Why I Love Tactics Trainer

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19th June 2009, 08:49pm
#1
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 10171
19th June 2009, 08:53pm
#2
by Masterful_Forfeit
Saskatoon Canada
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 1172

Hehe. Nice

19th June 2009, 08:54pm
#3
by farbror
Uppsala Sweden
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 2420

Oh, really nice!

19th June 2009, 08:55pm
#4
by Politicalmusic
Alabama United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 2450

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: 421

slick

20th June 2009, 05:11am
#7
by aansel
Long Island United States
Member Since: Dec 2008
Member Points: 682

Nice use of the 2 Bishops and attacking an undefended King

20th June 2009, 12:52pm
#8
by Al_Qamar
Toshkent Uzbekistan
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Member Points: 5020

Nice

20th June 2009, 07:11pm
#9
by Politicalmusic
Alabama United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 2450

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
#10
by arthurdavidbert
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan United States
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 231

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

21st June 2009, 05:25pm
#11
by Tommyohe
United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 571

Nice OneSmile

22nd June 2009, 10:10pm
#12
by erik
Mountain View, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 10171

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
#13
by PawnToD4
Manila Philippines
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 29

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.

30th June 2009, 08:02am
#14
by PawnToD4
Manila Philippines
Member Since: Feb 2008
Member Points: 29

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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