Minicircles 1-4 done

I've worked through my first problem set four times now. It is Stage 1 of Chess Tactics for Beginners, which consists of 120 mostly easy mate-in-one problems. I am starting to do many of them without thinking (some I would have done without thinking anyway: there are a couple of elementary back-rank mates in there). It is a strange feeling, blowing through problems without effort. It feels like cheating, like I should be slowing down and thinking things through more. If it were a game, of course, I would have to do that, but such rapid pattern recognition is what I'm trying to attain. I just need to remember not to get cocky and think that it means I can play like this in real games!

If I could spot every two move mate and tactic on every move this way, I'd probably be rated four hundred points higher...

Percent Correct in Circles

	Mini-Circle 1	MC2	MC3	MC4
Problem Set 1	98	99	99	100
PS 2
PS 3
PS 4
PS 5

NOTE: Circles done with CTB.