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Do more of them, get into a flow and abort bad runs. You'll probably knock out several 50+ results in half an hour. I'm stuck at 35 myself, but I'm blaming that on my touchpad. I need to find a mouse …

This is so nice!

what @tpr said... use the bulk of your time for the first 30-ish moves (if needed). Keep a 5 minute reserve for the rest of the game so you can still calculate one or two ideas and don't go into a bli…

A lot of people are saying this. I never played a lot of puzzles before the change, but I shot up from 2000 to 2500+ in these last few weeks and it's only here that the rapid raise is starting to slow…

Habits 4, 5 and 6 deal with interdependence. You could argue they apply to chess, but then I'm claiming Maslow's hierarchy of needs is really where' it's at for chess players. That and SWOT diagrams.

You're right that black can't move the rook without putting himself in check. But if white tried to capture the queen, white would be in check first. The rook does still cover that square. And since y…

@The-Asphalt-Ribbon, Any such collection will be arbitrary but here's a list of 'the 100 best chess games of the 20th century' by GM Andrew Soltis: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=…

Since before castling was a thing. They'd tar and feather you for pulling a stunt like that.

Thanks for the link. I see they also turned 3 of my ~1800 games into puzzles.

Your rating was over 2000 just a few days ago. It needs to be under the threshold for longer than that (over a week?).