Are 15 enough?
I’d recommend somewhere between 1-1000.
Talk about an Unknowable Fact...just do whatever you're comfortable with. ;)
Do puzzles. If you're tired/bored of puzzles, that's how many you need to do everyday.
@IWillbeatMagnus8 said in #1:
> Are 15 enough?
Diving in the general puzzle pool wont help you at all.
You see, there are a lot of themes. Passed pawns, forks, skewers, pins, and other 100 or so.
So, say you have a stat of 0 in all 100+ of those themes. Every puzzle you solve correctly, will give you +1.
When you dive to the general pool, a random theme is going to pop up.. If there are exactly 100 themes, and your aim is to get 70 points on each, to begin, you cannot dictate which point to level up, as it is going to be random. but theoretically, you need 7000 solved puzzles to be +70 in all of them So you need 466 days of doing 15 puzzles a day to reach the level you want in all of them. But, thats only accounting if you got them all right and that they popped up in the correct sequence, which wont happen, as they are random.
However, if you do a custom theme, you can do those 70 puzzles per theme, and then move on to another one, so you focus the points exactly where you want to level up. and in that case, you will actually just need those 466 days.
However, this was just an example of why general pool wont help you. The reality is that chess its not like an rpg game where you get a +1 every time you solve a puzzle. To get that +1 you need to solve more than 1.
So the proper way is to do at the very least, around 50 a day, but stick to that theme for a week or so as a minimum, to get familiar with the theme and recognize a variety of patterns where that theme may arise.
If you want to be better, then do more puzzles a day on the same theme for even more time.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee.
Sharpen your single weapon. Its the only one you have, but it will be dangerous.
Once sharpened, get a second weapon.
But if you are useless in all themes, you have no weapon whatsoever. Thats what the general pool gives you. No weapon. Just a tool to pass time.
> Are 15 enough?
Diving in the general puzzle pool wont help you at all.
You see, there are a lot of themes. Passed pawns, forks, skewers, pins, and other 100 or so.
So, say you have a stat of 0 in all 100+ of those themes. Every puzzle you solve correctly, will give you +1.
When you dive to the general pool, a random theme is going to pop up.. If there are exactly 100 themes, and your aim is to get 70 points on each, to begin, you cannot dictate which point to level up, as it is going to be random. but theoretically, you need 7000 solved puzzles to be +70 in all of them So you need 466 days of doing 15 puzzles a day to reach the level you want in all of them. But, thats only accounting if you got them all right and that they popped up in the correct sequence, which wont happen, as they are random.
However, if you do a custom theme, you can do those 70 puzzles per theme, and then move on to another one, so you focus the points exactly where you want to level up. and in that case, you will actually just need those 466 days.
However, this was just an example of why general pool wont help you. The reality is that chess its not like an rpg game where you get a +1 every time you solve a puzzle. To get that +1 you need to solve more than 1.
So the proper way is to do at the very least, around 50 a day, but stick to that theme for a week or so as a minimum, to get familiar with the theme and recognize a variety of patterns where that theme may arise.
If you want to be better, then do more puzzles a day on the same theme for even more time.
"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee.
Sharpen your single weapon. Its the only one you have, but it will be dangerous.
Once sharpened, get a second weapon.
But if you are useless in all themes, you have no weapon whatsoever. Thats what the general pool gives you. No weapon. Just a tool to pass time.
@IWillbeatMagnus8
If there was secret number x for which doing as many puzzles would make anyone GM, then everyone would do it easily and be GM in no time!
The thing is, firstly chess isn't race. Play it slowly.
Secondly, there's no direct rule that playing more puzzles will improve one's play.
It is that one should be able to understand puzzles and be able to use them in their games is what matters. So, forgot number of puzzles to play per day. Just play handful of puzzles by full focus and play games as well else only playing puzzles won't improve. If you falter in puzzles, then play more of particular theme before playing games.
Hope you understand.
All the best!
If there was secret number x for which doing as many puzzles would make anyone GM, then everyone would do it easily and be GM in no time!
The thing is, firstly chess isn't race. Play it slowly.
Secondly, there's no direct rule that playing more puzzles will improve one's play.
It is that one should be able to understand puzzles and be able to use them in their games is what matters. So, forgot number of puzzles to play per day. Just play handful of puzzles by full focus and play games as well else only playing puzzles won't improve. If you falter in puzzles, then play more of particular theme before playing games.
Hope you understand.
All the best!
I doubt there is a faster pace of improvement based on puzzles. Solving puzzles is like benchpressing workout, but benchpressing is not enough to win the Arnold Classic :)
"Sharpen your single weapon. Its the only one you have, but it will be dangerous.
Once sharpened, get a second weapon."
If you have too many weapons you will get confused how to operate them, which to chose or you will not use them in time. It's better to have a few reliable weapons than a ton of impractical garbage. Dumping all the dustbin on your head, is how general puzzle pool works. Moreover those puzzles are usually bad.
Once sharpened, get a second weapon."
If you have too many weapons you will get confused how to operate them, which to chose or you will not use them in time. It's better to have a few reliable weapons than a ton of impractical garbage. Dumping all the dustbin on your head, is how general puzzle pool works. Moreover those puzzles are usually bad.
@pointlesswindows said in #8:
> I doubt there is a faster pace of improvement based on puzzles. Solving puzzles is like benchpressing workout, but benchpressing is not enough to win the Arnold Classic :)
Yeah, only puzzles won't do. For improvement one would require them to use in real games to understand and improve pattern recognition.
> I doubt there is a faster pace of improvement based on puzzles. Solving puzzles is like benchpressing workout, but benchpressing is not enough to win the Arnold Classic :)
Yeah, only puzzles won't do. For improvement one would require them to use in real games to understand and improve pattern recognition.
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