Ryan Vermeulen
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Ryan Vermeulen posted an update 5 weeks ago
New here, hello everyone.
Just got the course and I’m loving it so far. I just started playing chess about 6 months ago. I learned how the pieces move when I was a kid, but never really played. I play very well in longer format games, still learning to do it fast. I was told puzzles are the way. Has anyone else played so many puzzles that you start back at wood on chess.com?
Keith F and Team-ChessVibes3 Comments-
I generally do the daily puzzle at chess.com every day, Monday puzzles are typically very easy, then they get more difficult throughout the week. Additionally I typically do a puzzle rush and a few other puzzles every day trying to get better at tactics pattern recognition. I’m currently in the stone tier of puzzles, not sure how the…
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Hi Ryan, welcome! Glad to hear you’re loving the course so far and that you’ve recently gotten back into chess!
It’s great that you’re seeing the importance of tactics and puzzles, they’re the best way to improve your pattern recognition and tactical awareness, which is a major factor in breaking past 1500 ELO.
When you start doing many…
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I thought I was good at tactics. I have 258,524 points for puzzles currently. I’m learning fast, but now that I’m most of the way through module 4, I’m seeing that I still have a lot to learn. I started doing custom puzzles for a specific tactic on chess.com I figured after 100 of them I should have the concept burned in. Is there a better way?
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