2Q1C wrote:
I have a colleague who has a PHD in microbiology on a study of potatoes.
Didn't you claim you are 15 in another thread?
does the tactics trainer on chess.com actually help?
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Feb 10, 2017
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#103
2Q1C wrote:
In music? Choose a real profession please.
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Profession - any vocation or business
Vocation - a strong impulse or inclination to follow a particular activity or career
Therefore, being a musician is by definition, a real profession!
(I know you hate having things spelled out for you in this way, but your frequent comments have given me a pretty good idea of the extent of your intellect, and I have come to realize you need it.)
I think studying potatoes is a laudable objective... Certainly not worse than studying a board game.
Feb 10, 2017
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#105
2Q1C wrote:
16 but I have a job. The person in question is a director in an engineering firm. She spent 10 years of her life in uni and now does something completely different to what she studied, go figure.
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Working the streets in the Castro is not a real profession!
Feb 10, 2017
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#106
2Q1C wrote:
Well she works with me and she's not my boss so what would you call her?
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A figment of your imagination.
Feb 10, 2017
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#108
2Q1C wrote:
Kind of like your chess rating.
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No, my chess rating is not a figment of your imagination!
Feb 10, 2017
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#109
2Q1C wrote:
This thread is about chess tactics. Can you please stop trying to derail it.
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You mean like name calling and heckling people about their profession?
2Q1C wrote:
This thread is about chess tactics. Can you please stop trying to derail it.
Ok.......... Wuehler's comments were great and his approach to learning tactics made complete sense to me. In order to learn something, you first need to learn how to learn.
We say something very similar in the music world, " The best teachers, teach their students how to teach themselves"
You don't earn any money and after you have done Tactics Trainer you are several minutes closer to the grave! Give it up!
Feb 10, 2017
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#112
Cavatine wrote:
You don't earn any money and after you have done Tactics Trainer you are several minutes closer to the grave! Give it up!
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Amen.
Feb 10, 2017
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#113
Jenium wrote:
IpswichMatt wrote:
Interesting stuff Wuehler, thanks for posting
Thanks from me too.
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You're very welcome.
Feb 10, 2017
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#114
I don't think tactics trainer teaches tactics unless you figure out what the lesson is. To me tactics trainier is like starting in the middle/end game without knowing how I got there. I do a few puzzles a day. End game techniquies have been really interesting to me lately.
Does TT on chess.com help? No, not really.
If you want to improve your tactics, you should learn to understand them and I have not seen many good books around that help you. Doing TT blindly will get you so far but your improvement will be slow. Capablanca had one of the fastest eyes ever for tactics and yet when you read his books you get the impression he was very casual. That is because he understood the game including tactics so well. He had his own way of understanding the game, something he never really ever taught. One thing he did say was to develop your own understanding of the game rather than try to copy somebody else's. Whether that is good advice or not, it shows that he had his own system. Botvinnik marvelled at how fast Capablanca was to see tactics.
Feb 11, 2017
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Well, Capa refuted the first Marshall over the board.
That was amazing. Frank must have been devastated. It is no mean attack!
I don't think I said that. I think I said I wouldn't brag about having a PHD in something as frivolous as music. I have a colleague who has a PHD in microbiology on a study of potatoes. She doesn't go on about it.
Frivolous.....ehh.......Can you imagine a world without music?