My Daily Basis Work
![Picture](/uploads/4/3/4/7/4347754/719655.jpg?304)
It all started when I was just a youngster, back in 1996. We moved from my hometown Petrila, to a bigger town near by, Petrosani, where chess activity was much higher. From the beginning I was fascinated by tactics and beautiful combinations, so I started to carefully copy them in my thick notebook, which is still "alive" today, after 20 years of hard work. I remember that my first book of tactics was the famous Polgar's 1994 book, 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games.
Since then, I became a slave of this fascinating world with crazy sacrifices and sleepless night endgame studies. My hunger for hunting them down never let me sleep well, even today when I have a pretty cozy bed.
But today, in the age of computer and internet, everything has become much easier for me, namely, to transfer a diagram from paper into chessbase. This is how I spend most of my time, converting pdf books into chessbase pgn format, for better use in various chess tactics software. I carefully follow these steps :
1. I search on the internet for a new tactics book and download it, usually pdf or djvu format, scanned by other chess enthusiast and shared.
2. I start creating all the diagrams from book into chessbase positions, piece by piece, the hard work.
3. After this, I insert the solutions of every diagram, and corect it with an engine if necessary, takes me a lot of time.
4. I scan again the whole project to verify for errors, and sort the diagrams accordingly to author's criteria, or mine.
5. Finally, I sleep a day or two to recover the energy lost in the process. After that, I share the book newly converted to others.
Since then, I became a slave of this fascinating world with crazy sacrifices and sleepless night endgame studies. My hunger for hunting them down never let me sleep well, even today when I have a pretty cozy bed.
But today, in the age of computer and internet, everything has become much easier for me, namely, to transfer a diagram from paper into chessbase. This is how I spend most of my time, converting pdf books into chessbase pgn format, for better use in various chess tactics software. I carefully follow these steps :
1. I search on the internet for a new tactics book and download it, usually pdf or djvu format, scanned by other chess enthusiast and shared.
2. I start creating all the diagrams from book into chessbase positions, piece by piece, the hard work.
3. After this, I insert the solutions of every diagram, and corect it with an engine if necessary, takes me a lot of time.
4. I scan again the whole project to verify for errors, and sort the diagrams accordingly to author's criteria, or mine.
5. Finally, I sleep a day or two to recover the energy lost in the process. After that, I share the book newly converted to others.
Converting ... 2020 |
Finished ... |
2021
A - 4 Books
B - 6 Books
C - 2 Books
D - 3 Books
E
![Picture](/uploads/4/3/4/7/4347754/9642525.jpg?250)
Diagrams + Solutions
Start : 6 february 2015
Finish : 6 february 2015
Work : 1 day
F
![Picture](/uploads/4/3/4/7/4347754/1902922.jpg?250)
Zenon Franco , 2010
290 pages, 1001 puzzles
Diagrams
Start : 20 july 2015
Finish : 23 july 2015
Work : 3 days
Solutions
Start : 24 july 2015
Finish : 26 july 2015
Work : 3 days
290 pages, 1001 puzzles
Diagrams
Start : 20 july 2015
Finish : 23 july 2015
Work : 3 days
Solutions
Start : 24 july 2015
Finish : 26 july 2015
Work : 3 days
G
![Picture](/uploads/4/3/4/7/4347754/8051772.jpg?250)
A.J. Gillam , 1993
96 pages, 372 puzzles
Diagrams
Start : 4 march 2015
Finish : 4 march 2015
Work : 1 day
Solutions
Start : 5 march 2015
Finish : 5 march 2015
Work : 1 day
96 pages, 372 puzzles
Diagrams
Start : 4 march 2015
Finish : 4 march 2015
Work : 1 day
Solutions
Start : 5 march 2015
Finish : 5 march 2015
Work : 1 day
H - 6 Books
I
![Picture](/uploads/4/3/4/7/4347754/2403122.jpg?250)
2005 in tactics
1575 puzzles
Solutions
Start : 13 january 2015
Finish : 17 january 2015
Work : 5 days
1575 puzzles
Solutions
Start : 13 january 2015
Finish : 17 january 2015
Work : 5 days
K - 5 Books
L - 2 Books
M
![Picture](/uploads/4/3/4/7/4347754/understanding-rook-endgames-big.jpg?250)
Karsten Muller , 2016
288 pages,
Diagrams
Start : 23 september 2016
Finish : 24 september 2016
Work : 2 days
Solutions
Start :
Finish :
Work : ?? days
288 pages,
Diagrams
Start : 23 september 2016
Finish : 24 september 2016
Work : 2 days
Solutions
Start :
Finish :
Work : ?? days