This week I managed to fulfill my plans.

Things that went well

• I managed to solve tactics the correct way (always calculating everything before making the first move) most of the time;
• my ChessTempo standard rating is rapidly increasing.

Things that could / should be improved

• I didn’t do much besides doing tactics. I didn’t play a lot, and I didn’t read any books;
• although my ChessTempo standard rating is increasing, it results in me getting harder and harder problems to solve. It causes two things:
  • some of them are beyond my capabilities (there’s no way of solving them without guessing – even after thinking for 20-30 minutes)
  • it takes me more time than average to solve most of the problems (I don’t know whether it’s necessarily bad – it’s good that it makes me think deeply, but sometimes it turns solving method into pure brute force, which as far as I know is not beneficial for learning).

Day by day

2019-02-19

• did 40 minutes of tactics as planned
• solved problems from a certain book for 5 minutes

2019-02-20

• did 40 minutes of tactics as planned

2019-02-21

• did 40 (+10) minutes of tactics as planned

2019-02-22

• did 40 (+5) minutes of tactics as planned
• played 6 classical games
• played 1 rapid game
• played some blitz & ultrabullet

2019-02-23

• did 40 (+30) minutes of tactics as planned

2019-02-24

• did 40 minutes of tactics as planned

Rating summary

Playing

• lichess blitz: 1716 (+10)
• lichess rapid: 1707 (0)
• lichess classical: 1757 (-8)

Training

• lichess tactics: 1941 (0)
• Chesstempo standard tactics: 1743 (+30)
• Chesstempo blitz tactics: 1665 (0)