Teamleague 37?

There's a rumour circulating that teamleague 37 might be starting at the end of September... fingers crossed.

I had a couple of training games against team mates this weekend. I managed to win, but I'm not terribly impressed with my play - totally superficial. In the second game I was getting nowhere and starting to go backwards so I played a psuedo-combination just because the idea had been staring at me for a couple of moves. It should have resulted in an unbalanced but even position with two rooks vs rook and two minors with pawns dangling all over the place... fortunately for me my opponent found a way to go wrong.

Then there were the rated blitz games... oh dear... I did swindle a draw against a 1200...

So some things need to change. No more random wood-pushing to wile away the hours, no more "setting my hair on fire". That experiment is complete. Every game now must be taken seriously, I can play poker or toss dice if I want to see a suprise random outcome.

I need to play some serious 45' 45" games with 1800+ opponents to see if any real improvement is happening. This was to be '100 Days to Chess Improvement'. We're about 70% of the way through that... the clock is ticking...