Tactics I am continuing doing tactic problems around 15-20 a day and my tactics rating keeps growing (now around 2180). It is indeed pleasing, but I am wondering where I am going to reach plateau. Anyway, the immediate point is, that if the ratin...
Tactics During last couple of days I solved 30 tactical problems (22 correct, 8 wrong) improving my tactics rating according to chess.com tactics trainer to 2147. Wondering how accurate this estimate is and if (when) it would convert into OTB rat...
Tactics I am starting to like chess.com tactics trainer more and more. It is still far from being perfect indeed, but what I like about it in particular is the fact that there are problems that are not about gaining decisive advantage, but rather...
Due to my work I wasn't really able to do any training for last couple of days. I did do a few tactic exercises and as well played a few blitz games, but I wouldn't consider this a training, merely a pastime. Tactics Today I did 20 exercises on ...
Today I encountered a very nice problem But honestly before moving pieces I calculated only till 1. Bh7 Kxd5 2. Bf5 h2 3. Bc8. I thought it would be 3. ... h1Q 4. Bb7+ =, but I totally overlooked blacks defensive move 3. ... Kc6!. It took me ano...
Tactics Today I did around 50 tactical problems on chess.com. Unfortunately chess.com stats shows only 30 last problems so I can't tell for sure how much I did and how much I got right and wrong. Out of last 30 I got 23 right and 7 wrong. The re...
Tactics Today I did 20 problems on chess.com tactics trainer. I got 15 problems right and I failed 5 problems. Also out of 15 problems I got right there were at least 3 problems in which I didn't see all the lines before moving the pieces. Ov...
I am going to be training in 5 areas. Tactics My biggest tactical flaw is that I often don't calculate good enough and often miss defensive opportunities of my opponent, I often fail to see his best defense against my threats and this leads to ...
