Exercises answers? (Problems)

by Don Lester , Thursday, September 08, 2005, 00:42 (7163 days ago) @ Craig

I have experienced your frustration from time to time. I have even gone to the point of taking the position and putting it into a chess engine for analysis. Most of the time it shows why the decision is there, but on some occasions the chess engine can't figure out why it is a win either. Keep in mind though that some of the solutions result in a material advantage that you should be able to translate into a win, not necessarily a forced mate win at the time of the move.

I only find one or two a month that I don't understand the solution, but I can easily see how it would be frustrating if the bulk of the solutions were as complicated as the original puzzle. I think the real problem with this, beyond the frustration, is that you won't really be able to improve if you don't get to see a solution that you understand.

I still wish the solutions were available instantly when you get one wrong, but that request hasn't made it into production. Immediate feedback is more useful to me than reviewing them half an hour later.

? Im not sure if im missing a part of the web site but the answers to the
? tactical exercises appear to be very limited, sometimes only one move! for
? many of the problems I need a better answer, certainly more than one move.
? I have to admit that one move answers are not the norm, but what is
? normal in the answers is to stop after a few moves and say 1-0 without
? following on to show why. This is very annoying, especially if the final
? position is still complicated and has a few variations to work through to
? find the win. Sometimes I am sitting there wonderding how it is a win as
? if I now have a new problem to solve! These are things that I as an
? average players just can't see as well as the guys setting the problems.
? Anyone else find this?