Forget about the timer and just concentrate on solving the problems. Go back over the ones you miss until you get them. Don't worry about your "score" or "rating" and start concentrating on learning tactics. Once you get the hang of it you should see an improvement in your turn-based rating as well as in your tactics trainer rating.
This is giving me a hard time :/
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NimzoRoy wrote:
Forget about the timer and just concentrate on solving the problems. Go back over the ones you miss until you get them. Don't worry about your "score" or "rating" and start concentrating on learning tactics. Once you get the hang of it you should see an improvement in your turn-based rating as well as in your tactics trainer rating.
Thanks for the tip. I'll forget about the timer from now on :-)
Also agree.
Speed training makes more sense for basic tactical motifs....things that don't go beyond 2-4 ply as opposed to some of the more elaborate combinations seen on the trainer here.
In an actual chess game, you are less likely to "consciously" look for a winning move and more likely going to respond to "pattern alarms" your eyes + brain send out the minute something tactically viable is present and worth some analysis on.
So focus on accumulating a ton of patterns first, then worry about the speed of recall later.
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Hi.
This is mostly a discussion thread, but also a question thread. Is there any way to reduce the timer on the tactics trainer? I usually only have a couple of seconds to think an advanced tactic, and trust me, it takes me minutes just to think a SIMPLE tactic.
I've dropped from 870 to 666 in my tactics score. I suck so badly, I only complete 20% of all tactics, and those are the obvious ones.
So is there a way? The timer is the #1 problem, after it gets bellow 50% it drops from your score, that's unfair.