I started training again! Because I have high expectations for the next Hivechess I decided to dedicate part of my time here updating some of the tournaments I participate in. For now I'm not in the live tournaments but in the ones held at Lichess, to practice a bit in different modalities.
I want to start with blitz, since it is the format that is most played in Friday tournaments, it is the standard time for many of the tournaments I want to participate in later on, then I will take care of the rapid formats and much later on the classical time.
I've noticed that I'm falling behind in the opening in many of the games, so I'm going to do something I haven't done since I was a beginner in chess, grab a book and start reading again about openings like the Karo-Cahn that I've been playing in some games recently and it's a game system that I don't fully understand.
D4 systems
There are also some D4 systems like the London that has been around for years and I have somehow developed some improvised system to stop it, but I want to go deeper into the good moves in those positions so it's time to study, I usually play Grunfeld every time I get played something like that but I feel somewhat limited with that.
Then we get into the middlegame, the plans that come after the first moves, here the blitz can get us into trouble if we don't know how to understand very well what position we are in so I was looking again to do exercises in lichess, also in chess.com it should work although I don't like the interface there too much, once a teacher told me that just by solving exercises you could already increase your level in a good way.
After that I might review endgames at some point, I've always wanted to understand the mechanics of how to make a checkmate with a bishop and knight or with two bishops, it's something that has always eluded me and I haven't fully understood, that for later because I think I've put too many pending tasks right now