i do the tactics trainer when i have a numb bumcheek quite often.
Tactics Trainer and a headache...
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DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
i do the tactics trainer when i have a numb bumcheek quite often.
I guess that's better than butt calluses...
Aug 24, 2012
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I sometimes do it when I am tired, but can't resist. This way my score keeps on getting up and down.
yah, it wakes up eventually, usually it's the right cheek and it makes my right leg go to sleep too.
i've found i'm not great at tactics trainer if i try it late at night, when not feeling well, like a headache or anything like that.
if i can give it 100% concentration, i'm usually happy with how i do, otherwise i get frustrated with it (if any way below par at all).
I have the same experience as Bartleby 73, build up to 1300 plus, carry on when tired go down to 1200! why can I not quit while ahead? and continue when fresh?
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
yah, it wakes up eventually, usually it's the right cheek and it makes my right leg go to sleep too.
i've found i'm not great at tactics trainer if i try it late at night, when not feeling well, like a headache or anything like that.
if i can give it 100% concentration, i'm usually happy with how i do, otherwise i get frustrated with it (if any way below par at all).
If possible, don't leave your wallet in your back pocket for prolonged periods of time while sitting. It can mess up your spinal alignment and cause problems with your sacroiliac joint and sciatic nerve.
CB-39 wrote:
I have the same experience as Bartleby 73, build up to 1300 plus, carry on when tired go down to 1200! why can I not quit while ahead? and continue when fresh?
My two biggest rises and falls have been from 1603 to 1275 and 1602 to 1414...
nameno1had wrote:
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
yah, it wakes up eventually, usually it's the right cheek and it makes my right leg go to sleep too.
i've found i'm not great at tactics trainer if i try it late at night, when not feeling well, like a headache or anything like that.
if i can give it 100% concentration, i'm usually happy with how i do, otherwise i get frustrated with it (if any way below par at all).
If possible, don't leave your wallet in your back pocket for prolonged periods of time while sitting. It can mess up your spinal alignment and cause problems with your sacroiliac joint and sciatic nerve.
naw man, you assume stuff.
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
nameno1had wrote:
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
yah, it wakes up eventually, usually it's the right cheek and it makes my right leg go to sleep too.
i've found i'm not great at tactics trainer if i try it late at night, when not feeling well, like a headache or anything like that.
if i can give it 100% concentration, i'm usually happy with how i do, otherwise i get frustrated with it (if any way below par at all).
If possible, don't leave your wallet in your back pocket for prolonged periods of time while sitting. It can mess up your spinal alignment and cause problems with your sacroiliac joint and sciatic nerve.
naw man, you assume stuff.
There is a big difference between me considering the possibilities and you assuming that I was deciding that I know particular facts without evidence...
I was trying to be helpful. I have seen people have that problem, especially professional drivers.
Shadowknight911 wrote:
I was on a roll for quite a while, went from 2600 to 3000 in like 2 weeks. After I complained last week that I thought that the 2900 tactics were just as easy as the 2000 tactics, it seemed like someone at chess.com saw that and decided to press the "super hard" button. Now for the past week I've hit a wall at the 3000-level tactics. Now these tactics are really giving me a headache...
I would love to see a 3000 level tactic, just to see the difference between them a 1600 hundred level puzzle.
nameno1had wrote:
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
nameno1had wrote:
DonJuan_DeMarco wrote:
yah, it wakes up eventually, usually it's the right cheek and it makes my right leg go to sleep too.
i've found i'm not great at tactics trainer if i try it late at night, when not feeling well, like a headache or anything like that.
if i can give it 100% concentration, i'm usually happy with how i do, otherwise i get frustrated with it (if any way below par at all).
If possible, don't leave your wallet in your back pocket for prolonged periods of time while sitting. It can mess up your spinal alignment and cause problems with your sacroiliac joint and sciatic nerve.
naw man, you assume stuff.
There is a big difference between me considering the possibilities and you assuming that I was deciding that I know particular facts without evidence...
I was trying to be helpful. I have seen people have that problem, especially professional drivers.
naw man, that's not why my bumcheek went to sleep either. looks like a completely different topic too!
Shadowknight911 wrote:
I was on a roll for quite a while, went from 2600 to 3000 in like 2 weeks. After I complained last week that I thought that the 2900 tactics were just as easy as the 2000 tactics, it seemed like someone at chess.com saw that and decided to press the "super hard" button. Now for the past week I've hit a wall at the 3000-level tactics. Now these tactics are really giving me a headache...
BTW, I think the trainer is programmed to intentionally attack your weaknesses and previous failures. I will sometimes rise really high(by my standards..lol) and it will seem relatively easy.
This seems due to the puzzles being what I prefer and what I tend to be better at. Suddenly it will do things I am not as good at, on top of showing puzzles I have failed before. I have noticed a tendency for me to repeat the same mistakes, even when I have tried to make sure I figure out how to do the puzzles correctly, when I didn't get them right on the first try, so hopefully I won't fail at this later in another attempt or a game.
It is as if the designers understand chess thinking well enough to see patterns to peoples thinking compacity and somehow incorporating it into the adaptive part of its choice for the next puzzle.
Shadowknight911 wrote:
nameno1had wrote:
Shadowknight911 wrote:
I was on a roll for quite a while, went from 2600 to 3000 in like 2 weeks. After I complained last week that I thought that the 2900 tactics were just as easy as the 2000 tactics, it seemed like someone at chess.com saw that and decided to press the "super hard" button. Now for the past week I've hit a wall at the 3000-level tactics. Now these tactics are really giving me a headache...
I would love to see a 3000 level tactic, just to see the difference between them a 1600 hundred level puzzle.
here's one I did today and passed, currently rated at 2907. This one too me is worth a 2900 rating, compared to many of the ones I was doing recently.
http://www.chess.com/tactics/server?id=28185
It only took me 4 tries...lol
Is it possible at my lowly rating to have the opportunity to try much harder puzzles for rating?
Oddly enough, I am better at 7 move checkmates, than certain puzzles that contain several different elements to consider, with perhaps more than one playable line as a result of a few different choices. In fact there are several puzzles at around 1500 that have taken me more attempts than that one.
Does anyone besides me, try the tactics trainer while they have a headache, because they are so addicted to it and then do terribly?
I resent the fact I feel like I can't say no. Maybe do it will help me to finish OTB games that I develope a headache during.