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I have problems getting higher than that by some way.
I find that I am in a weird place where I can deal with much harder puzzles (I have even solved some 3000 ones) but cannot do well on 2300-2500 puzzles specifically. Maybe it is something in my head, maybe because when I have set the hard puzzles I have more respect for them and thus spend a lot longer making sure it is correct I am not sure.
What I would say, is that puzzles above 2300 tend to involve a lot more quiet moves and a lot less spectacular queen sacs thus you need to consider many more things.
The best piece of advice i got from someone is if you REALLY want to improve your puzzle capabilities, do NOT go to the next puzzle before you are 100% sure you have solved the current one even if it takes hours to solve it.
Good luck:)
@spectrox75 said in #2:
> I have problems getting higher than that by some way.
> I find that I am in a weird place where I can deal with much harder puzzles (I have even solved some 3000 ones) but cannot do well on 2300-2500 puzzles specifically. Maybe it is something in my head, maybe because when I have set the hard puzzles I have more respect for them and thus spend a lot longer making sure it is correct I am not sure.
> What I would say, is that puzzles above 2300 tend to involve a lot more quiet moves and a lot less spectacular queen sacs thus you need to consider many more things.
> The best piece of advice i got from someone is if you REALLY want to improve your puzzle capabilities, do NOT go to the next puzzle before you are 100% sure you have solved the current one even if it takes hours to solve it.
> Good luck:)
I totally agree with you. Am still solving the woodpecker method, and am seeing an improvement in my puzzle rating too. However, am still unable to cross the 2000 puzzle rating. But am determined to do so soon.
Well I got to ~2400 mixed but it was taking too much real-time to maintain this level so I switched to mate-in-2s only. I am now 2600+? I actually quite like the total hairiness of this since when you get one wrong you can easy drop 65+ rating. Highest I have achieved is 2620? Debating whether to push for 2700?
The conclusion I came to is that if you are not a novice/beginner you should only use the puzzles to top up your tactical prowess - just do a fixed number before play. Obviously if you are a novice/beginner you should go all out puzzles as this should be the biggest return for your real-time.
Having a high puzzle rating hasn't done my gameplay on short duration gaming any good - as far as I can tell. I am around 1300 to 1600 gameplay wise, needless to say on correspondence formats I am much more lethal, but again real-time availability gets in the way.
Checkmate puzzles are good for calculations
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