Everyone just types in "nice" or "easy" or quotes "you solced the puzzle!" It's spam and it makes it harder to analyze the puzzle with people interested in posting about variations in the puzzle. For example, today I wanted to look at 5. ....Qa1 but any discussion about the puzzle has 15 spam comments in between any analysis. I like this article by torkil: http://www.chess.com/article/view/advanced-tactics  which looked at a daily puzzle in detail. It would be nice if we could break down and analyze puzzles like this right in the forum posting of the puzzle.

For today  I wanted to look at  the following variation,  which I found also lost for black:

I agree.

spam or span you meant?

amen.

i'm glad people agree with me. Unfortunately I see absolutely no way possible to prevent it. I guess I'll just have to stop grouching and deal with it.

I think that daily puzzles are one of the main sources of points...

Bookworm!!!! " nice game" ??? are you trying to push my buttons? What the hell are you talking about? Its as bad as the daily puzzle! And I'm going to assume kingskiller is being sarcastic.

nice post. easy. ;)

thanks for that.didn't know that

erik wrote: nice post. easy. ;)

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 haha, took the words right out of my mouth.  I agree with you though shaman.  Those "nice & easy" comments get annoying.

i didn't understand the post the 1st time i read it.  but then i got it!

It's one of the ways people rack up points. I'm all in favor of disabling puzzle comments for the following reasons:

-spam

-people may make posts that give away the solution

-if someone finds an alternate line or wants to do an in-depth analysis of a given puzzle they can just create a new topic which will garner more attention and will be easier to find in archives anyway

depthshaman wrote: Bookworm!!!! " nice game" ??? are you trying to push my buttons? What the hell are you talking about? Its as bad as the daily puzzle! And I'm going to assume kingskiller is being sarcastic.

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 I'm always sarcastic. Except when I say that I'm sarcastic.

Good one.  (oh, sorry)

If I were to suggest guidelines to improve communication for analysis, I'd say go really light on the "knight moves to f7 then rook to b1 next move" stuff.  1.Nf7 2.Rb1 is much more efficient.  When I'm not up for small talk in the analysis discussions, I filter through the spam real quick.  I just scroll until I see a chess board or some actual PGN.

1. Nf7 ~ 2. Rb1 is even more understandable and efficient, AquaMan

Wow, I've never seen the tilde symbol used.  Maybe because the other half-move is usually included.  I'm sure you're right.  Thanks.

May be it's not tilde, but it's the most like-looking symbol at my keyboard. it's always used in puzzles with meaning "Any move"

I think this is the way I lost one of my games. . .

Now i know what I did wrong. . .  

thanks. i agree. i always get frustrated when people don't bother to read all the comments before asking a question that has already been answered, but covered up by all the spam. perphaps you should report thsi to the staff.