very nice, but given that I haven't done a lot of work on my game recently 2050 is probably a more realistic target. I've given myself a big advantage this year by not playing in the Scottish, an event in which I lost about 80 points last time around.
Continue my recent ability to get decent results (finally!) with Black.
Play some kind of part in keeping Edinburgh 2 in the local Premier Division, and ideally contribute to successful Richardson and SNCL campaigns.
Re: Goals for the new season! - Graham Kerr - 21-07-2012
I'm fairly sure you can break the 1800 barrier Andrew, given enough games. The opportunity of playing in division 1 this season will help your game too, whether or not that reflects in your next grade, it'll certainly show over a longer term.
I think my goal for this season will be to stay above 1500, i've been dogged by concentration problems for a couple of years now, got away with it for much of 2010-11, but not so much 11-12. My focus needs more focus...
Re: Goals for the new season! - Patrick McGovern - 21-07-2012
[quote]"Get David Deary/ Pat/ McGovern/ David Gillespie senior to buy me a pint."
to quote the famous Kilmarnock sage, "Pot, Kettle and Black".
Robin is clearly affected by Alzheimers
However he will have a chance to redeem himself during the upcoming Marymass tourney in August!! :U
Re: Goals for the new season! - StevieHilton - 21-07-2012
1/ to conquer the short time controls of the leagues!!
2/ to get my Scottish rating to match my FIDE one!!
Re: Goals for the new season! - Angus McDonald - 21-07-2012
To ensure that either parliament UK or Scottish fund the participation of our next crop of 20 junior Internationalists at the next Glorney/Faber/Robinson and Stokes events.
Currently we spend money on the past and destruction. Time to demand that our country Britain/Scotland invest in it's talented youth.
Recent e-mail states that £1.35 million was paid to a private family for buying some papers to do with William Wallace to display in the Scottish Museum. How about investing in living breathing talent?
Angus Wallace McDonald