Sometimes I feel the problems between 2000 - 2200 is harder than the problems between 2200 - 2400. Why is that? Is it something to do with the scoring system? Or my imagination? Or is it just that one is sometimes blind for easy one or two move problems but can see 3 - 5 move combinations easier because there is some familiar pattern - you know where the problem is heading towards.

another thing maybe that the tactics 2200-2400 is more difficult but I ve seen it somewhere before in a tactics book or so.

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I agree. Very true.

Well, there is also a lot of tactics problems above 2200 that repeat themselves. Recently Ive got 3 problems (different problem numbers) with precisily the same position - this helps to keep you above 2200 in TT.

From: ilmago
Oct 19, 2011 @ 11:38am
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Hi forrie,

thanks for pointing out that tactics trainer problem 0171578.

You were right to notice that there was something unusual about that problem. The main line was very easy (easier than players at that level would expect their problems to be ). In addition, there was a second solution that was also winning quite a lot of material.

So I have now deleted that problem from tactics trainer because it was ambiguous.

Thanks for helping to improve tactics trainer

Cheers, mago (tactics trainer moderator)

Hi Ilmago

I am glad someone now agrees with me.

It is still a good problem. Maybe one can just change the rating level to let say 2000 or so?

Keep well