I’ve had a busy finish to term, and so have only done around 5 hours of chess over the last two weeks.  In the first week I lost a tough league game to Mark Reynolds (167), and as a result am not really expecting an increase in my Standard ECF grade this January (they now come out twice yearly).  I also played a bit of online chess, and in the second week I did a little opening work.  I’ve not currently got any tournaments lined up over the Christmas period, and instead am going to focus on analysing and re-analysing some of my recent games.