Great work Martin (and of course all the participants). I’m curious to know how many players pause the think about why they failed to solve a puzzle rather than move on to the next one.
of course one cannot do this during a rush or storm but generally when solving puzzle. the reason i’m asking this because i question the benefit of rushing or storming through puzzles the way we eat popcorn while watching a movie (at least how i eat popcorn 😄).
yes, there are patterns to be learned and reinforced but not every position holds a pattern at least not a learnable one.
I do believe a puzzle must be timed but there has to be reflection period once the time is up and a solution is not found. thoughts?
I was wondering if I should have done a follow up questionnaire, but then again I think I used 3 full evenings making the diagrams 😄 and definitely agree with you that your approach should be more effective.
I always go back through the missed puzzles after for that reason. I try not to let the missed ones distract my focus during but not always successful with that
I did checked the puzzles I failed after each runs and barely improved. Usually I would get a 95 percents or above accuracy, but I feel like it’s my ability to scan the board at high speed that is OK for my level but hard to improve much in 2 weeks. I don’t have data, but feel like I am stronger at blitz after the 2 weeks but am making more blunders at rapid and classical. I am relearning to think properly before moving haha. I feel like puzzle storm or rush are Ok to improve at blitz or for people having issues playing in time trouble.
Interesting date breakdown and thank you for the insights. Was fun to participate. Will be interesting to see how my scores do over the next couple of months.
Super interesting results! I do think I got a bit sharper at tactics, but my calculation may have suffered a bit afterward. However, I’m back to studying tactics on lichess where there is no timer and am finding that overall I’m doing rather good (around 2400 puzzle rating which is HARD to maintain).
Very interesting work. It might be interesting to tease out whether there improvement among Puzzle Rush players was because they were doing the Puzzle Rush or because they were doing "chess stuff" generally.
Great work Martin (and of course all the participants). I’m curious to know how many players pause the think about why they failed to solve a puzzle rather than move on to the next one.
of course one cannot do this during a rush or storm but generally when solving puzzle. the reason i’m asking this because i question the benefit of rushing or storming through puzzles the way we eat popcorn while watching a movie (at least how i eat popcorn 😄).
yes, there are patterns to be learned and reinforced but not every position holds a pattern at least not a learnable one.
I do believe a puzzle must be timed but there has to be reflection period once the time is up and a solution is not found. thoughts?
I was wondering if I should have done a follow up questionnaire, but then again I think I used 3 full evenings making the diagrams 😄 and definitely agree with you that your approach should be more effective.
I always go back through the missed puzzles after for that reason. I try not to let the missed ones distract my focus during but not always successful with that
I did checked the puzzles I failed after each runs and barely improved. Usually I would get a 95 percents or above accuracy, but I feel like it’s my ability to scan the board at high speed that is OK for my level but hard to improve much in 2 weeks. I don’t have data, but feel like I am stronger at blitz after the 2 weeks but am making more blunders at rapid and classical. I am relearning to think properly before moving haha. I feel like puzzle storm or rush are Ok to improve at blitz or for people having issues playing in time trouble.
Interesting date breakdown and thank you for the insights. Was fun to participate. Will be interesting to see how my scores do over the next couple of months.
Super interesting results! I do think I got a bit sharper at tactics, but my calculation may have suffered a bit afterward. However, I’m back to studying tactics on lichess where there is no timer and am finding that overall I’m doing rather good (around 2400 puzzle rating which is HARD to maintain).
Very interesting work. It might be interesting to tease out whether there improvement among Puzzle Rush players was because they were doing the Puzzle Rush or because they were doing "chess stuff" generally.
Thanks, Daren! So you theory would be that the chess.com group was more studious compared to the lichess group?