Have you ever actually improved your Tactics Trainer rating?

Short answer: No.

Thanks everybody for posting : )

If I recall correctly, "Silman's rules of recognition" are intended only for tactics involving sacrifices, and therefore they won't point out every kind of tactical opportunity (for example, trapping the opponent's queen).

amirvladduce: Ah, it's no wonder that what you originally posted made me think of Winning Chess tactics, it's clear now that you've read the book too!

the difference between me and you is that you remembered the rules :)

Good point, an_arbitary_name, the rules would not allow you to find a trapped piece.

I tend to do TT after a few beers, my drunk rating is about 2050 something, my sober rating is about 2300.

Yes it does improve your chess, no question, I am closing in on 10,000 problems so it is not easy.

I agree that accuracy should be the goal rather than grading points, to that end I would like to reset my stats, how do you do this ??

I promise then to only play when sober

I'm around 1900+ and slowly rising but I get the feeling that my rating is only rising because I recognize so many problems for earlier tries and I simply remember the first move from the previous time. I'm worried that this is not improving my actual tactical sight but I'm not sure yet.

i think everyone has misunderstood the question....my question isnt whether it has improved your chess or board vision.....its--have you ever improved your rating?

after a couple weeks on TT i hit a peek and now hover around that....this happens to everyone....has anyone broken through that peek to a consistantly higher rating (say more than 200 points)?

My tactics trainer rating is 600 points below my chess rating which amuses me. But no, I can't seem to increase it above 1150. Lulz

when i do consistently, i go up slowly and steadily. when i take a break of, say, a week or more, then i go down first for a few days and then start going up again. i also noticed that being tired, even if a little bit, directly affects my tactics performance as well.

Yes, I have and it has continued rising slowly ever since I started going on intuition instead of actual calculation because it's faster and faster solutions give you points.

You should be able to see where I started tactic trainer

 go to tactics trainer, then Settings then Reset history

the op did not start this forum to ask that question:  "have you increased your tactics trainer rating?"    In fact, that is one he did NOT ask.

    it appears that groteskbold instroduced focusing on 'rating' and not on skill acquistion or speed improvement or board vision.

normal chess players do not focus on their rating, except to look at it as a 'yardstick' to measure their progress/improvement/declining ability - and seek to achieve greater 'board vision' or quicker 'board vision'  to find the correct or optimum tactic.

    It is sad that some who posted here are looking at rating as the only measure of worth.

I have improved about 400 points the last 6 months, only by doing Tactics Trainer:)

good for u...not relevant to the original  post though.