Index · Vienna
Notebook pages
Every page in the notebook, oldest first, the way the rounds happened. A page is only started once a mistake has been made twice, which keeps the list short and the entries specific.
- Pages
- 5
- Reading
- 38 min in total
- Kept since
- 2021
- Last revised
- 4 Sept 2026
- 1The rook ending I lost three times before I bothered to learn itA pawn up, rooks on, twelve minutes left: the same ending three times in two seasons. What the defence actually is, and how I drill it now.Rook endings7 min9 April 2024revised 28 May 2024
- 2Cutting the repertoire down to what I can hold on a WednesdayFour systems as White and a folder of lines I never opened made me slower, not stronger. What survived the cut, and the criteria I used.Repertoire8 min12 November 2024revised 20 Jan 2025
- 3Post-mortem of a fourth-round loss: three decisions, one badA quiet loss to a stronger player in a weekend open, gone through four times. The move I regret is not the one I regretted that night.Post-mortem6 min6 May 2025revised 17 Jun 2025
- 4Counting squares: the pawn endings I can now solve on the tramKing and pawn endings, worked through on a pocket set on the way home: the square, where it misleads, and corresponding squares without the jargon.Pawn endings8 min27 January 2026revised 10 Mar 2026
- 5The last five minutes: giving away positions I had already wonTwo winters of scoresheets said most of my lost points came from positions I had outplayed. A time budget, and what to do when the flag is close.Clock and nerves9 min21 July 2026revised 4 Sept 2026
Nothing is deleted from this list. Where I have later decided a page was wrong, the wrong version stays and the correction is written underneath it, as described in the note on how pages are checked.