Happy New Year :-)

Got the trench done finally. So all set with that! I guess i did some conversions wrong on the metrics units or something. so the correct depth was actually 13.36 UberLiters.

and i spent a ton of time thinking about the way to learn. and i believe its like playing golf or most other sports. except maybe that rugby game. not sure how that works with guys grabbing you and all. but say... golf. ( golf ) in golf you have to just hit the ball. like in chess you have to just move the pieces. monkey easy. but in golf you have to hit the short shots, long ones, putts... chips, lobs, punches, sand, some shallow water...

and in chess you have all sorts of things going on too. as some of you may know. so. to get better at golf you need to practice all of the shots. but you also need shot management - when to hit it less than the max because you want to set up the next shot.

now to my thinking.

i believe i am on the correct track with my Create Really Awesome Problems scheme. CRAP for short... now with CRAP i believe i will become much better. but, chess is not all CRAP, its learning how to set up CRAP. like setting up a nice 100 yard (347.234 uber liter) shot rather than trying to bomb the drive the whole way to the green and ending up chipping out of the woods.

so. here it is:

1 continue the tactics until i get em down a bit.

2 at the same time (now) also learn how to get to the point where i am setting up the problem. back up the position a few moves. see how i could make that problem happen in a game. after all by setting up the problem i am already going to know the solution to it. hopefully my opponent does not!

that's it. learn to move into a problem and ta-da! 2000 in a few years.