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I definitely haven't been completely successful at this and still sometimes blunder to this day, but three factors have helped me at least reduce the blunder frequency: 1. Understanding and reminding …

Intruiging topic. Very interesting too about that second data point and its interpretation. I think in chess you need pattern recognition as well as calculation. I can see how calculation skills might…

Great advice. What I also found helpful is to recall how big natural fluctuations in playing strength are. If you improve 100 points worth of playing strength in a year, that is amazing for most adult…

I think the article contains good advice for solving tactics puzzles that are meant to be about calculation. I still like training exercises such as puzzle racer because those can help you to become m…

@DeepHuman_95 said in #9: > The question you should ask yourself is why you want to do something that is not fun. If training isn't fun and the only goal is to improve your playing strength, I don't t…

Interesting article - I think it's also useful for those who want to improve to know what it is they enjoy about improving, if anything. Because if an activity is ultimately not enjoyable in any way, …

@Sarg0n yeah, all good points. What's more, even if the puzzle's rating was increased it would still be a similar situation and probably the solution shouldn't be to take the puzzle out of the puzzle …

@HPC10411038 sorry if I didn't manage to explain well what I meant. @mkubecek I agree there is no easy way around it. Perhaps if there was a way to add rating points to puzzles which have resources fo…

I'm not sure if this is an issue as such and maybe this is already common knowledge, but it's something I've noticed in a few puzzles and it seems unfortunate. Take this puzzle for example: 3r3k/6bp/6…

@KevinWeinberg said in #470: > It was designed to do so. The article was written for no other reason than to bring division and anger in a CHESS COMMUNITY of all places. I guess that's why it had the …