1800 on Tactical Trainer

My next goal is 1900

1633 on Strategy Trainer

I am now getting hang of it. Now it makes sense why the exercises are so long. I really needed this coming out from pure tactics training.  Made a tiny little progress on Strategy today. Just few points up learning from the games of the famous.

1600 on Strategy Trainer

After one hour of suffering I was able to get to 1600 on Strategy Trainer. Since I am using automatic training mode the trainer takes me into all kinds of aspects of chess. It made me seriously go in depth on Reti opening as well as teach me how to protect the passed pawn. I didn't even expect this type of training. Anyways, good progress today, will leave Strategy trainer alone until later on.

1500 on strategy trainer

Made a tiny little progress today going from 1400 to 1500 on strategy trainer.

Strategy training on chess.com

In addition to working on tactics I have decided to start strategy training on chess.com.
There is an awesome tool called Chess Mentor. I tried it last night and it rated me at 1404. Oh well, a good start I guess. The goal is 1900 on strategy and tactics.

SDCC - Anthony Harborne Precision Shootout - Round 4

Played one of our regular meetup guys - Ross Blum

Tactics Trainer - 1700 after 9984 puzzles!

SDCC - Anthony Harborne Precision Shootout - Round 3

2011 South California Open - Round 6

Lost

2011 South California Open - Round 5

Played one of the Peterson boys. He is from the family with 7 chess playing siblings. Lost.

2011 South California Open - Round 4

Played with 7-year old chess genius Ajay Krishnan. Lost.

2011 South California Open - Round 3

Lost miserably and fast in Round 3 to a guy from Louisiana.

2011 South California Open - Round 2

Once again, I was the last one to leave U1600/U1400 room

2011 South California Open - Round 1

Happened to be paired up with one of our SDCC / chess meetup people - John Huey. I was the last one to leave out of U1600/U1400 room