When will my name be written in the Hall of Fame?
When Don completed his 7 circles he went through deep dales.
Now we see the struggle of FussyLizzard. These guys go deep and don't hesitate to take days off from work to stick to their schedule. If their gain is measured by their pain then they will become expert for sure!
If you compare that to me, who changes from scheme to scheme everytime things become inconvenient, then there is no justice done to their efforts when my name would be written in gold just by completing 7 circles of 1000 problems.
For people who think chesstraining is fun and who want a life next to the program we should apply different rules.
MDLM talks about 400 points in 400 days.
A typical program lasts 168 days.
So I suggest that eternal fame will come to me when my rating has risen by 168 points.
(I would be happy anyway)
What do you Knights think about this idea?
I made a schedule in Excel which applies a scientific approach to the intervals between repetitions. I don't think this system will become popular: to complete 7 circles will take you more than a year! (64 weeks to be exact) But you can do a lot of problems parallel.
If cognitive scientists are right, this is the best way to use our scarce human resources.
Well, we will see. I'm going to apply this on TCT step 5.
I'll keep you informed.
Update
Now we see the struggle of FussyLizzard. These guys go deep and don't hesitate to take days off from work to stick to their schedule. If their gain is measured by their pain then they will become expert for sure!
If you compare that to me, who changes from scheme to scheme everytime things become inconvenient, then there is no justice done to their efforts when my name would be written in gold just by completing 7 circles of 1000 problems.
For people who think chesstraining is fun and who want a life next to the program we should apply different rules.
MDLM talks about 400 points in 400 days.
A typical program lasts 168 days.
So I suggest that eternal fame will come to me when my rating has risen by 168 points.
(I would be happy anyway)
What do you Knights think about this idea?
I made a schedule in Excel which applies a scientific approach to the intervals between repetitions. I don't think this system will become popular: to complete 7 circles will take you more than a year! (64 weeks to be exact) But you can do a lot of problems parallel.
If cognitive scientists are right, this is the best way to use our scarce human resources.
Well, we will see. I'm going to apply this on TCT step 5.
I'll keep you informed.
Update
| TCT | # prbs | circle 1 | circle 2 | circle 3 | circle 4 | circle 5 | circle 6 | circle 7 |
| Stp3 | 540 | 96% | 97% | 97% | 400 | - | - | - |
| Stp4 | 560 | 94% | 95% | 95% | - | - | - | - |
| Stp5 | 580 | 75% | - | - | - | - | - | - |
When I was younger, I had many, many interests. I loved learning! However, I spread my learning over whatever suited my fancy at the moment. When I was nearly out of high school, my dad called me (in terms of my knowledge) a Jack-of-All-Trades-and-Master-of-None.
ReplyDeleteIt didn't really mean much to me at the time. However, that comment stuck with me through the years. It's taken 20 years for me to understand, but now I know that you can go a lot farther in life, and in chess, by becoming a Jack-of-Few-Trades-but-Master-of-One.
And so it goes....
I think you are right about the schedule taking a year.Curently, with the way I am doing the cirlces, I won't be done until October and I started in January.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it could theorectcially go until December.
Anyway, publish your shcedule so I can see what it looks like.
I have been thinking alot about modified 7 circles from your prior posts. Unfortunately we don't have enough folks proving his system right to to compare other programs with. It's clear that his later circles occur so quickly that it reinforces memory. It's seems like you could customize a program to first work on calculation and at switch to a memorization program. Since each step is grouped in sets of 10 problems, it would be easy to focus on the areas that really need work.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about your 168 days :-\. Consider De La Maza's plan for after the 1000 problems, i.e. alot of work still was required for him during those remaining 200+ days to get the 400 rating points. As far as days are concerned, if the whole 400 rating points occurs for me in 800 days, I'll be happy (lol). Of course I see myself as doing an incremental chess improvement rather than a rapid chess improvement.
Congrats to having reached 4th circle. I just started blogging (with a link to your blog) and I am in circle 2 with a special set of easy problems I collected from various sources and put together. I shall describe my method later in my blog.
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