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isomorphism
30-Apr-12, 22:26

Chess Tactics Rating for a specific player
I wonder if it is possible to know the tactics rating of a specific player here in GK.
baronderkilt
01-May-12, 01:32

YOU HAVE BEEN HEARD ~!
My tactics rating is 1858 . . . What is your Next Wish ?
}8-)
baronderkilt
01-May-12, 01:40

Okay, okay . . .
You can also get your own tactics rating here: gameknot.com
that is gameknot.com/chess-tactics.pl

Where I understand the pl at the end to refer to yourself, aka Player. What I don't know is how to find the Input Value, eg 1858 for me, which appears on that page as the rating in the little pop-up box. Tho I'm sure it can be done. So I hope someone Will tell us both, since I'm sure someone Can.

Or an easier way?
isomorphism
03-May-12, 20:56

Suggestion
I believe there is no easy way to retrieve the tactics rating for certain player except manually looking up the long tables of all the tacticians.

If GameKnot admins see this thread, I suggest that adding the tactics rating for the player in their profile and hence making it accessible for opponents would be a good feature.
Thanks.
shamash
03-May-12, 21:13

do you want to play poker? Or solitaire?
chess is a game-- and a game involves two people.
solving a tactical puzzle is solving a puzzle --
a solitary analytical exercise without the spirit of fight or risk or gamesmanship.
Chess is play, a game for two, an excursion into risk and venture, staking all on a dream and
skirting the danger of defeat by a person not a puzzle:
it is a contest of ideas, a battle of strategies,
it celebrates investing in a position, deploying pieces like artillery weapons in war or assets in
finance, chess rewards the tangibilization of an abstraction:
of peering into the future and transforming one advantage into another,
playing for that future you envision, fighting for the initiative so as to obtain that promise
--yes, chess the game is both promise and power,
so as to make your
dreams real, inspiring your moves with hope, with breakthrough ideas one by one by one;
it make the heart race, it gladdens the brain, it makes the spirit soar --!
but --

solving puzzles is analysis, a loner activity for one,
I spit on that,
solving tactical puzzles has as much to do with sport as working out the artifical word -
crossings in a crossword puzzle.
but chess -- the game -- the Struggle, as Lasker called it-- is Life.
isomorphism
03-May-12, 21:40

Ok, but...
Your attempt to explain the differences between a chess game and a puzzle is ok. We know the differences more or less. But I do not see how is this related to my suggestion.