Dan Heisman says THIS about tactics training...

Dan Heisman suggests speed training 2000 tactic problems rated under 1200 until your accuracy > 85% and average solve time < 15 seconds.  He thinks it may be the single most useful thing a beginner can do. What do you think?

One book that Dan recommends to burn in these fundamental tactical patterns is Chess Tactics for Students by John Bain.

Dan also say this, "To emulate the Bain level on Chess Tempo, set the level of problems to ~900-1250." I set both Chess Tempo and our own Tacitcs Trainer here to that unrated range. I like it, as the problems look like positions I would see in my own games, but definitely NOT at the level of automaticity, where I know the answers in under 15 seconds. I'm still kinda slow, averaging about 30-45 seconds per problem. I need a faster processor upstairs!

Might be worth the effort.

How did you change the chesstempo ratings to 900-1250?  I'm not seeing it anywhere in the "preferences" section.

I wouldn't listen to a word that primadonna blow hard says, his opinion is that dry, outdated and worthless.  Yes I mean it.  

Contra Fish_Ninja, I wholeheartedly recommend doing this.  I've found it easier to do on Chess Tactics Server, myself.  I set the problems to 1100-1300.  Do maybe a couple dozen problems once or twice a day, and you'll start internalizing the basic patterns, which of course are the building blocks for higher-level tactics.  Another tip is to zoom the screen in so the board is bigger, especially if you want to improve your over-the-board chess.

I think Dan's on the right track. Of course, that's just one uninformed person's opinion.

Hi I am trying to do this for quite some time now. Create a pgn file of tactics problems from books for beginners and practice them again and again. Unfortunately neither am I getting a software for creating "pgn puzzles" now I am getting a proper software where I can practice these tactics exercise.

The closest you get to is the chess.com  feature where one can create such position. Lucas chess software is a close second but again no idea how to create these pgn puzzles. 

Any guidance on this would be most welcome. 

just for example, how I setup a position from one of Bain's tactics. 

Is there any software where I can create tactics drills like below ?

thanks  

I usually create pgn files in Arena, then import them into Fred Mellender's tactics trainer, YATT. (Thank you, Fred!) Your mileage may vary. To be honest, you can create pgn files in many, many GUIs; I'm just most familiar with Arena.

http://www.playwitharena.com/

https://sites.google.com/site/fredm/Home

Before I started using YATT, I used either Scid or Scid vs. PC (I don't remember which) for offline tactics practice. I've never tried Lucas Chess.

It is very easy to create these using ChessBase.

Regardless of which GUI (Graphical User Interface) you're using, the general procedure is:

1) Set up the desired board position (making sure you specify which side is to move, and any other required variables such as castling rights, en passant rights, etc.).

2) Ensure the GUI is set up to let the operator move for both sides, so any installed engine won't try to move any of the pieces.

3) Manually make all necessary moves for both sides as specified in the answer to the problem. (Most GUIs should also let you enter alternate variations if necessary.)

4) Enter the game data for the game (players' names, event, site, date, etc.) Actually, I usually just enter question marks for most of the game data, since the game is just a tactics problem. The only game data that you need to get right is to specify "no result", and that Termination is set to "unterminated".

5) Save the "Game" to a PGN file of your choosing.

6) Repeat Steps 1-5 for the next problem. You'll normally want to keep saving the "Games" to the same PGN file.

For the example you gave, the PGN entry might be as follows (with an extra variatiion thrown in):

[Event "Pins"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "????.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "?"]
[Black "?"]
[Result "*"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "8/5k2/1b6/4R3/2P5/8/7K/8 b - - 0 1"]
[PlyCount "3"]

1... Bc7 2. Kh3 (2. c5 Bxe5+) 2... Bxe5 *

(Note that you can add descriptive information to some tags. In this case, I used the Event tag to tell me that the problem is a pin problem.)

Oops, I forgot a step in my previous post. (Step 4 added.)

YATT--Yet Another Tactics Trainer and Chess Position Trainer are two programs that can be used to drill tactical positions.

Chess Position Trainer you need a Phd to figure out how to use that thing.

I agree with that.

The main point of such a training is to collect many tactical patterns in a relativly short time. See the original post by IM David Pruess in the thread http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-advice-most-chess-players-dont-like-to-hear?page=2

Dan Heisman refers to that post.

I have also made some progress with that. But i should have continued over summer. Afer doing 2 steps forward i've gone one step back by doing too less.

I don't really see the purpose of speed training. Studying tactics, yes, but, in my opinion, analysis is far more important than speed.

Dan Heisman says jump out of the window.

The whole idea of speed training is that pattern recognition of easy tactics replaces the need to calculate for these easy positions. However, for harder positions that you haven't burned into your neurons, you'll still need to do old-fashioned calculation. So, in effect, pattern recognition is a shortcut so that you don't have to calculate everything, every time.

If my explanation was as clear as mud, maybe Dan's Novice Nook #4 is a little clearer:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131006093112/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman04.pdf

Sure, that's how you do it in Arena, but I wanted to stay generic in case he uses a different GUI.

You jump

I enjoy solving tactical chess problems.