Interesting, thanks for the advice. I would agree that it's a world of difference to evaluate a board where you KNOW there is a tactic, and one where there MIGHT be a tactic, and that feels like what I struggle with the most. I haven't tried watching stronger players, I'll give that a shot. Thanks again!
Tactics over 2000, Puzzle Rush at 27, Blitz under 1000
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It seems to me that the tactics rating (called Puzzles actually) is not an elo rating at all: the leader currently stands at 15,000+!! It is in fact cumulative, and mostly reflects your activity. And I can only second not-a-rapper's excellent advice: you need to improve and playing too much blitz too early can actually be harmful. But for starters, focus on having your pieces always defend each other, unless there is some tactics (but after the tactics, you need to get them mutually protected again, which gives you a plan), it will get you a long way.
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idfx wrote:
It seems to me that the tactics rating (called Puzzles actually) is not an elo rating at all: the leader currently stands at 15,000+!! It is in fact cumulative, and mostly reflects your activity. And I can only second not-a-rapper's excellent advice: you need to improve and playing too much blitz too early can actually be harmful. But for starters, focus on having your pieces always defend each other, unless there is some tactics (but after the tactics, you need to get them mutually protected again, which gives you a plan), it will get you a long way.
It is a rating. The puzzles have ratings and when you try one, the rating algorithm treats it like a game and both the tactic and player rating changes at puzzle completion.
There is apparently a method that some players use to get insanely high ratings. I think every puzzle gives at least one point on a successful solve, so that could be part of it.
Martin_Stahl wrote:
It is a rating. The puzzles have ratings and when you try one, the rating algorithm treats it like a game and both the tactic and player rating changes at puzzle completion.
There is apparently a method that some players use to get insanely high ratings. I think every puzzle gives at least one point on a successful solve, so that could be part of it.
Something like that probably, yes. My own rating is way above what it should be (2300+) and keeps climbing up even though I'm not solving difficult puzzles, or only rarely. Tbh, these puzzles are ridiculously easy compared to other sites (at least one that I know).
Btw, what is the Puzzle Rush rating? I'm 48 and I have no idea why, my best score in 5mn is only 30, and I've seen one profile of a guy who has reached 41 problems solved but is rated 50. I don't think it's the Puzzle Battle rating, this one looked like an elo last time I played.
I understand that the chess.com tactics ratings are a bit inflated, with many people having tactics scores that exceed their Rapid or Blitz rating by 300-400 points. However, I just broke 2000 in tactics, but my Blitz ratings are terrible (rating currently below 1000), which seems like a really extreme gap. Also, my puzzle rush rating is 27, which also seems high for a sub-1000 blitz rating.
Over the past two months I have played over 200 blitz games, over which my blitz rating dropped from near 1200 to the high 900s. Over this same period, my tactics score floated around 1800.
So, I was wondering if anyone had any advice? To complement my tactics efforts, I have also been studying strategy a bit. I completed Chernev's "Logical Chess: Move by Move", and Sierewan's "Winning Chess Strategy". These definitely helped my Daily rating (now at 1500), but I don't seem to be bridging the gap to blitz. Thanks in advance!