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19th June 2009, 08:49pm
#1
by erik
Bay Area, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 12891
19th June 2009, 08:53pm
#2
by Masterful_Forfeit
Saskatoon Canada
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1167

Hehe. Nice

19th June 2009, 08:54pm
#3
by farbror
Uppsala Sweden
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 2762

Oh, really nice!

19th June 2009, 08:55pm
#4
by Politicalmusic
Georgia United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 2458

Ha nice.  Yeah, f3 was pretty bad in general...

19th June 2009, 09:04pm
#5
by KriptikMike
Elk Grove, CA United States
Member Since: May 2009
Member Points: 156

Nice one erik, I love the the tactics trainer too.

19th June 2009, 11:33pm
#6
by Fuz
Austin, Texas United States
Member Since: Apr 2008
Member Points: 428

slick

20th June 2009, 04:43am
#7
by atomichicken
United Kingdom
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 1285

Nice. I know you as the owner of this site won't appreciate this, but I would never recommend to a student any online tactics trainer that generates positions mostly randomly (from what I've heard) and doesn't give one a chance to try the same positions again and again. Of course doing any kind of tactical training will improve one's game anyway, but to really drill the patterns into the mind I believe puzzle books are best. The positions are less randomly generated, one's not tempted to rush without understanding the position just to get a better score and I think most importantly one can work on specific chapters again and again until they've got all of the positions memorised. Also, for me staring at a screen for half an hour or more just isn't very pleasant..

Just my opinion. Innocent

20th June 2009, 05:11am
#8
by aansel
Long Island United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 913

Nice use of the 2 Bishops and attacking an undefended King

20th June 2009, 12:52pm
#9
by Al_Qamar
Toshkent Uzbekistan
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 5817

Nice

20th June 2009, 07:11pm
#10
by Politicalmusic
Georgia United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 2458

You are certainly not a modest winner Erik!  If we ever play, please x out my game unless its a win!  lol

21st June 2009, 05:30am
#11
by arthurdavidbert
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 471

I love the tactics trainer, but I have trouble moving fast enough.Cool

21st June 2009, 05:25pm
#12
by Tommyohe
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 602

Nice OneSmile

22nd June 2009, 10:10pm
#13
by erik
Bay Area, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 12891

sorry to toot my own horn, but i had another tactics trainer moment just now. i saw this when i played Qh5. i knew he wouldn't be able to resist the thought of "winning a piece" (forking bishop on c4 and rook on h1).

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=21995194

fun!

(FYI - i've already set the conditional moves to win in either case)

22nd June 2009, 10:43pm
#14
by PawnToD4
Manila Philippines
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 30

Nice job erik!

Here's a suggestion though, and one that picks up from atomichicken's: Add to the tactics trainer so that users are able to choose problem sets that they can practice over and over again, so that they get the patterns more easily. Maybe this would need tactics categorization so that, say, I would choose 20% of the problems in my problems set to be forks, 20% skewers, 20% decoys, etc.

This might obviously go into the premium features but it's definitely worth it if it's there.

23rd June 2009, 01:28am
#15
by atomichicken
United Kingdom
Member Since: Aug 2008
Member Points: 1285
PawnToD4 wrote:

Nice job erik!

Here's a suggestion though, and one that picks up from atomichicken's: Add to the tactics trainer so that users are able to choose problem sets that they can practice over and over again, so that they get the patterns more easily. Maybe this would need tactics categorization so that, say, I would choose 20% of the problems in my problems set to be forks, 20% skewers, 20% decoys, etc.

This might obviously go into the premium features but it's definitely worth it if it's there.


I second that. I think it would set your tactics trainer apart from the other free ones out there.

30th June 2009, 08:02am
#16
by PawnToD4
Manila Philippines
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 30

That's not to say that the feature I mentioned should go into premium at its current price -- I understand that at present the premium membership already gives a whole darn load of value already. Maybe another membership level?

 

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