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Another night of dropping 150 points doing tactical problems. I need to fix this and I really don't know how. I'm under 1350 and the way it is going it would not surprise me if I drop below 1300. If I take my time and solve it correctly I lose points because I don't solve it fast enough. If I try and solve it quickly, well let's just say I nose dive like I have been doing tonight. This tactical blindness of mind on certain days is just absurd. There has to be a way to fix this. I'm open to suggestions and ideas.

I don't know if I need to work from the ground up doing simple problems over and over again until it just sticks in my head permanently or if I need to resign myself to my stupidity. The funny thing is when I have enough time, i.e. correspondence games, I can usually find and work my way through some that I cannot even solve in the trainer. Again it just doesn't make any sense.

I do need to study more games and do my self game annotations that I haven't started yet. I've been having an issue finding, well making, the time. I don't know if it will help my tactical vision, but it should help with my positional understanding which is currently better than my tactical ability. It would be nice if I could get all of my ducks in a row and make some real progress in my chess play.

More tactical insight

I haven't been doing as many tactics as I have in the recent past and my tactical rating has gone down, but it appears my success percentage is slowly going up. I must assume as a whole that, in the long run, is what is important and shows true tactical growth. I'd be interested in my brothers conclusions on his own tactical stats and see if they follow a similar pattern. Perhaps he'll comment and enlighten us on his tactical endeavors.

I'm also interested in working on self annotating my games without the use of a computer. I think this would be good practice in learning more about the subtleties in a position. I'll need to allot some time for this. Time allocation, I dare say, has been something I'm doing very poorly at.

Here is a recent game from a tournament for your enjoyment. It ends in a nice mate due to a tactical shot.

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
8									8
7									7
6									6
5									5
4									4
3									3
2									2
1									1
	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H

viltaire - Dmar993

1-0, 6/28/2013.

[#] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 a6 6.Bc4 b5 7.Bb3 e6 8.O-O Be7 9.f4 O-O 10.e5 dxe5 11.fxe5 Nfd7 12.Qg4 Nxe5 13.Qe4 Bc5 14.Be3 Nbc6 15.Nxc6 Bxe3+ 16.Qxe3 Nxc6 17.Rad1 Qe7 18.Ne4 Qa7 19.Qxa7 Rxa7 20.Nd6 Bd7 21.Rd3 Na5 22.Rdf3 Be8 23.Bxe6 Nc4 24.Nxe8 Rxe8 25.Rxf7 Raa8 26.Rf8# [1-0]

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