This morning I had a small session on the Chess Tactics Server, it really amazes me that, if that information is in fact accurate, there are so many Dutch tacticians there. Apparently there is a huge Dutch chess scene, in combination with good Internet access.
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.
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...
ReplyDeletei sternly but constructively suggest you ONLY do CTS 90% and above. you are learning correct chess thinking, not speculative dashes toward rating or rapidity.
ReplyDeleteas you know, i am dkTransform 89% for 42k and dogWaste 96.4% for 7k.
warmest, dk
chessloser & dk,
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteno less than 80.0%!
ReplyDeletedktransform 43k at 89%, in top forty by tries and
dogWaste 7k at 96.4%, in top ten out of 2800 users.