recommended features for tatical exercises (General)

by Davar , Wednesday, May 25, 2005, 17:37 (7269 days ago)

I am using convekta's ct-art 3.0 with the 7 circle system to build my tactical strength. I love the fact that the Masters on this site also emphasize tactical development as primary focus for u2000 rated players and signed up for the program to see how they could complement my training.

Having a forum like this for members to interact is encouraging. I find the annotated games on the site very helpful. On the tactical exercises, would recommend adding more interactive features to make them as useful as the other parts of the site. For example, they can easily monitor which moves members made on specific puzzles and annotate reasons for failures of candidate moves to correct the wrong thought process that drives us towards these same blunders during our games. I have found that the annotated games by Tony were helpful. Only hope that the tactical exercises would improve on convekta's software designed by Master Blokh, and add clarity to mistakes.

Scoring system would be more helpful if it was consistent across all exercies and preferably aligned with elo or uscf rating levels. I want to strengthen the weak links in my learning chain. To help members understand their weak points (i.e. if my tactics are at 2000 level, but my strategy is at 1900, and my opening is at 1400 level, I would know where is the weak link to focus my training on.

Would also appreciate having past mistakes made available under "my need for improvement" section to help me review them often in order to plug the weaker holes specific to my pattern recognition problems.

Overall, the site has many fantastic features under various headings. I know there are bugs on the site (some of them major ones), but I do appreciate coaches with a heart to increase chess excellence in others with new ideas like the ones presented on this site.

Thanks.