tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post611026024938039752..comments2024-03-28T01:17:43.262+01:00Comments on Temposchlucker: Dissection of a microdrillTemposchluckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-37611991090167117152011-02-23T09:16:56.772+01:002011-02-23T09:16:56.772+01:00The SuperMemo people say that getting the right re...The SuperMemo people say that getting the right repetition schedule increases the rate at which you acquire knowledge by up to fifty times. This may be an exaggeration, but the basic message is right, according to the peer reviewed papers. See the early articles in my blog. The basic technique for chess tactics is simple. Pick problems that you can get right reasonably quickly. Practice them until you can do them very quickly. Redo them as often as you need to maintain that performance.Geoff Fergussonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677387413949625511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-65897707705886650322011-02-22T21:16:18.497+01:002011-02-22T21:16:18.497+01:00Bright, you certainly have a point to work out. My...Bright, you certainly have a point to work out. My experiences with the drills point in another direction than I first thought. I will elaborate on this in a new post this week.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-35638237556880165072011-02-22T21:07:31.534+01:002011-02-22T21:07:31.534+01:00I believe that conscious feedback is important. I...I believe that conscious feedback is important. If you get the solution to a problem wrong, it helps to work out why you got it wrong, and what you could have done to get it right. (Being too slow can be “getting it wrong” in this context.)<br /><br />Finding simple chess tactics is mostly an automatic unconscious process (unless you are a beginner). If you get it right very quickly, so quickly that you did not have time to work it out, that proves that you are doing it on autopilot. If you do not solve a simple problem quickly, you have not demonstrated even temporary success at the skill.<br /><br />You need to find the solution quickly, and have as much time as you need to reflect if you do not. If you fail to get the solution, a fast time limit is bad, because finding the solution for yourself is much more instructive than being told the answer - but spending too long on a problem is bad time management. <br /><br />The number of repetitions is critical. If you do not constantly repeat a complex skill it will disappear. If you want to retain the skill to spot a tactical pattern, you have to practice that skill for the rest of your chess playing life (ideally every time you are just about to lose it). (Being too slow constitutes “losing the skill” here.) If you do not repeat a skill, you do not know whether you still have it.<br /><br />The spacing between repetitions is critical. If you space them too widely you will remember very little, and if you space them too closely you will forget most of what you have learned very quickly.Geoff Fergussonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677387413949625511noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-88985857321379853302011-02-16T15:15:53.305+01:002011-02-16T15:15:53.305+01:00"The dutch champion is 16"
As far a I ..."The dutch champion is 16" <br /><br />As far a I know, Jan Smeets is 'already' in his early twenties :-). However the former Dutch champion was 15...papablancanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-17613296990892446382011-02-14T08:42:02.512+01:002011-02-14T08:42:02.512+01:00"Mate in 1" might be more in the sense o..."Mate in 1" might be more in the sense of microdrill. At many Mate in 1 i have still to calculate. Next step maybe "short combinations"Uwe Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-77598581692195493042011-02-13T23:26:46.832+01:002011-02-13T23:26:46.832+01:00"The tasks have to be simple. More like 7 x 8..."The tasks have to be simple. More like 7 x 8. But then by heart."<br /><br />"CT-Blitz preverence difficulty easy" and then extra cycles with the wrong-made-ones to learn them "by heart". ( Maybe to-slow-sloved-problems should be cycled to. )<br />Thats what i try at the moment.<br />You need to SEE the tactic and check it = about 1 min.<br />To search for a CT-standard-tactic at OTB takes usually to much time because you have to look for so many things.<br /><br />Be aware of http://chesstempo.com/user-guide/en/tacticRatingSystem.html#duplicateTreatment<br /><br />7*5 takes a little child 1 or 2 min before they learn it by heart. A Problem in Blitz at CT takes 1 min to.Uwe Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-45811342516363133962011-02-13T11:25:53.004+01:002011-02-13T11:25:53.004+01:00NM Dan Heisman said:
Suppose you are an experienc...NM Dan Heisman said:<br /><br /><i>Suppose you are an experienced player with good board vision, but<br />have not extensively studied basic tactical patterns. Then you can see<br />what is happening on the board, but instead of quickly and accurately<br />recognizing basic tactical possibilities for both sides, you have to figure<br />them out. This would be equivalent to knowing how to add, but not being<br />able to recognize the answer to basic multiplication problems. For<br />example, when presented with the problem 8x7, you would have to add<br />up seven eights or eight sevens, instead of just answering 56. Therefore,<br />you are not only slower, but less accurate, because knowing the solution<br />reduces error in trying to figure it out.<br /><br /></i>Most exercises are about 4521 x 9472. We have to drill the tables of multiplication though. What does that mean in chess?<br /><br />The tasks have to be simple. More like 7 x 8. But then by heart.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-28891795473631593832011-02-13T09:45:32.824+01:002011-02-13T09:45:32.824+01:00-"Ask yourself what that means for the ratio ...-"Ask yourself what that means for the ratio knowledge : skill."<br /><br />Jung people have more energy!, more willpower, flexibillity, are more awake, have more speed.. Older people have to compensate with experience, wisdom, calmness.. <br /><br />"First time exposure to new idea's." helps improving in OTB. Khmelnitsky wants us to fokus our training at a catehory whe are weak in but<br />-Without an improvement in tactics to masterlevel we can hardly get our OTB to masterlevel..<br />- but maybe the improvement in Strategy, opening, endgame and so on can give a "sceleton" to improve in tactics again?<br /><br />-I watched a GM playing a Blitzgame with a member of my chessclub. The GM was so friendly to share ith us what he did see. Withot any doupt he did "see" tactics in a position like i do see a red spot on a white wall.<br /><br />how could microdrills help to see tactics, ..i have to think about thisUwe Alexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-44186729189454934062011-02-13T00:27:23.779+01:002011-02-13T00:27:23.779+01:00All the 5 idea's you mention I have done IN EX...All the 5 idea's you mention I have done IN EXTENSO. All idea's fell from the bandwagon.<br /><br />Sofar I have found 4 methods that worked:<br />First time exposure to new idea's.<br />Troyis.<br />Blindfold chess (partly).<br />Naming squares.<br /><br />The last 3 are microdrills.<br />None of these 3 microdrills is decisive due to futility. But they point out the direction.<br /><br />So the quest is to find out which tasks <i>are</i> decisive and then develop a drill for them.<br /><br />The highest rated person in the world is 20. The dutch champion is 16. Ask yourself what that means for the ratio knowledge : skill.Temposchluckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07977208394417444785noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10713928.post-19927995667488353872011-02-12T23:48:09.035+01:002011-02-12T23:48:09.035+01:00"if you train too slow then there is no need ..."if you train too slow then there is no need for the brain to transfer the task to a fster part of the brain."<br /><br />Some ideas:<br /><br />There is CTS with about 3sec, Blitz at CT with maybe 1 min and Standard CT with several minutes.. one should do?<br /><br /><br /><br />I see the at CT some doing an easy ( low rated like 1500-1600 ) trainingset over and over again, with low error-rate! and seemingly automatic increasing speed. This set has 3158 problems, more than you can easily learn by heart. Typical speed about 1 min. I think this method is requested by Dan Heisman.<br /><br />How about: "back to the roots".<br />De la Mazza did a set of about 1000 "good" chosen problems with increasing speed.Uwe Alexnoreply@blogger.com