Work and family have kept me busy recently, so I haven't been posting much; I didn't have much to say, in any case.
I've still made some time each day to work on tactics. I posted a month ago that I'd finally settled on CT-Art 3.0 as my next problem set. Well, I'm proud to announce that I've just finished...Tactics Module 01 in PCT. That's me: decisive. I noticed that I've memorized a few incorrect patterns, repeating the same mistake each time I see the problem, so I'm taking some time to review the module in an attempt to unlearn those patterns. It seems that unlearning a bad pattern is more difficult than learning the correct pattern in the first place -- I'll need to watch out for this in the future.
Meanwhile, I just hit 30,000 problems at CTS. My rating has stayed in a narrow band, but my success rate has risen to 75.5%. Onward and upward!
Monday, June 11, 2007
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i didnt know that you were a CTS user, and it is good to know that another one of us heavy jubalee users are here...
(wormwood, likeforests, temposchlucker [now inactive at CTS], chessdog [not at blogger but reads here], laskoVortex [patrick chess for blood, i think], prufrock [unknown blogger, but at CTS comments says he is here], to name but a few.
having mentioned your 75.5% average, have you thought about moving up towards 85% or 90%?
while it might take a long time to get your overall average there, you could ANNUALIZE that amount right away, and see how it affects your 'real chess'?
warmly, david
Ah, I didn't see this comment, or I would have responded sooner. Now that it's weeks later, I'm probably talking to thin air.
David, I've seen many of your blog posts and comments on the CTS forum; your experiences were a big part of the motivation for improving my success rate.
I just went back and calculated the percentage since I started working on improved accuracy; I was disappointed to see that my success rate over that span was only 80%, worse than I had expected. It seems that I remember the 19/20s, and forget the disasters; there's still a whole lot of room for improvement...
Regards,
Matt
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