Unfortunately, the site is currently subscription based, but at least it is moderately priced at ~$22.00 for the year. But this have given me the opportunity to discover yet another cool interactive chess web site, Chess Opening Explorer. I have been spending a lot of time as a couch potato recently thanks to some medical conditions. Overall, I still think that the site is pure genius.

Hopefully, this will come over time as well as the site grows in popularity. Therefore, it would be great if they could incorporate some kind of lag compensation into the ratings based upon the speed of your connection and browser. Secondly, I have found that I am able to easily jump about 20 rating points by using a direct internet feed, instead of wireless. There is no configurable setting to stop after a set number of problems, which makes it difficult to stop sometimes, as no one want to stop on a failure, which is the only option currently, unless, of course, you consider stopping after every success an option, but that seems to be a little too drastic for me. Two, slight drawbacks that I have noticed, however. That includes either by reading them in books, which hardly ever give enough feedback, online, or via software, where nothing has really grabbed my attention well enough for me to want to come back ritually, such as with the Chess Tactics Server.Īgain, kudos, to the site owners. Previously, I don't think that I would have ever done more that about 10 problems a day if I was lucky. I am up over 2,500 problems, which is over a hundred problems a day. I do not get a chance to play as many games as I would like, and I surely have never solved as many chess problems, as I have solved on this server in the past three weeks.

As they say, 'Tactics, Tactics, Tactics!'. I am still spending considerable too much time, on the Chess Tactics Server! Not sure, if this really helps my play at all, but hopefully it will improve my tactical vision. While not playing regularly at all for at least 2 months I have managed to climb back almost 200 rating points higher than I was in October time frame to match my all-time high on FICS of 1683! This is with about 7500 problems solved on CTS, and no other outside study.

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