The Plan
Needless to say, an ambitious goal needs a proper plan to have any chance of success. There is no getting around the fact I will need to work on all aspects of my game to get there, and need to have some measure of control to ensure I stay on track. With today's immensely rich resources on all manner of platforms, there is no shortage of tools to work on one's game, and I plan to make use of a wide variety of them. My technical background, not just with ChessBase, but with software in general (I was a designer of Chess Assistant 6 and 7 back in the day), does mean I have a certain tendency to choose modern tools, and find ways to integrate them. These may change over time of course, but as of now, here is how I plan to proceed. I have broken down the areas I need to work on quite simply as: openings, tactics, positional play, endgame, visualization, practical play (i.e. playing games). Furthermore, I will have two tools to keep track a...