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blitztactics ~ glicko

With computer-generated tactics, it's always difficult to say whether you've learned to think more like a computer.
It takes me 3 or 4 repetitions of each puzzle to get it into my short term memory for each level sound enough for me to then solve all 20 in the time limit.

So in some sense I have learned during the course of the level. Has it left any residual benefit that I can use in games? Maybe I get to experience some new mating patterns and I think especially the sacrificing ones might now be more readily accessible to me.

I am still itinerantly seeking the lazy mans magic bullet training technique.
You remember patterns. Chess is all about pattern recognition. So, after solving all 5334 puzzles in Polgar book, you will find all the mates quickly. Everyone can become very strong by practicing enough and some people need more practice than others. It is actually true for everything including chess, driving, solving math,stats, physics problems, learning new languages.
The blitz tactics has excellent "positions" section. Remembering the solutions to puzzles in their order is not helpful. Understanding the ideas behind the moves and being able to find the moves quickly is your goal.
I agree the endgame positions section of blitztactics is excellent. I'm working my way through them and waiting for the day where I can use that skill successfully in a game.

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