Richard Vanek - Black and White Photography

Not very much about the company competition on these pages, right? Well you know it happens once a month :-) No no! No excuse. Next week it is a last match, round 9 I guess. This monday we were playing in Breda against strong team. After some reorganization in Ericsson the number of people willing to play chess decrease dramaticaly so we are even not able to find five people to play. So we played in four and started with a score 1-0.

Suprise, suprise we were able to finish with score 3-2 so it means we lost one, win one and made two draws. One draw was done by me. Check details in game section. We very proud as we expected in best one draw which would mean result 4½-½.

Sometimes it happens, yes and you have pleasure from the things you are doing :-) I don't know if it because I have bought about month ago a CD-ROM from Convekta called CT-ART 3.0 or it is just natural evolution, but I am playing a bit better and have also more pleasure from it.

This CD is used for training of chess tactics and was recommended by quite a few people. I must say interface looks nice but to understand how it is working took me about week and I must say I have some 15 years experience with software developing. But once I have understand how it works I enjoy a program, not the interface which I still consider as quite terrible. I think more simple and useful would be more advantage as fancy graphics. "Less is more" rule will help here for sure.

Last few times I played after my holiday I felt much better and results were also better. Take a look at club and ericsson section for details. I am againmore offen playing at freechess.org, if you have a mood richo is my handle there.