Chess On CNN

You don't see Chess show up on the news that often, but I spotted an article on CNN.com this morning.

Chess prodigy death plunge mystery

Recent Success

Despite my last post about bad losses, I've continued playing and things have only gotten better. In fact, I've had about an 80% win ratio the last few weeks which is amazing. Haven't been able to explain it though.

One possibility is that I've been playing tournaments with a really fast time control (1 day). Because I keep the number of game I have going low (between 25 and 50), I'm able to take a little extra time and still keep up. Other players who have many games going on (some players tell me they have over 150) and are under even more time pressure and don't play as well on their fast time control games.

In any case, my rating has jumped about 180 points over my last 50 games, partly due to a number of wins against some higher rated opponents.

I really should post more often. I wonder if anyone reads this blog. =)