One massive problem I see is how to motivate the players who will lose their chance to compete for first. Back in the day interzonals (which this basically is) awarded like 10 places, so even the guys who started slow could get in through a good finish, which now obviously won't be the case. So I guess they have to have like a ton of monetary prizes, starting with something like 70th place or so, and then increasing every 10 places up to like top40, then every 5 places up to like top20, and then maybe increasing with each spot. Or something like that. Else after like 3 rounds half of the tournament will have only rating to play for...
Yeah. It's also pretty unclear where a few of the invites are going to come from. I guess they will still run a Grand Prix? Seems they could make a couple more part of the swiss or maybe run a few swiss tournaments. That would be so much more fun than the Grand Prix, which was pretty awful.
I started playing Puzzle Rush last week. First try was 13, now I am up to 20. I can play multiple times a day despite only having a free account.
I don't think it helps with tactics per se but I think it might improve board vision. How can the king be mated? Is there a hanging piece? Any forks/double attacks available? Any discovered attack? etc.
I am usually very slow recognizing these things but Puzzle Rush forces you to consciously look for them.
Recently discovered PR and it's fun even though I suck at it -- my best is 12. I think the first time it let me play like 5 times but since then only once a day on my free account.
I recommend checking out Hikaru on Twitch just to hear his thinking process and see how fast he solves them. I watched him do a 55 once and I'm not even sure that was his best.
Also has anybody tried out puzzle rush? I tried it but given I'm a free account with 1 go a day I've only managed a 34 so far
Pretty impressive.
I watched a few of Eric Hansen's streams around the time when it first came out and 35 was when he usually started getting frustrated and swearing at himself.