How I became 200 points better in chess.com tactic puzzles over night!
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Hi, folks. Have been playing puzzles for a couple of years, and suddenly I found out how to become better! Just want to share it with you, if anyone has teared their hair as much as me. I simply decided to pay no attention to my rating, and just concentrate on solving at least 3 out of 5 puzzles. Made my self an excel document where I plot how many out of five puzzles I solve, with an easy but fancy bargraph, and percentages and really easy excel stuff. Suddenly I went from 1600 to 1850 in a couple of days! NO MORE LOOKING AT RATING, UNTIL I'M FINISHED FOR THE SESSION. THEN I LOOK AT THE RATING, WHILE SMILING.
Hmm, it looks like about 100 points in a week. May 5th you ended at 1712. Right now you are at 1812.
That's still good. I personally have found that if I just concentrate and don't worry about the time and don't give up until I am sure, I do much better.
/ 13,788 tactics. That's a lot.