Progress Report
Just finished my problems for Monday at 11:31 p.m.
Problems: 1168 - 1177 (Level 90+)
Score: 51% (ouch)
At least I got 110 / 110 on one. Doing well on one helps motivate me to keep going after a few < 20% on a few...
Update on Tuesday:
Finished problems 1178 - 1187 (Level 90+)
Score: 52%
posted by fussylizard @ 9:31 PM
2 Comments:
Good luck to all of you on the program. Hang in there and it will help. A couple of things I came to realize (that you may already know):
1) Don't get too hung up on the score from each practice session. Just do your best. I believe a big part of the program is the consistent practice on a regular basis. Similarly, don't pay any attention to the ELO rating CT-ART gives you; it has no bearing on the real world :)
2) The big difference between solving a tactics problem and playing in a real game is that with tactics problems, you know there's a tactic that works out. It's often not too hard to find the first move in a CT-ART problem, and then figure out the rest as you go. I strongly recommend you first try to calculate out the whole thing before making the first move, because this is what you'll have to do in a real game. Many real-game positions look just like CT-ART tactics problems but contain a saving resource for your opponent after you've sacrificed material for an attack that doesn't quite work. I don't consider myself as having gotten 100% on a problem unless I've done that. But given the practicalities of limited time, and the difficulty of the harder CT-ART problems, that's not going to happen as much as you'd want. Again, just do the best you can. You'll still benefit from finding your way as you go, and in the later cycles that's about all you can do anyway (and as de la Maza says, in the later cycles you're working primarily on pattern recognition instead of calculating ability). Another reason I tried not to get too hung up about the scores.
I'm really looking forward to seeing how everybody does. I started noticing improvement in my OTB tournament play around halfway through the program.
Please feel free to get this to everyone else in the group if you think it might be useful.
Chris,
i forgot who said it but: "Don't look at your rating, it's only a number of your achievements in the past. Your chess strenght is what matters."
A whole lot of thruth said in a few words.
logis
http://logis.modblog.com
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