Grievances with Tactics Trainer

one of the limiting factors is that sometimes there are "in-between" moves that are "good", but not "best". but they may still be relevant and are intermediary threats that keep the original tactic in-tact and present, but are not directly related. i'm not sure if that makes sense to anyone but me :) but it's a real issue in generating tactics (which is done in an automated fashion from hundreds of thousands of chess.com games).

I believe that if you think you are not learning anything from tactic trainer, that is because you don't take the time to review why you got each problem wrong and just move on and hope to remember it next time. 

At that note, user additions to the analysis and source would be nice because sometimes stuff doesn't come up in the top 3 choices, so I go and analyze it with a chess engine. If I could then paste that into the analysis and source so that other people may have made the same mistake could see why that was wrong too.

 So does that mean that while I am doing some puzzles I might come across one of my own masterpieces?

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Now imagine someone who plays masterpieces in their games said that, and answer the question.

(If the puzzle came from one of my games it would give me an unfair advantage, would it not? )

It would be very cool if they were attributed.

your grievances with tactics trainer are a result of your lack of tactical ability which needs work. i dont mean to insult you as my own tactical ability needs work as does 99% of the people who play chess.

I have noticed it applies to my own play.  What are you going to do when you have 30 seconds on your clock in an OTB game.  Are you going to whine about not having enough time to look at the board?  Tactics trainer is teaching you to look for simple tactics (and more complex problems) in a short period of time.  If you do this, you will have time to concentrate on other lines.  Do the unrated problems.  You can take as much time as you want and you can concentrate on getting the pattern engrained in your memory.  Don't gripe about it.  If you don't like it, you don't have to use it.  But please do not complain when almost everybody thinks Tactics Trainer is beneficial.

My tactics trainer rating is above 2000. What's yours?

1. You are going to lose since the chances of finding some sort of tactic and then winning the game in thirty seconds is fairly low.

2. I do like tactics trainer, my complaint is that I don't think it teaches real tactics as well as it could.

It's hard to cheat TT.  So this is a good gauge of a person's tactical skills and general chess ability.  Much better than turn-based games where players cheat a lot.

like i said, i did not mean it to insult you as i can use plenty of work myself. my tactics trainer rating is 2339

If you have 5 second delay or increment, it is quite likely you could win a game if you see ideas quick enough.

A minor complaint about tactics trainer:

This is a quote from my tactics trainer page:

"49/93 Correct (50% accuracy) over 46 Minutes"

Now, if you asked some random person on the street to estimate the value of 49/93 as a percentage, 50% would be an acceptable answer. But on a chess site? That's just embarrassing!      

Not bad, though, when you consider that it's the only issue raised in the past four years.