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Probably 5-10 puzzles a day may be better than 50 puzzles a day, depending on your skill and difficulty of puzzles. (assuming you spend 1-2 hours per day)
Always keep target to get minimum of 2/3 right, sometimes spend 15-30 mins or more in diifficult puzzles.

Probably 5-10 puzzles a day may be better than 50 puzzles a day, depending on your skill and difficulty of puzzles. (assuming you spend 1-2 hours per day) Always keep target to get minimum of 2/3 right, sometimes spend 15-30 mins or more in diifficult puzzles.

pawnmulch

#12

i'd try chesstempo for tactics.... lichess tactics are not very varied. it's one size fits all, literally. i do puzzles really slow, and have a higher rating than another guy who may solve puzzles really fast. chesstempo has slow and fast tactics... then chss.cm has ...uh, it's called puzzlerush. id recommend those other sites for tactics, not lichess.

sorry lichess! in most other ways, you're the best.................

i'd try chesstempo for tactics.... lichess tactics are not very varied. it's one size fits all, literally. i do puzzles really slow, and have a higher rating than another guy who may solve puzzles really fast. chesstempo has slow and fast tactics... then ch*ss.c*m has ...uh, it's called puzzlerush. id recommend those other sites for tactics, not lichess. sorry lichess! in most other ways, you're the best.................

Ahmadinejad

#13

dit - dah , you could also try the chessbase.com tactics site

https://tactics.chessbase.com/

Lichess puzzles are ok as a diversion, but just not near as helpful ( I do them every now and them on a separate account , and have about a 2140 Lichess puzzle rating, but I still don't like them ). You get only one shot, and they don't really guide your learning.

On chessbase, you get to solve multiple moves in a row. So if you the first move in the combo, you can still gain points solving the steadily simpler positions as you get close to the winning one. And you can get hints that tell you what theme to focus on ( IE, "fork", decoy, deflection, weak back rank, etc ) I found their puzzles to be a huge aid in developing my tactical vision. I've improved it greatly since I joined here in 2018, but the Lichess puzzles were almost no help --- they just let me confirm that I'm getting better.

dit - dah , you could also try the chessbase.com tactics site https://tactics.chessbase.com/ Lichess puzzles are ok as a diversion, but just not near as helpful ( I do them every now and them on a separate account , and have about a 2140 Lichess puzzle rating, but I still don't like them ). You get only one shot, and they don't really guide your learning. On chessbase, you get to solve multiple moves in a row. So if you the first move in the combo, you can still gain points solving the steadily simpler positions as you get close to the winning one. And you can get hints that tell you what theme to focus on ( IE, "fork", decoy, deflection, weak back rank, etc ) I found their puzzles to be a huge aid in developing my tactical vision. I've improved it greatly since I joined here in 2018, but the Lichess puzzles were almost no help --- they just let me confirm that I'm getting better.

Alakaluf

#14

IMHO, you should not do hard puzzles. When you are doing lichess puzzles, they are always at the frontier of your capability.
I believe, you should mostly do easy puzzles. Such a type where you can solve maybe 90% in less than 2 minutes.
And I can recommend Farnsworth's chesstactics.org very much, too.

IMHO, you should not do hard puzzles. When you are doing lichess puzzles, they are always at the frontier of your capability. I believe, you should mostly do easy puzzles. Such a type where you can solve maybe 90% in less than 2 minutes. And I can recommend Farnsworth's chesstactics.org very much, too.