Progress Report 2

It's been a week of horrible results playing unrated blitz games, which I don't mind too much as I've been really trying to force tactical complications in positions where I know they're not justified (+1-9=0 at one point!).

I have played some rated 5 12 games recently, and my blitz rating has gone from 1442(E) to 1579(E) which might sound like progress, but in reality I got 60 points from adjudicating some old (some 5 years old!) adjourned games, and benefitted from my high RD beating ~1300 players for about 15-20 points a game. You'd call it eeking if you didn't know better. My blitz RD is still about 88, so that rating is a bit meaningless until I've played some more games.

Here's an example of the sort of fun I've been having when I do manage to pull it off.

SimianChatter vs RandomFICSer (1415 blitz)

White to move

11. Ne6 clearance of the h5-e8 diagonal, and the f-file for the follow-up sacrifice. 11. ... fxe6 12. fxe6 Bc8 Crafty says 12. ... Rf8 =, but that's no fun! 13. Rxf6 annihilation of defense. Now 13. ... Qxf6 should hold, but after my opponent played 13. ... Bxf6 14. Qh5+ resigns as 15. Qf7 will be mate.