Getting better at Rush
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Jul 28, 2019
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#3
i would imagine that if you did loads of tactics both here as well as from classical books then your score will improve
Jul 28, 2019
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#4
I only got 30 in Puzzle Rush (for the first time) a few days ago. The key is to just focus on learning chess and especially pattern recognition with Puzzle Rush. It greatly helps your speed if you can identify what themes are at play, quickly in the puzzle. The moves come almost instinctively then 
Jul 28, 2019
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#5
The first few puzzles especially are usually Backrank mates, or hanging pieces. It helps to be on the lookout for things like that early on (since the puzzles get tougher in difficulty as you progress, so the themes will shift from things like mate in 2s, to pins, to exchange sacrifices and so on with tougher themes at play more often later in the Rush).
Jul 28, 2019
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#7
Given that your tactics rating is 1600 with a lot of attempts, you can probably score 25-27 as your best attempt. Get better at tactics to get good score in puzzle rush.
Jul 28, 2019
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#9
Today I had everything to make 23 or more, but I failed in the last 40 seconds and did again only 21!
Jul 29, 2019
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#11
EnergizeMrSpock wrote:
there are a few things to understand about puzzle rush : In positions 1-20, there are a lot of simple mates BUT most positions are about winning a piece. So, whenever you are presented with a position = immediately look at CHECKS and CAPTURES and what they lead to. From position 20 onward, the same still applies, BUT the correct move(s) is probably not the one that appeals at first sight, so = at this point SLOW DOWN SLIGHTLY and see if there are opponent pieces loose(material gain) or if king is weak(mate), which you should be doing always, anyway.
Broadly speaking, it is possible to get to 30+ by using pattern recognition only, and after that the positions become harder, serving you with situations where you have multiple queen checks to consider and maybe only 30 seconds left. Do not stress about this too much.
In order to improve : ALWAYS- review the 3 puzzles you got wrong many times. First, try to find the answer on your own taking at most 3 minutes. If you can't find it, have it show the answer. Then repeat the solution 7 times in a row. If you did find it, repeat it 6 times in a row. Go to next position you failed and repeat that process. They should now be "burnt in" to your bank of patterns.
REMEMBER : go slightly more slowly and seriously, from around number 18-20, this is where the difficulty ups for the first time.
Thanks! What is your best score in Rush?
Jul 29, 2019
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#12
EnergizeMrSpock wrote:
@ Manatini : CORRECT . For someone that has studied lots of tactics during many years, that person will have a larger bank of patterns and will get further in the rush, to let's say position 40, by instead of calculation simply seeing the correct moves immediately. Puzzle rush is TRAINING TACTICS AND PATTERNS, not STUDYING TACTICS. STUDY tactics by getting a nice tournament set with wooden pieces, and bye yourself a nice thick book on tactics with both teaching and training material, such as : " Improve your chess tactics " by Yakov Neishtadt. Let such a book be your daily bible for a year or two, then come back and smash your previous puzzle rush record. Simple but time consuming, though there's no way around that, improving at chess is a marathon, not a sprint.
With a physical board you will only be able to review a fraction of puzzles when compared with digital exercises, right? Ok, I see the positive aspects of using a physical board, but efficiency still is one of the most important factors in learning, I guess.
I just get one chance per day puzzle rush.
My average is around 24. In bad days, I get 20, in good days I get 28-31.
Just luck ( flukes from baseline).
Jul 30, 2019
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#14
EnergizeMrSpock wrote:
my best score is 33. Yes you would see more puzzles on a digital platform compared with physical board, but that is not the point. One needs quality over quantity if one wants to improve. The GM has carefully selected positions in a book like that and bunched them together by theme, online you never know where the games are from and so on... Physical board and book(the old school way), yes it's slower, but it is where everyone needs to start. Even the tech savy 13 year old GM's of today started by studying chess at the board, not the computer. It makes you take the training more seriously and you digest every position much better since you are really moving pieces, not cliquing the mouse. When you set up a position it takes more time, and therefore you stretch yourself more during calculation. Only when those younger now GM's got to something like 2000+, they started using computer more and more.
Interesting. The point about quality is of course important. Perhaps it is possible to use digital books but solving them nevertheless seriously. I have a compromise: I do not spend that much time to solve a problem for the first time, but I spend enough time repeating / understanding the puzzle. Usually I go through the puzzle mentally several times until I can solve them blindly, including the main variations.
I did his again today, but I am in a restaurant with very slow connection, so I guess I could get 23 or 24 (I had to wait several seconds to get the next puzzle). I do few Rush, but I train tactics in Chessable regularly.