Thank you all for contributing to this thread :-)
@FredtheCrusher, glad to hear that players rated some 400 points higher than me can suffer from the same "disease". And that one is not doomed to the sub 2000 levels because of it.
@RegisLakrids, I have tried bullet. My bullet rating (on chess.com) is like 800 (while I am 1800 FIDE). It is highly dependent on internet connection.
@BlackSalt, curious to hear how that works out. Maybe your tool is a good "conditioning" tool for checks and for keeping a whole board vision.
@HORRORMAKER, @zorba7676, interesting.
The question is how to train oneself to *consistently* spot the patterns. I have done 10000s of tactics puzzles, and should have seen the most of them by now -- and the last 10000 puzzles has not increased my tactics ratings at all.
Maybe at certain age new patterns become _very_ hard to retain?
I just did an experiment:
Using a paid account on chess.com, I set the tactics trainer to give me problems in the 800-995 range. Since my TT rating is 2500+, I should get the 800-900 puzzles within target time, and never spend several minutes on a problem with target time under 15 seconds? Right?
Wrong. Most of them I did fail to solve within the target time, but solved them in less than 20-30 seconds. But interesting is the one in 20 puzzles (or so) I could stare at for minutes (usually over 3 but less than 7) before seeing the rather obvious tactic. So this kinda proves that the "disease" is real and not just imagined.
@FredtheCrusher, glad to hear that players rated some 400 points higher than me can suffer from the same "disease". And that one is not doomed to the sub 2000 levels because of it.
@RegisLakrids, I have tried bullet. My bullet rating (on chess.com) is like 800 (while I am 1800 FIDE). It is highly dependent on internet connection.
@BlackSalt, curious to hear how that works out. Maybe your tool is a good "conditioning" tool for checks and for keeping a whole board vision.
@HORRORMAKER, @zorba7676, interesting.
The question is how to train oneself to *consistently* spot the patterns. I have done 10000s of tactics puzzles, and should have seen the most of them by now -- and the last 10000 puzzles has not increased my tactics ratings at all.
Maybe at certain age new patterns become _very_ hard to retain?
I just did an experiment:
Using a paid account on chess.com, I set the tactics trainer to give me problems in the 800-995 range. Since my TT rating is 2500+, I should get the 800-900 puzzles within target time, and never spend several minutes on a problem with target time under 15 seconds? Right?
Wrong. Most of them I did fail to solve within the target time, but solved them in less than 20-30 seconds. But interesting is the one in 20 puzzles (or so) I could stare at for minutes (usually over 3 but less than 7) before seeing the rather obvious tactic. So this kinda proves that the "disease" is real and not just imagined.