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With the first third or so problems I really was in some kind of flow, no matter what the rating I just knew what to do. I did lose some points there, but I just didn't fail. Then in the second third it was 50/50 and the last third went rather well again. In the end I had a score of 35/49 correct, which translate too 71,4%.
Although I don't particularly like seeing my rating drop, I really feel that getting my succes percentage from at least 2/3 to 3/4 is the right path to follow. After all, practicing tactics is a mean and not an end. One missed tactic can and will loose a game, a few tenths or hundreds of seconds won't necessarily do so.
This is my current status at the Chess Tactics Server:
Handle mentat
Country Netherlands
Rating 1204
Current RD 48.8
Highest Rating 1247
Date of HR 2008 Jul, 03 - 10:38
Tries 705
Success 65.5 %
I hope to be doing session of, for starters, about 50 problems daily. Let's see what happens. I won't write about it daily, I don't want to bother my, so far non-existent(?), audience and I'm more interested in long-term results.
Look at the steep climb that starts around the 150 last problems, that was that flow I was talking about.
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DO NOT worry about the rating. i used to but it was explained to me, play slow and play the right moves, and over time the rating will come...
i sternly but constructively suggest you ONLY do CTS 90% and above. you are learning correct chess thinking, not speculative dashes toward rating or rapidity.
as you know, i am dkTransform 89% for 42k and dogWaste 96.4% for 7k.
warmest, dk
chessloser & dk,
I agree with your suggestions, and slowly I also act accordingly.
Thanx!
Dont look at your rating, if your chess strenght goes up the rating will folow.
no less than 80.0%!
dktransform 43k at 89%, in top forty by tries and
dogWaste 7k at 96.4%, in top ten out of 2800 users.
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