Finally broke 1500! Joined this course last year and wanted to say thanks to Nelson for putting this together and for the community of people in this blog. My recipe was doing puzzles daily – got my peak rating up to 2500, and forcing myself to stop studying and play more.

This is the game that pushed me over – its not my cleanest game nor does it have as many fun tactics as the two games before. But I’m posting it because I’m proud of how I handled the pressure. This is a 30min game and I won with 2 seconds on the clock, which is really how I can tell I’ve grown.

Thanks again!

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