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| Posted by sough mailcafe.net 1/13/2006 12:45:22 play online chess |  Subject: Tactics Collections and GUIsMessage: |
| Posted by bucklehead mailcafe.net 1/13/2006 14:20:00 play online chess | Humph. Message: This site -> dejascacchi.altervista.org has links to .pdf files for 3000+ FREE tactics problems and 3000+ FREE "best move" problems. One of the nice things about these sets is that, in the vast majority of cases, they have been taken from actual OTB games instead of being constructed around a theme. If you want the tactical problems in PGN format, you can download them directly from this link -> www.cmpgo.de . You should be able to feed these directly into Fritz and get moving. In the alternative, you can go here -> www.cmpgo.de and download a program that (while primarily designed to access a German chess server) has these tactical exercises built directly in. I've been working through the tactical problems for the past few weeks, and have found them extremely valuable. |
| Posted by basbos mailcafe.net 1/13/2006 14:53:14 play online chess | CTS Message: "Currently 23,803 tactical chess problems with a degree of difficulty ranging from trivial to ambitious are provided to be solved against the clock. Your tactical performance will be measured by the Glicko rating system. The problems are rated too. You can sign in completely anonymous as guest to get familiar with the chess board interface, browse some problems or just look around. If you managed to slove the problem in three SECONDS your rating will increase , and within 10 sec will increase also but not the same as 3 sec.Anyhow you can examine all prolems as a guest. If interested, you'll just need a valid email address to register and join our community. " The team work there provide a very good statistical studies about the problems and the players , and I think that the high rated problems there worth a look. This is a link for the site: -> chess.emrald.net |
| Posted by i_play_slowly mailcafe.net 1/13/2006 19:22:31 play online chess | The Chess Tactics Server rules! Message: * Not for addictive personalities! |
| Posted by naamloos mailcafe.net 1/14/2006 06:15:38 play online chess | Chess tactics server Message: |
| Posted by sough mailcafe.net 1/16/2006 00:14:54 play online chess | Message: I tried the cts server but like naamloos I find the time much too fast, I can't even take in the position before I miss the problem. Can anyone give a quick explanation of how to feed pgn's into chessbase programs? Thanks! |
| Posted by brilliance mailcafe.net 1/16/2006 01:15:23 play online chess | Message: Something for the addictive personality? More something if you want higher blood-pressure. |
| Posted by brilliance mailcafe.net 1/16/2006 01:37:30 play online chess | lool Message: |
| Posted by basbos mailcafe.net 1/16/2006 04:11:54 play online chess | CTS Message: |
| Posted by mfeeney93 mailcafe.net 1/17/2006 09:54:10 play online chess | Predator at the Chessboard Message: -> www.chesstactics.org I've not yet read the site, so no opinion on its worth. |
| Posted by happinessisawarmgun mailcafe.net 1/17/2006 13:10:50 play online chess | check this Message: |
| Posted by yanm mailcafe.net 1/19/2006 07:43:01 play online chess | question Message: --yanm |
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