Okay, day one of February, 8.3 percent done with 2012. Time to update my resolution progress.
1) Cartooning. Haven’t done as much as I’d like here. I have thought up about a dozen ideas for gag cartoons, and scribbled a couple drafts, but none are complete yet. I need to get busy with this!
2. Chess study. I’ve actually done pretty well with this one. I’ve studied at least an hour for six out of seven nights- all month. And many nights were two-plus hours. I finished Seirawan’s book Winning Chess Tactics. There were just over a hundred exercises through the text, with several test exercises in the final chapters. I’m going to re-read chapters 1-15 before trying the test. I hope to have the testing done by the end of February. Next up will be the first 450 problems in Polgar’s monster book of 5,000+ problems. Continue reading »