NOTICE: Newsletter & bulletin board to include daily project summary reports

To bring transparency to the blog, I am going to begin posting daily summary reports of the current projects in the works here within the blog. These summary reports will appear here, on the bulletin board below the header, and every newsletter will also carry the latest report.
Lastly, the edition of the summary report in the newsletter will be accompanied with a written report addressing the upcoming plans for the blog.

Monday, February 23, 2009

Aeroflot Open 2009 Coverage

As some of you may know, the Aeroflot Open chess tournament for 2009 is under way, and I am going to starting a new project. I am going to select a few games from the tournament that have attributes I am focusing on. I will dig through the available PGN files and find games that fit a specific criteria.
To start this project off, I want to know what analysis you, the reader, would like to see. I am going to post a poll with a variety of different traits that a game could have, such as 'Black overcomes White in center control in the opening'. I will choose the qualification that the readers would most like to see, and analyze as any games from the tournament that fit this qualification. Then I will post the analysis on the blog.
So go check out the poll at the top of the page, and tell me what you would most like to see in a game I analyze.

On a separate note, I am suspending the current main project for a few reasons. I am currently working on building a readership, and until I have a big enough sample of participants to poll, the results are not very conclusive. Also, I believe that turning my focus to posting analysis, puzzles, and resources will draw in more readers.
The current project has lead to a Ruy Lopez open, and I am going to take some time to figure out a way to take this project. I am considering renovating it, and turning it into an exploration of the Ruy Lopez opening.

Finally, I have recently stumbled upon a piece of work I created about a month ago. This work is a walk through of the Benoni Opening. By the end of the week, I will post a download of this word document on the blog. This will also become part of the Exeterstreet Data Package that I am compiling and hoping to offer on the blog as soon as I have a considerable amount to offer. This package will be offered at no cost to any visitor of the blog. Each version of the package I release will have a bonus add-on, available exclusively to members of the mailing list.

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