I thinking stronger players may try to process quicker, in hopes of learning think more, and quicker as they already have a good handle on many tactics and calculating many possibilities for at least 3/4 moves. I guess it varies tho...
Difference between puzzle rating and live chess
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Apr 7, 2021
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#63
Puzzles are not equivalent to actual games, they are meant to teach you the fundamentals of chess. Like a tutor would. You have to look at your stats (press full stats below puzzle rating on the right of your home screen and look below the highest rating score) and there you will see your avarage rated puzzles, which can be very different from your overall puzzle rating.
Example my average rated puzzle is at 1600+. While my overall score is 1900+. What does that mean? That I am most succesful around the 1600's (although having beaten 2000's already). But that I have a way to go before I can truly say I "mastered" the 1900 positions.
But with every new level come new tactics. Dont focus too much on how high your rating is, just try to remember the situations and the tactics. And you will find yourself doing them faster and better and recognise them in real games and then being able to act on so-called intellectual instinct (lol, just imagine this as coding muscle memory for your brain).
If you still fail at Blitz play more rapid (like 15|10 or 30) till you get the hang of it and then speed up. If you get nervous cause of the human player factor then practice against the computer (dont worry a lot of us have the same issues, you can work on them and def get a lot better. Patience and perseverance and you will rise to your potential).
Julius_Spin wrote:
Puzzles are not equivalent to actual games, they are meant to teach you the fundamentals of chess. Like a tutor would. You have to look at your stats (press full stats below puzzle rating on the right of your home screen and look below the highest rating score) and there you will see your avarage rated puzzles, which can be very different from your overall puzzle rating.
Example my average rated puzzle is at 1600+. While my overall score is 1900+. What does that mean? That I am most succesful around the 1600's (although having beaten 2000's already). But that I have a way to go before I can truly say I "mastered" the 1900 positions.
But with every new level come new tactics. Dont focus too much on how high your rating is, just try to remember the situations and the tactics. And you will find yourself doing them faster and better and recognise them in real games and then being able to act on so-called intellectual instinct (lol, just imagine this as coding muscle memory for your brain).
If you still fail at Blitz play more rapid (like 15|10 or 30) till you get the hang of it and then speed up. If you get nervous cause of the human player factor then practice against the computer (dont worry a lot of us have the same issues, you can work on them and def get a lot better. Patience and perseverance and you will rise to your potential).
Damn that’s some research if I’ve ever seen some
Apr 7, 2021
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#65
PS: When masters play they take their time as well. No need to rush if you dont wanna. ; )
Apr 7, 2021
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#66
Haha, thanks. Pandemic had me teaching behind a laptop with nothing to do between breaks (lol). So got better at chess and playstation and read a lot of manga.
i feel like puzzles should correlate to classical which isn't on this site
Apr 7, 2021
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#68
True. You can however play 60 min or 45|45.
Which means about 75 minutes or so per game. Which is quite fair.
Classical has 90 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game, with an addition of 30 seconds per move starting from move one.
So still a big difference but you could play Daily.
PS: I do agree with you that it should be on the site.
tactics 2000, blitz 1450. about 600 points higher. I know someone who has 2700 puzzles and 1350 blitz
Apr 13, 2021
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#71
Hi I am back playing chess for the past 2 months for the first time in 27 years having played for about 3 years in my early teens. Enjoying it hugely having started around the 600 mark up to 800.Any advice from more experienced players what should I concentrate on to keep improving? Opening theory or more games or middle game etc regards to all the chess community
rapid: 600
puzzles: 1600
what
found this thread wondering the same thing
rapid: 1100
puzzles: just reached 2400
(both are still changing though)
Puzzle’s a lot higher than live chess
Apr 30, 2021
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#75
I came to the conclusion that it is because we take a LOT of time on puzzles, the more time you take, the closer you'll get to your puzzle rating. That and you have to be paranoid in games, because puzzles TELL YOU there is something wrong. So in the end, puzzles will ALWAYS be higher... Nakamura has a puzzle rating of 3000 something.
I started taking a lot less time and my rating plummeted from 2200 to 1950. Seems more healthy and takes a lot less time. More sustainable too, no more crazy ups and downs.
Apr 30, 2021
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#76
It's probably impossible to rate puzzles the same way as games. In games, every time someone gains points, someone else loses points. It's a zero sum game so there is a finite number of points in the pool. In puzzles, it's possible that everyone solves the puzzles so everyone's rating can keep going up. It's a solitaire game rather than a head-to-head game.
Knights_of_Doom wrote:
It's probably impossible to rate puzzles the same way as games. In games, every time someone gains points, someone else loses points. It's a zero sum game so there is a finite number of points in the pool. In puzzles, it's possible that everyone solves the puzzles so everyone's rating can keep going up. It's a solitaire game rather than a head-to-head game.
There are a lot of people who know more about this than I do, but I think puzzle ratings work in a similar way. If everyone got the puzzle right, it's rating would plummet. So the rating points gained would be very small.
1001bullet 1700 puzzles
700 rapid, 1600 puzzles
My newest approach in puzzles is proving before moving... If I can't prove it, I don't move it ( unless after 10 minutes I might follow a hunch, but then I often get it wrong.... or in any case my get hung up on the second or third moves... I'm around 1680 in puzzles.. I rarely get the full speed bonus but my puzzle rating has climbed. In a slump 10/15 rating usually 1000 excepting slumps