Has anyone improved yet? (General)

by malcolm, Thursday, December 21, 2006, 22:01 (6694 days ago)

How is everyone else doing ? Tactics are my weak point. Yet after doing the tactical exercises every month, my rating for this year was exactly the same as last year. I have read that it is very difficult for adults to improve. Maybe just doing the puzzles is not enough and I need to find a new way of thinking about tbe problems ? I am still capable of learning new things - for example I noticed that doing suduko, I would gradualy pick up new ways of solving them and get faster, but somehow it doesn't seem to happening in chess anymore.