2800 in Puzzles. Making a comeback.

Well, it took a while to do it, but I finally hit 2800 in my puzzle rating. Mostly I find a lot of the puzzles and their solutions to be quite ridiculous, but I I figure this new milestone indicates I am improving tactically, even if only slightly. 

After a brutal tilt that saw me fall from my new peak at 1600 all the way back to where my last big tilt ended, I just lost all motivation and quit playing for a while. I've only been studying the openings I can recall seeing frequently ( Queen's Gambit, London, Scotch, Ruy Lopez, Italian, etc.) and trying to create drills out of certain lines or ideas. I started playing again on the other site and I am definitely rusty. But I am going to approach analyses of games more objectively with the intent to learn from my mistakes and hold myself accountable for them. Time to get back to the grind. Hopefully here soon in the coming days. 

Best vibes as always! 

Sounds like you have a plan for improving your game. Best of luck!

You’re not alone.

Im taking a break from serious chess for the rest of the year.

Nice! I got bored and quit puzzles after I reached 2800

I like your positivity! Need more people like you on this site

Good job 👍

congrats

That's very impressive! To put that in perspective, I'm only around 3000 rating in puzzles even though I'm a 2000 rated rapid player. My suggestion to you is something I think a lot of other intermediate players should do: start learning positional play more. Tactics will definitely help you, but now that you're an intermediate player, I would recommend learning more positional play. My tactics have stopped increasing as rapidly, but my positional play is decent and is only improving. I think it's the combination of tactics and positional play setting up tactics that will get you to an advanced level.

Good job

I did the same thing when I reached 3300. I didn't do any for about 3 months. Just started again and instantly went down about 60 points.

Cool! 🙂♟️

What does the puzzle rating actually mean? On the leaderboard there are people with scores of over 65,000!!

I want it

Think I got up to around 2800 on puzzles on previous account then burnt out as it wasn't fun anymore. Trudging back from low elo with this new account and very much enjoying the games, win or lose as Im throwing curvballs in and not worrying about my elo. Puzzles and games lost their enjoyment for me when I was aspiring for more eventually.... Was hundreds of hours before burning out though 😬😄

yeah, there is some truth in that. But if you are increasing it does mean you are doing something right and practicing well. It can sharpen the tactical side of the game, but not the strategic side or the openings

Congratulations! Happy for you.

i'm playing these puzzles casually. And i too think 2800 is a new milestone, as i was in 2600~2700 category for long time. And now, i'm about holding my new 2800 points, and they're much more difficult. So often i actively have to calculate variants now and have to think twice whether it's time to just capture a piece and call it a day or if i again miss a quiet move or so. Mostly all previous puzzles i was able to intuition my way through, despite a few rare endgame studies, where i had to calculate. Well, and i'm 1550 rapid with an almost 40% win chance against 1700+ players by now. And my national ratings are also climbing.
But others than most of ya, i'm getting the fun of these new harder puzzles. Yea, it's annoying, to loose them like up to 60% of the time, but they're harder and each successfully solved puzzle is more valuable, even though i still have to beat like 56% on average or else i will fall back to 2700 and below. So, i'm either solving a lot on the same day to recover losses or i'm using stop loss rule there, depending on my performance.
Yea and i get the feeling of being able to burn out, or whatever the professional attitude would look like. My "time window" for a good enough performance on these puzzles shrinks. Wouldnt wonder if when i can reach those sweet 3000, that i would have like 30min per day like trice a week for them.

You did it, congrats!