Dante's Discontents
Since I will be starting the Seven Circles (or some variant) in about a month, I went through the blogs today and found all of the criticisms/suggestions for improvement. Here is the result of my studies from all the Knights who have discussed it. I am going to read all of them closely over the next weeks as I plot my course to improvement. Maybe I should be called the listmaker knight...
Man de la Maza: origins of the famous Don's Inferno!
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Sancho Pawnza: great thoughts on maintaining a life while doing the Circles, and his training regimen, The 2-2-2 Plan (post 4 below):
[1] [2] [3][3] [4][5] [6] [7]
Pale Morning Dun: sums up some of the discussion and rationale for not doing all of the problems in CT-Art.
[1] [2]
Celtic Death: an ambitious modification of the traditional MDLM program, with lots of mini-circles followed by ubercircles.
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J'Adoube's dramatic withdrawal and re-entrance into the Knights, followed by his infamous revision of MDLM, the Circles of Death:
[1] [2] [3]
Pawn Sensei: posts that he is struggling with what to do. Not sure exactly what he is doing now.
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Nezha: decided to follow a book (not sure what book by Blokh), and has suggested that 500 problems may be better than 1000 for each circle:
[1][2]
Temposchlucker: I am not quite sure what he is up to: seems to have a 400 circle program over the next 32 years...:)
[1] [2]
Fussy Lizard: improving on the fly.
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King of the Spill: a rapid plan using various books in addition to the Tasc Chess Tutor.
[1] [2] [3] [4]
[Note added 5/9/05: my MDLM-inspired plan, The Divine Tragedy, which takes into account many of the above strategies, is here.]
Man de la Maza: origins of the famous Don's Inferno!
[1] [2]
Sancho Pawnza: great thoughts on maintaining a life while doing the Circles, and his training regimen, The 2-2-2 Plan (post 4 below):
[1] [2] [3][3] [4][5] [6] [7]
Pale Morning Dun: sums up some of the discussion and rationale for not doing all of the problems in CT-Art.
[1] [2]
Celtic Death: an ambitious modification of the traditional MDLM program, with lots of mini-circles followed by ubercircles.
[1]
J'Adoube's dramatic withdrawal and re-entrance into the Knights, followed by his infamous revision of MDLM, the Circles of Death:
[1] [2] [3]
Pawn Sensei: posts that he is struggling with what to do. Not sure exactly what he is doing now.
[1]
Nezha: decided to follow a book (not sure what book by Blokh), and has suggested that 500 problems may be better than 1000 for each circle:
[1][2]
Temposchlucker: I am not quite sure what he is up to: seems to have a 400 circle program over the next 32 years...:)
[1] [2]
Fussy Lizard: improving on the fly.
[1]
King of the Spill: a rapid plan using various books in addition to the Tasc Chess Tutor.
[1] [2] [3] [4]
[Note added 5/9/05: my MDLM-inspired plan, The Divine Tragedy, which takes into account many of the above strategies, is here.]
posted by Blue Devil Knight at 4/18/2005 02:55:00 PM
10 Comments:
Awesome! Heh, I just read over my old post. 30 minutes per game? What was I thinking? It takes about an hour. Thanks for that blast from the past BD.
PS
Hello,
The book was "Art of combination" By Maxim Blokh. You can buy it in amazon for about $128. I'm serious. Its good that I got mine from an second hand shop, or I would have settled for reinfield's book.
Hey, isn't that book what CT-Art was based off of?
PS
It seem so. Although I am not 100% sure. But its a curious coincidence that I bought this book by chance, and then reading the blogs of the knights, I went - "Hey wait a minute, I have the same chapters too"!
What about Santa's Helper Knight? You know, making a list and checking it twice?
PS
Great post! If I had to do it all over again, I think Don's Inferno is really the way to go. I don't think I cemented my level 20-40 problems the way I should have, and now I'm stuck in this rapid fire gauntlet of persistent failure. Not very pleased at the moment with my success and I'm having a hard figuring out if it's worth it to just plow through with high failure rates or should I drop back and modify.
I do the system of DLM: 400 points in 400 years.
Good post Devil. I'll check all this suggestions for sure when I start my circles. I should be doing this in about 20 days.
BDK,
I realize this is a very old post and list... but my method is described here:
http://blunderprone.blogspot.com/2006/03/concentric-maze-circles-de-la-modified.html
BP: thanks a lot. Indeed, this list deserves an update, and a place in my sidebar 'list of babies.'
Perhaps I'll solicit links soon and give this a thorough updating. J'adoube's site is different, so I need to fix that...ah the blog carpenter's work is never done.
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