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15+10 Is All You Need

@LiterallyPanda said in #12:

I've been doing basically this, it made my puzzle rating go up to ~2000 but my ELO hasn't moved at all, still scrub-level. (900-1100 or so) It just doesn't seem to work. Games/tactics are definitely not all you need, but I don't know what else you need.

You should try to learn pattern recognition. Try this: create a new account for puzzles with the "easiest" setting or -600 rating. Practice puzzles with this setting every day for 30 minutes. You should solve 30-60 puzzles or 1-2 puzzles per minute. So you can't focus too much on accuracy but also speed.

This way trains your pattern recognition.

@LiterallyPanda said in #12: > I've been doing basically this, it made my puzzle rating go up to ~2000 but my ELO hasn't moved at all, still scrub-level. (900-1100 or so) It just doesn't seem to work. Games/tactics are definitely not all you need, but I don't know what else you need. You should try to learn pattern recognition. Try this: create a new account for puzzles with the "easiest" setting or -600 rating. Practice puzzles with this setting every day for 30 minutes. You should solve 30-60 puzzles or 1-2 puzzles per minute. So you can't focus too much on accuracy but also speed. This way trains your pattern recognition.
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@lampiopasa said in #21:

You should try to learn pattern recognition. Try this: create a new account for puzzles with the "easiest" setting or -600 rating. Practice puzzles with this setting every day for 30 minutes.

I appreciate your suggestion, but this does kinda seem like a complete waste of time - doing simple back rank or 1/2 move checkmates endlessly is not going to give me anything I need for an actual game, and I'm sure that the easiest puzzles on this site I can already do 10-20 a minute, not 1 or 2. (I average 5-10 a minute when I set my existing account on -600.) But even if it weren't it's a violation of the site TOS - we signed a thing that said we would not create an alt account when we signed up here. =/

@lampiopasa said in #21: > You should try to learn pattern recognition. Try this: create a new account for puzzles with the "easiest" setting or -600 rating. Practice puzzles with this setting every day for 30 minutes. I appreciate your suggestion, but this does kinda seem like a complete waste of time - doing simple back rank or 1/2 move checkmates endlessly is not going to give me anything I need for an actual game, and I'm sure that the easiest puzzles on this site I can already do 10-20 a minute, not 1 or 2. (I average 5-10 a minute when I set my existing account on -600.) But even if it weren't it's a violation of the site TOS - we signed a thing that said we would not create an alt account when we signed up here. =/

Off topic but I really like the simple financial advice. The reality is that it is just very hard to consistently beat the market, and the management fees are not worth a possible slight gain. Jack Bogle was laughed at when he popularized the index fund, but his Vanguard group grew to be one of the biggest in the world.

Off topic but I really like the simple financial advice. The reality is that it is just very hard to consistently beat the market, and the management fees are not worth a possible slight gain. Jack Bogle was laughed at when he popularized the index fund, but his Vanguard group grew to be one of the biggest in the world.

Seems like solid advice. Pretty much all masters say they did a bunch of tactics and played a lot of games. And if you think about the masters of the past like Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine, how could they have gotten good at chess? They didn't have the internet to play blitz and watch YouTube, so it seems like mostly they just played slower games or reviewed other master's games and deeply analyzed them.

If you watch the documentary, it's clear that a lot of the students do extra chess work outside of school, so I would view this advice as more of a "minimum effective dose" than a complete study plan. I think if you took the advice in this blog and paired it with a good chess book, you'd be hard pressed not to see improvement in your game.

Seems like solid advice. Pretty much all masters say they did a bunch of tactics and played a lot of games. And if you think about the masters of the past like Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine, how could they have gotten good at chess? They didn't have the internet to play blitz and watch YouTube, so it seems like mostly they just played slower games or reviewed other master's games and deeply analyzed them. If you watch the documentary, it's clear that a lot of the students do extra chess work outside of school, so I would view this advice as more of a "minimum effective dose" than a complete study plan. I think if you took the advice in this blog and paired it with a good chess book, you'd be hard pressed not to see improvement in your game.