Tactics Training Day 3 | Quality Over Quantity
Resolution for August 8, 2021: plan better.
I'm sort of going with the flow now. That shouldn't be too bad, though. Picking up all sorts of things here and there.
Today I'm going be using IM Levy Rozman's advice. Quality over quantity. Meaning: instead of doing a billion puzzles in a few seconds to make yourself feel like you accomplished something, do less, and do them slower to get as many as you can right. That's what I've been trying to do, but I did too many so it was impossible.
To fix that, today I'll only be doing two Survival Puzzle Rushs and 20 rated puzzles. Hopefully it'll help me go slower and think about the puzzles more.
By the way, thanks to Copernicus9 for recommending Levy's video for me! It had some great tips on how to improve for different levels. If you're also stuck at a certain rating, watch the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK6rAfukA44
You can also use chess.com's study plan, two of which I'll be studying in the future as part of my plan to improve. This is the directory where you can find plans for all skill levels.
https://www.chess.com/article/view/study-plan-directory
I realized that after a while this is going to get boring to read. Like, there's nothing for the reader to do other than reading about my progress and looks at recorded numbers. So starting today, I'm going to insert some of the puzzles that I do that seemed the most interesting to me.
Unfortunately I'm not feeling that great today, had a little headache and was tired so we'll see if that lowers my scores. First, the puzzle rush.
ATTEMPT 1: 37
Not that great.
ATTEMPT 2: 36
Okay, at least my scores are consistently above 35 when I don't go so fast and fail the fifth puzzle.
Today's average is 36.5.
Now on to the rated puzzles.
PUZZLES ATTEMPTED: 20
PUZZLED FAILED: 8
PUZZLES SOLVED: 12
PASS RATE: 60%
STARTING PUZZLES RATING: 2564
END PUZZLES RATING: 2621
RATING +/- TODAY: +57
My pass rate is better than yesterday's, which was 50%. That shows that going slower helps. Also, my puzzles rating is going up and not down, which is a good thing.
Now, as promised, here are some of the puzzles I did and that you can do too. Some of these are fairly difficult because their ratings are quite high.
I got this one.
This is an interesting one too.
