On Jan 29, I hit my high for Lichess puzzles at 2311. At that moment, my Lichess blitz rating was 2043 which is pretty close to my average rating over 6000 games.
On Feb 5th, I read the article linked "Are Chess Tactics Too Hard" and started doing only Lichess tactics at -300
My puzzle rating dropped like a stone. By Feb 20th, it hit a low point of 1840 after several dips and gains.
My blitz rating started making a climb and hit my all-time high at 2230 just now.
Coincidence? Maybe?
I find myself enjoying tactics more and motivated to get steaks of 10+ correct.
At -300, my approach to tactics is different. I'm trying to be perfect, not uncover some idea that is hidden and hard for me to see. I rarely get "stumped" by the tactics but I get one wrong it is because I miss a move order trick or miss a hidden response at the end of a tactic - the ideas are not novel or hard for me to understand but the execution is sometime faulty. That's the part I'm training.
I suspect for me, training to be "perfect" directly impacts my rating but I've been over 2200 before and maybe this is just a blip and I'm assigning some explanation to something that is purely cyclical.
We'll see how long I stay above 2200. In the past its only been for a couple days.
On Jan 29, I hit my high for Lichess puzzles at 2311. At that moment, my Lichess blitz rating was 2043 which is pretty close to my average rating over 6000 games.
On Feb 5th, I read the article linked "Are Chess Tactics Too Hard" and started doing only Lichess tactics at -300
My puzzle rating dropped like a stone. By Feb 20th, it hit a low point of 1840 after several dips and gains.
My blitz rating started making a climb and hit my all-time high at 2230 just now.
Coincidence? Maybe?
I find myself enjoying tactics more and motivated to get steaks of 10+ correct.
At -300, my approach to tactics is different. I'm trying to be perfect, not uncover some idea that is hidden and hard for me to see. I rarely get "stumped" by the tactics but I get one wrong it is because I miss a move order trick or miss a hidden response at the end of a tactic - the ideas are not novel or hard for me to understand but the execution is sometime faulty. That's the part I'm training.
I suspect for me, training to be "perfect" directly impacts my rating but I've been over 2200 before and maybe this is just a blip and I'm assigning some explanation to something that is purely cyclical.
We'll see how long I stay above 2200. In the past its only been for a couple days.