It's because you've improved. Simple.
As for your cited tactic, many people fell for Kxf7. The difficulty is not determined by how obvious/how simple it is, but by the pass rate and the deceptiveness of the problem.
It's because you've improved. Simple.
As for your cited tactic, many people fell for Kxf7. The difficulty is not determined by how obvious/how simple it is, but by the pass rate and the deceptiveness of the problem.
Yes they are. 1800 Rated puzzles are problems that are more like free piece hanging after 2-3 moves, or normal checkmate attack , Complex position, chaotic but solution is not hard, Usually the path is pretty obvious.
Those around 2000 are not getting hard by increasing number of moves you have to see deep, but instead is a battle of ideas. You have usually 2 or 3 pretty obvious choices like the above example Kxf7 and Qxg2. You have to calculate those 2 lines and then compare then and see which is better etc. Some puzzles requiare sneaky quiet move first. Thats why they are sometimes only 1 move that look very simple to see and even low rated player will play it very quickly, but the problem assumes you already saw and calculated the other , you may call it trap line and you already know which is better. Usually thats not the case for many players who got the solution by luck and guessing and they assume this simple 1 move capture cant be a problem rated 2000+, but what they dont see is how rich was the problem/
Also many low rated player imidiately choose the wrong line Kxf7 and that makes the problem to raise rating quickly...
So aim, are you suggesting that people who passed that plateau done so by guessing the solution because it felt right and did not calculate enough to justify their answers?
Yes. I myself "solved" many puzzles just by pure intuition and guesing the moves one by one at 2000+ level, without looking at whole thing. Luckily many are only 1 move solutions. i reached above 2100 and even 2200. Puzzles rated 1750-1900 gave me hard time, and some still do, becouse they requiared calculation in order to win a piece in 4 move tactic combination or checkmate in 4 and i always get move order wrong etc. Ofcourse not all are like that. i was long at that range.
And now since they change it that you gain +1 point no matter how long you take to solve a puzzle, getting high rating at tactics is never been so easy.
Yes they are.
Idiots everywhere.
I see you have succeeded in other threats trolling. Not really in mood to smash all trolls and kids with stupid comments. Troll all you want. Thats mod job.
Mhmm... Ok Aim I see what you mean. I am sure most people solve chess tactics on chess.com like that as pass rates for most problems that I found hard were over the top.
However, I am sure many people including myself do not solve them like most do. People like me spend up to 20 minutes trying to solve a problem and see 'the whole picture' and all the variations as best we can and we have a high pass rate (Mine is highish at 80+) The problems I fail are problems I spend up to 20 minutes to solve or problems in which I overlook something. Though I admit, on occasion I guess a move because it seems to be the only make sense candidate that have a few nice lines.
I think your blitz and bullet habits are interfering with your tactical vision and you are moving on intuition. Judging by you blitz and bullet rating I can say you have excellent intuition but to improve classical play you really need to solve problems like you are playing classical chess and calculate. You should try watch some John Bartholomew videos on tactics. They are excellent.
You have not specified it but I guess you may be solving them the right way now. Well I don't know just incase you weren't but I heard you are focusing on long time controls recently.
Yes. But the problem is you can't spent so much time on real OTB game.
In tactic trainer you know it's a problem and you take time. Nobody is forcing you and now you even get +1 no matter how much time you use. 10-15 looking for all candidate moves and lines is fine and building strong visualization and deep calculation abillity. But that way you are not stressing yourself enough. OTB nobody will tell you, here, this is the position on which you have to spent 15 minutes. You can't be looking for tactics on each move that long or even half that time. You will be under stress condition with your clock ticking down. And there would be at least few possibilities in the game.
You have to build your intiution too. You have to trust your instinct and to smell where might be tactic and go for it, just like Tal. His combos were not that much sound and perfect.
Ofcourse my way is not completely right. I am the other extreme - movig too fast , bad bullet/blitz habbits. Somewhere in the middle is correct way - around 3-5 minute to max 10 on some problems where the theme is pure calculation for example you have to trap queen with 2 pieces etc. As is shows on every tactic average time usually is not more than 3-4 minute, most of the time below that. But add some few minutes extra to that for building skills and it will be all fine.
My only wish is to be able to get to 2000 in the first place. But because the tactics trainer is a broken unbalanced mess, it's very hard to do so.
I do feel as if the puzzles are getting easier overall, but I think that is because I am getting better.
If you get better that means puzzles that you are receiving will be higher rated and if you think they are easy then the answer is not becaouse you got stronger, but because puzzles are not strong as they should be at that level. You just said is broken unballanced mess. I got to unrated and solved a lot of 1300-1500 rated problems and must say that there are not few , extremely dificult and noone at that level would know solution
Once you reach above 2000 you will not stop there but go up more, but not becaouse you have improved, you have to go from time to time back again to 1800~ to prove you can solve ~90% of them(there are plenty of tactics at that level high variaty) Good luck and have fun. Sometimes i make a move that i wanted to play and looks funky unusual and its wrong, but then engine says is still fine and hold advantage. You best learn and improve while enjoying what you do.
Now there are three! Jesus Christ!
The TT is fine. It isn't "broken". It isn't "unbalanced". The problems don't become easier to solve after any barrier.
Please try to be less stupid.
Now there are three! Jesus Christ!
The TT is fine. It isn't "broken". It isn't "unbalanced". The problems don't become easier to solve after any barrier.
Please try to be less stupid.
Says someone who has never used the tactics trainer. 
LOL. Your intelligence continues to astound. Maybe at some point I'll link to your thread that lead you to blocking me just to make you look even more stupid...
Maybe, probably, perhaps... Over the internet nobody takes chances.
You are what you show. And everybody can see new account,
notes blocked, so you can troll freely without receiving the same. You have stupid avatar.
You posted crap on other threats.. Yep definetely a troll , a kid most likely.
See, now that angle is one that I will understand. Probably because it's utterly moronic. Why put down the guy who's more intelligent than you are? In this particular thread I haven't even bothered to argue a specific case admittedly, but it's only because you're so wrong that I couldn't even begin to consider that it would be worth my time to explain to such an idiot just how wrong he is in so many ways... Nobody that's said what you've said here is capable of understanding it, or worth explaining it to. Go to other threads though where I have made points. See how many times the guy calling me a kid and a troll were right in the thread.
What kind of a thought process do you have here? "Well if he was actually an intelligent adult like he tries to make out then he wouldn't bother with me because I'm so far beneath him, so therefore he must be a kid who's trolling. Yeah, that's it. The guy who is right is a kid who's trolling. That makes me fell better..." WTF?
I dont know why but +2000 tactics seems easier for me than what there were in 1800-1900 around! for example look at this tactic.it,s rating is 2087 but it should be an amateur puzzle!
https://www.chess.com/tactics/42571