Progress on memorising 10,000 chess combinations

I am now up to 7200 combinations learned.

Wallasey - Atticus 1 27th March 2014

The following game was played against FM David Lawson (2227) on Board 1 of the Merseyside League for Wallasey against Atticus 1

I missed 41... cxb5 42 axb5 b6 which would have given good drawing chances.

Wallasey won the match 4.5-3.5 , an excellent result. Congratulations to my team mates for their excellent performance in that match.

UG Steve Carr 0 1 Dave Lawson 206

186 Phil Davies 0 1 John Redmond 198

163 Mike Coffey 0 1 Dave James 193

167 Greg Hughes 1 0 Nick Wall 162

165 Nick Martin 1 0 Brian Ewart 159

144 Jeff Povall 1 0 John Lambert 140

153 Eddie Taylor ½ ½ Nigel Hobro 132

157 Stuart Smiley 1 0 Sanjoy Banerjee 114

The game was recorded until I had 1 minute left and Dave Lawson had 2 minutes left.

Getting there slowly

Now up to 6500 combinations learned of my 10,600 to learn.

Almost 6000

So I have now done 6000 combinations using the Woodpecker method recommended by Axel Smith in his book 'Pump Up Your Rating'

Almost halfway

I am now up to 5200 of my 10,600 combinations to be memorised. So almost halfway.

4500 combinations

Still tracking my progress. Now up to 4500 combinations, learned to 90% accuracy.

Over 4000

I am now up to 4100 combinations of my 10,000 learned.