LOTR Chess Collection

One day I'll be able to actually have this on show, due to little fingers

Mini Coopers

Ninco Lexus

Subbuteo Team Collection

Germany vs Argentina

A couple of F1 cars in my collection

Rally - Leob

WRC Leob in a Citroen C4 - No1

Record and Publish your Chess Games

A great tool to publish your PGN notes and embed your games on your blogs etc.

http://chesstuff.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/html-code-generator-for-blogs.html

Awesome Victrix 54mm Figures

A new set to compliment the 54mm British.

Improving TACTICS

Training our tactical vision

 

The following set of tips may help train tactical vision:-

• Kotov in [1] suggested getting really complicated positions from games, and then doing a thorough analysis of those positions, and then comparing your analysis to that of the annotatators.
• It is generally acknowledged that solving chess puzzles from books/ magazines, [and chess web sites] helps develop our visualisation. Looking through games in one's head without using a chess set is also another method which may help improve our ability to visualise positions in advance.
• Serious tournament practice will force us to visualise moves ahead.
• Playing openings with are highly tactical in nature such as the open sicillian defence is also a good idea for practicing combinations and tactical ability in general.
• Having one's games analysed by a strong computer program, and then seeing the tactical resources the program has seen may reveal to us many possibilities that we completely missed.

Improving Chess Links

Some links that provide ideas for you to follow and work at to get better at Chess.

8 shortcuts to improving your chess
http://blog.chess.com/SonofPearl/8-shortcuts-to-chess-improvement

How to get better
http://www.thechessworld.com/learn-chess/17-chess-how-tos/19-how-to-get-better-at-chess-guide-for-all-levels

More advice
http://www.jlevitt.dircon.co.uk/adv.htm

Amazing Chess Set

This is an absolutely amazing chess set

It will cost you about £1000 from here > http://www.chessmazeinternational.com/catalogue/limited-edition-sets/

I'll be putting it on my Christmas list :o))

Slot Car Rallying

A couple of my rally cars

Manchester City

Subbuteo 744

New Subbuteo Astro Pitch

Fantastic Pitch, players slide along nicely. I have secured this to a MDF base with surround walls.
New Teams have arrived from the Subbuteo Premiership Range;

63783 Blackburn Rovers
           Everton
63135 Liverpool 2nd
63753 Tottenham Hotspur 2nd
63151 Newcastle Utd 2nd

Pictures to follow.....

Slot Car Pictures (1/32)

Camera

No update pictures as my camera has broken, need to save up and get a new one.