Nilocra_the_White wrote:
Congratulations. So Sleep depravation is the real secret to improving your game... Hmmm....
Today I could feel the lack of sleep and drop a lot of points in TT... It seems it works only in the first time.
Yesterday 1500, today 1600 in TT
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Nov 16, 2017
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#23
JordanNexhip wrote:
That's really not a good way to improve your tactics rating lol
No, its not. Train regularly and with good quality, that is the key.
Nov 16, 2017
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#24
Drewsef916 wrote:
and by whole line i mean checking every variation if jt busts the tactic or saves my opponent and means its the wrong move. So calculatinf every variation. It is time consuming but pays off and is rewarding when it plays out in the board how u saw in your head after this effort
It is what we have to do OTB, for sure. How many times I lost against beginners because I didn't calculate anything. I am trying to change this.
Nov 16, 2017
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#25
torrubirubi wrote:
True i just solved 3 2000+ tactics in a row. You can see in my stats.. but for 2 of them i took almost 20 minutes each! it is time consuming but worth it. Just remember: There is a forced line in the puzzle so check the absolutle forcing or only moves. Checks and sacrifice. Many times there is more then one way to chec k the king then you have to calculate every variation to see which is best. But forcing moves first even if it looks like you just sacrificed your queen for nothing
Drewsef916 wrote:
and by whole line i mean checking every variation if jt busts the tactic or saves my opponent and means its the wrong move. So calculatinf every variation. It is time consuming but pays off and is rewarding when it plays out in the board how u saw in your head after this effort
It is what we have to do OTB, for sure. How many times I lost against beginners because I didn't calculate anything. I am trying to change this.
Nov 16, 2017
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#26
Drewsef916 wrote:
torrubirubi wrote:
Drewsef916 wrote:
and by whole line i mean checking every variation if jt busts the tactic or saves my opponent and means its the wrong move. So calculatinf every variation. It is time consuming but pays off and is rewarding when it plays out in the board how u saw in your head after this effort
It is what we have to do OTB, for sure. How many times I lost against beginners because I didn't calculate anything. I am trying to change this.
True i just solved 3 2000+ tactics in a row. You can see in my stats.. but for 2 of them i took almost 20 minutes each! it is time consuming but worth it. Just remember: There is a forced line in the puzzle so check the absolutle forcing or only moves. Checks and sacrifice. Many times there is more then one way to chec k the king then you have to calculate every variation to see which is best. But forcing moves first even if it looks like you just sacrificed your queen for nothing
Yes, the forcing lines first, and check the stupid-looking candidates (they can be the right continuation). I will give a go with tactics or today or tomorrow and I will try to give my comments to the exercises here, just for fun.
Nov 18, 2017
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#27
Hey today i made up to 1900 just now. So that is 300 points in 4 days. All thanks to the article!
Nov 18, 2017
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#28
Drewsef916 wrote:
Hey today i made up to 1900 just now. So that is 300 points in 4 days. All thanks to the article!
I LOST almost 100 points in two days, so I will go back to the article and read it CAREFULLY! And congratulation for the amazing jump!
Tomorrow, 400.
(Jk)
(Jk)
Nov 18, 2017
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#30
torrubirubi wrote:
Thank you. Just take your time.. dont focus on rating. make sure you understand completely the puzzle. if your not sure do not try and make a move yet!! some puzzle took me almost 30 minutes calculating wrong moves then i see the best move.. like why u didnt see it at first? But its practice
Drewsef916 wrote:
Hey today i made up to 1900 just now. So that is 300 points in 4 days. All thanks to the article!
I LOST almost 100 points in two days, so I will go back to the article and read it CAREFULLY! And congratulation for the amazing jump!
Nov 18, 2017
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#31
I took a booklet and wrote: "I will use this booklet to track my exercises on tactics. I wan to get more efficient in my training. Only trying to guess or spend a lot of time missing the most obvious moves - this is not helping me at all."
"I will write down the number of the exercise (in TT) and the main idea (or ideas) in my attempts to solve the problem. If I miss the right continuation, I will study the exercise carefully and write down some "guidelines" to help me for the next exercise."
A new era is beginning! Let's start to study like a rational human being!
Nov 18, 2017
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#33
It works! I did twice, and both were correct, although I got only 1 point for the solution. The position 174967 was obvious (double attack on a piece, winning the piece), but I calculated the zwischenzug with the knight and found the right continuation.
Only two exercises, but the thing is promising!
Nov 18, 2017
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#34
Yes dont worry about tje points but it gives you a knew confidence that you can master parts of chess
Nov 18, 2017
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#35
Drewsef916 wrote:
Yes dont worry about tje points but it gives you a knew confidence that you can master parts of chess
You are right. The points are only helping me to see if I am doing well, but I prefer to take a single point in 50 exercises where I spent a of time thinking then to win 50 points more or less guessing the moves but then losing everything again in few exercises.
Nov 18, 2017
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#37
TheMouth888 wrote:
2307, my current rating. I'm milking every last drop of my 1 week free membershup lol.
Free membership? How this?
Nov 18, 2017
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#39
TheMouth888 wrote:
Free trial membership. and yes. I hadn't tried TT for almost 2 years, that's why i went to 2306 (actually).
I can only dram from such rating. Well, at the moment I am working point for point, trying to calculate until the end. My problem is that I see a key move, often the right one, see a possible continuation ("he has more material, so I go for a perpetual, that's easy") and see that instead of draw I could have the queen. Or: I will queen and he cannot prevent this: great! But I make a queen (giving my opponent the initiative and probably allowing to checkmate me) instead of giving checkmate! Boy, this hurts! But I am writing everything down, a kind of list of the most stupid things you can do in TT, and hope to get used to finishing my calculations and not getting focus on the first idea I see.
I have gone from 1910 to 1950 purely by playing Crazyhouse
I never played this.