New Record in Puzzle Rush
Hi everybody!
I know for the most of you this is a very small number, yet I reached 32 in Puzzle Rush Survival. The puzzles I failed were not impossible at all, I also did one or two correct moves in each of them. In the post picture you can see them, and understand a bit what I cannot see. I am pretty happy because I got right some pawn breaks among other stuff.
As some viewers of my twitch channel say, I am addicted to puzzles, yet I think training tactics is vital to improve the game. Maybe plain puzzle rush is not the best way to improve tactics, yet I think it is great to see more and more patterns. It won't do miracles for calculation, but I am still considering myself a beginner and I am trying to get all possible hanging fruits!
Do you have something that made you see more and more patterns? A specific book, program, analysing your games...?
Many people suggest CT ART, I admit lichess puzzles have their flair as well yet pattern recognition there is kind of difficult.
About other random thoughts...
I am constantly going up with rating, but I still cannot beat people with more than 1200 ELO. I am at 1056 now for rapid (used for classical) but usually play against stronger players, to learn to play above my level. I still do more mistakes than I should, and in difficult situations I seldom do that one move that would save me.
I have still been checking pins, some good videos from some of my favourite coaches in Youtube.
@RobRam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAcFa_OypEU
@danheisman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4Apq9uhefw
@nelsi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nma7Cx1IoG8
I have been checking some of the beginner videos from @chessnetwork, I really think I will soon devote a whole post to it. This is the good thing of checking quite some videos on a tactic, we can get to check a course we would have not checked out thoroughly otherwise. Knowing what a pin is does not mean that we always see all of them, at least for me these are two very different matters.
I would like to start a small group of people supporting each other with blogs. Since it is difficult to get visibility otherwise on this platform, bloggers helping each other could go further than on their own. Is there anybody that would be willing to commit to read blogs and comment them whenever they are worth it, even if it is to make a question or a comment on what it could be done better? @sunny29990 , you are the first one in the group, we will see if it is worth making a club or to get grouped in any other way!
This is also a topic that would be worth a post, yet... you know, I use the most of memory to learn chess, I still do not have a notebook where I only note down what my next post should be, so I rather write about a main topic and use this space as a diary.
