Endless Puzzles leads to No Improvement

Solving thousands or ten thousand puzzles alone will not make you a better chess player. What will improve your game is to improve your ability to RECALL the things you have studied and learned. If you want to break away from the same issues that plague most players, do the things they are not or unwilling to do because if you just keep repeating what everyone else is doing, then you get the same results.

I started a blog series to help anyone of any level to improve their game on just ten minutes a day. The latest blog just published has to do with Recall https://www.chess.com/blog/Innominata/strengthen-your-chess-brain-daily-training-to-boost-your-recall-and-long-term-memory

The blogs will be a series that will break down attributes and skills good and great players have and give you ways on how to train them properly to achieve your goal of improving your game. The blogs will target what most novice and intermediate players are lacking in their game, which should be the most beneficial things for most players to improve.If you find yourself struggling or are suffering from lack of progress, give these 10-minutes lessons a try.

*Advanced players can also benefit by improving these things covered in the blogs.

How has your method helped your own ratings?

You didn't start at 700 and are not 2000.

My record is public.

I just recently started seriously playing chess, and also started doing the puzzles. My rating went from 750 to 1150 in about 2 months. Puzzles do help tremendously, especially with tactics.

If chess is all about tactics everyone would be grandmasters. Tactics help to a degree but once you have a good handle on tactics, doing more tactic puzzles gives diminishing return.

Read the first word of the title.

What method do you use and how has it helped you with your rating? I think it's fair to ask the same thing of you.

What are you doing to help players that may be struggling and need help?

Of course everything helps to a degree.

Once you know what a fork is, how much can doing 10,000 puzzles help you learn to do a better fork? If you don't get it by the 100th or 200th fork puzzles then you have other issues to work on. And if all you focus on are tactics puzzles you are neglecting a vast aspect of the game.

When someone is one of the best in their perspective field, they make the best teachers.

Ask Usain Bolt how to run fast and you'll be on your way to a gold medal in the 100m.

Check the date on the games I played since you pointed out when I joined and my rating. Tell me, how many games have you played since my last game played?

I'm going to ask a favor.

Since you have three amazing GM friends, perhaps you can have them look over really quick what I have written down in my blog and ask them to give you their honest take on the subject. See if they say that it would hurt your development or if it would help. I'm just curious.

That's wonderful. It's always good to be able to pull out a win in a losing situation. There are many different attributes to nurture and improve to become a better player, the best version of you. One of them is PERSEVERANCE, which is one of the things I will be blogging about eventually when I get around to it. But it sounds like you already have a decent grasp on that already.

Good luck on your journey to your Next Level Chess.

Perhaps a screenshot of your conversation with the super GM. But it didn't take a minute for them to read. Just saying.

No offense but I don't care what you think I should or shouldn't do. Your opinion doesn't matter. It matters as much as your nonexistent GM friends.

You said you would rather take the words of 3 GMs over a non rated player but I'd rather take my own word over fictional characters.

Hahu

You're so dull. I sent it to them the moment you responded to me. But sure lol , fictional characters. Someone is mad