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 various tiers progress though.

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 challenging puzzles, your rating will often fluctuate wildly. Think of the puzzle rating as a sort of training score, not an indicator of your actual game strength.

This course will help you develop your openings, middlegame, and endgame. Keep going through the course lessons to connect your strategic understanding with the tactical awareness from the puzzles, and your game strength will grow quickly!

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?