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 New feature for tactics practice.easier way to switch from one to the next and for Gameknot to record your second attempt at the tactic. I'm not sure how this would work with regards to your tactics rating, but going over previously attempted tactics is a good way to improve/assess your own improvement - so it would be nice if this is better supported. Good idea/ bad idea? Thoughts? |
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baronderkilt 07-Sep-11, 14:42 |
Good Idea, imo ... I agree with you whole-heartedly about better means for selecting, skipping, or such. There are times I find a Tactics Problem that just does Not Interest me in the least. But the only choice now seems to be to slog on thru it under the duress of not wishing to; or else take a guess and probably get it wrong, just to make it Go Away. So it would be great if we could at least have a Skip Problem option, and have it put to a reserve of those we've skipped. Personally I'd never want to go back to such. But there may well be those who simply wish to tackle it later when they know more, if they feel its too difficult at present; or simply not related at all to the type of tactics they wish to study at that time. (EG's Open h-file attacks, or sacrificial, or quiet key moves, stock attacks, whatever) Would be very nice too, if there were some manner to have a bit more choice in selecting to start with. As far as redoing of one that has been missed. Wouldnt it be nice if those automatically (or by chosing to do it, either) went to a collection of all the ones missed, so they could be tried at some later time if desired to do that rather than immediately. I believe now, when we do make one miss on a tactic problem, that you can still solve it then and get part credit. (yes/no?) I think that is what I am seeing. ( I usually do them in a two tier method that I make my immediate reaction move first. If wrong, then actually do the work of using the analyze board. So I think i am seeing rating increase for the second attempts, but dont know how much more or less it might be. Perhaps it says[?] and I just havent really cared to figure out the rating part. My Not being even close to any contention for a perfect record or a top solver spot ... this is not a prime consideration ) |
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improving the Chess Tactics feature Another help would be this: if the tactics problem would preserve -- at least while we are solving the problem -- our solution in the analysis mode. That would save a lot of time now spent on copying down the solution arrived at during analysis so as to play out the same moves in the solution mode. Which ends up making the time-to-solve comparison worthless. |
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baronderkilt 07-Sep-11, 16:31 |
shamash ... yes This once caused me to make the "second move" of a combination first, and Miss from that. Now I know better, of course. But still it is an inconvenience. Therefore I was wishing it would keep my place on the Solution Board and only start me over if I clicked someplace to tell it to begin again ... as is not possible now. But your idea makes that unneeded, since it is very convenient to always start on the Analysis Board. [Or start there if my "reaction move" I usually try first, is wrong. As mine often is. But that is important for me to know, in order to hone my tactical reaction for blitz play.] One thing they would have to watch out about would be that if my analysis was Wrong, I would only want it to count the "first" wrong move, since of course the entire Variation would likely be wrong if one move it. So I would not want it to say I Missed Two Times and do not get my second try then. But I think they could solve that matter ? |
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baronderkilt 07-Sep-11, 16:34 |
Word correction to above ... Change to: ["first" wrong move, since of course the entire Variation would likely be wrong if one move IS.] |
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perdurabo 08-Sep-11, 07:55 |
It would be nice, if the tactical exercises could have tags, showing which motif(s) they have. This should be shown only after they have been solved of course. This would be extremely helpful, because it shows where ones strength and weaknesses are. For example I often miss x-ray-motifs but do quite well with trapping pieces, exploiting pins, etc. Perhaps the GK site could then even give us more of the tactical exercises we are weak at and less of the ones that we are already good at. Of course before solving the exercise we should never know what motif(s) are involved. Just like in a real game we don't know either what is in the position, before we have found it. |
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