Tactical groupings - Chess Forums - Page 2

kleelof · 2015-03-29T21:24:14-07:00

Okie. So I've decided to up my tactics training. From none to some. I do my training on chesstempo. Anyone who has used this site knows that there are many options including building your own sets of tacitcal motifs. For the last week, I've just had it on random. This is fine, and I'm

kleelof

Mar 30, 2015

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#21

Yeah, it is a good site. I may add endgame puzzles later on.

Chicken_Monster

Mar 30, 2015

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kleelof wrote:

KM101 wrote:

Anastasia's, Anderssen's, Arabian, back-rank, Blackburne's, Boden's, Cozio's, Damiano's, Greco's, Lolli's, Max Lange's, Morphy's, Opera, Pillsbury, Reti's, epaulette, and smothered. You can also practice normal checkmating patterns, and checkmating in the middlegame. You can try splitting them into checkmate in one, two, three, etc.

Thanks. Unfortunately they don't have mates in 1, 2 3 as motifs. I did want to get something like this though.

Actually, you CAN set it up like that. A professional chess coach did it for me. I don't know how to do it or I would tell you.

kleelof

Mar 30, 2015

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Chicken_Monster wrote:

kleelof wrote:

KM101 wrote:

Anastasia's, Anderssen's, Arabian, back-rank, Blackburne's, Boden's, Cozio's, Damiano's, Greco's, Lolli's, Max Lange's, Morphy's, Opera, Pillsbury, Reti's, epaulette, and smothered. You can also practice normal checkmating patterns, and checkmating in the middlegame. You can try splitting them into checkmate in one, two, three, etc.

Thanks. Unfortunately they don't have mates in 1, 2 3 as motifs. I did want to get something like this though.

Actually, you CAN set it up like that. A professional chess coach did it for me. I don't know how to do it or I would tell you.

You tease.

Chicken_Monster

Mar 30, 2015

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haha not teasing. he set it up for me. he noticed i was missing mate-in-ones. he set it up for mate in ones. (yes, i suck)

kleelof

Mar 30, 2015

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Oh, you know, I think there is a way.

When you select games for a set, you can tell it the moves range. So if you select a mating motif , and tell it 1, 2 or 3 moves, then that is what you will get.

kleelof

Mar 30, 2015

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kleelof wrote:

Oh, you know, I think there is a way.

When you select games for a set, you can tell it the moves range. So if you select a mating motif , and tell it 1, 2 or 3 moves, then that is what you will get.

I just checked, this is the way to get mates in 1, 2, 3,.......

kleelof

Mar 30, 2015

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kleelof wrote:

Oh, you know, I think there is a way.

When you select games for a set, you can tell it the moves range. So if you select a mating motif , and tell it 1, 2 or 3 moves, then that is what you will get.

I just checked, this is the way to get mates in 1, 2, 3,.......

Thanks Lee.

kleelof

Mar 30, 2015

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kleelof wrote:

Oh, you know, I think there is a way.

When you select games for a set, you can tell it the moves range. So if you select a mating motif , and tell it 1, 2 or 3 moves, then that is what you will get.

I just checked, this is the way to get mates in 1, 2, 3,.......

Thanks Lee.

No prob.

Chicken_Monster

Mar 30, 2015

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#29

He did it. I have no idea how.

MuhammadAreez10

Mar 30, 2015

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#30

You!

kleelof

Apr 2, 2015

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Thanks for the grouping suggestions Leiph.

I ended up making 12 sets. 9 From the motifs above and 3 more that cover all the mating motifs they have on the site.

For 4 days now I have been doing 1 or 2 sets a day, 30 problems per set.

Yesterday I played some blitz games and could see myself looking for a much different set of possible tactic than before. I ended up making some great (by blitz 1200 standards ) mating nets and attacks.

I think this grouped motif might be the key.

I've tried doing tactics before, but, when they were random, I just went from one idea to another rather than drilling on one or 2 specific motifs. I think this was not allowing the motif to assert itself in my mind to a useful extent.

Anyway, I know I'm not telling you guys anything new about the benefits of doing tactical problems. I'm just really happy that I found a way to do them that keeps me interested and seems to be working.

Crazy_Assassin

Apr 22, 2015

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#32

Kleelof you can try out the endgame at Chesstempo.. they offer only 2 PER DAY.. and two is not bad to start with.

kleelof

Apr 22, 2015

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Thanks Crazy. I know I should do more end game practice. But my time is so limited. I was shooting for 30 tactics puzzles a day and am often taking 2 days to get through them.

Crazy_Assassin

Apr 22, 2015

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15 Tactics a day is good.. solve those 15 with full honesty and concentration.. it will be really more powerful than solving 100 with every time failing to find the exact move due to not concentrating.