Could anybody recommend any free online coarses or maybe even software that could help me with tactics. Kinda like tactics trainer if possible. Thanks :)
Chess Tactics
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I use three main websites to help me with tactics: chess.com, which you can only really benefit from using as a Premium member due to its limited tactics for Basic (and to an extent, Gold) members, chesstempo.com, which has many tactics and other features for free (although there is a paid option), and chesscademy.com, which has a free tactics trainer (be warned that the trainer is slightly buggy; it often repeats tactics and recently there were website problems where the trainer either wouldn't load or wouldn't count points for your rating when you did tactics) and a variety of courses taught by NM Andrew Ng (the courses are often not too time consuming, but still very informative; I completed them all in 3 days after joining (mainly because I had a lot of spare time on my hands!)) that discuss tactics as well as many other aspects of chess.
I've been meaning to sign up for chesstempo.
Edit: I just signed up for chesstempo. My only issues with it are a) There is no way to reset your tactics rating (it uses the Glicko rating system - I kept bombing tactics because I wasn't used to the site and my rating dropped 500 points in ten minutes) and b) there is SO MUCH on the page, it overwhelms by brain and pains my eyes.
camberfoil wrote:
Edit: I just signed up for chesstempo. My only issues with it are a) There is no way to reset your tactics rating (it uses the Glicko rating system - I kept bombing tactics because I wasn't used to the site and my rating dropped 500 points in ten minutes) and b) there is SO MUCH on the page, it overwhelms by brain and pains my eyes.
I don't think the rating systems with tactics are fair, either- it always seems I lose more points for missing a tactic than gaining points for getting it correct. I prefer the rating system on chess.com's Tactics Trainer.
This thread is specifically devoted to discussing tactics.