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    23 Nov '08 18:14
    Perhaps I placed "child's disease" not clear enough. That little flaw of "mate in n" or "mate in n + 1" has been removed there for a long time already. But for CTS this really never has been an issue, I believe. [I have never encountered it]
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    23 Nov '08 18:292 edits
    Originally posted by heinzkat
    Perhaps I placed "child's disease" not clear enough. That little flaw of "mate in n" or "mate in n + 1" has been removed there for a long time already. But for CTS this really never has been an issue, I believe. [I have never encountered it]
    me too. in CTS, whenever I spot a materialistically (if that's a word) winning line, it usually becomes the correct one. In chesstempo however, I believe things are more realistic.



    in this position, I had calculated, even correctly, that 1.Reb7 wins a whole rook, and didn't bother to look for anything else, but actually it walks into a totally lost ending, and of course was rejected.
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    23 Nov '08 19:15
    Originally posted by diskamyl
    me too. in CTS, whenever I spot a materialistically (if that's a word) winning line, it usually becomes the correct one. In chesstempo however, I believe things are more realistic.

    [fen]1R3rk1/P3Rb2/8/3p2pp/r1pB1p2/5P1P/3b2P1/7K w - - 0 0[/fen]

    in this position, I had calculated, even correctly, that 1.Reb7 wins a whole rook, and didn't bother to loo ...[text shortened]... r anything else, but actually it walks into a totally lost ending, and of course was rejected.
    good puzzle, didn't thought of it.

    oh and btw, has anyone lately having trouble improving their rating lately? because I have been oscillating around 1570-1580 on CTS for the past month!
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    23 Nov '08 19:231 edit
    Originally posted by EmLasker
    good puzzle, didn't thought of it.

    oh and btw, has anyone lately having trouble improving their rating lately? because I have been oscillating around 1570-1580 on CTS for the past month!
    have you found the winning line?

    I did have serious problems improving my rating there. I have been oscillating around 1300-1400 for the past year! On chesstempo standard though, it doesn't seem to have an end (yet).
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    25 Nov '08 03:28
    Originally posted by diskamyl
    have you found the winning line?

    I did have serious problems improving my rating there. I have been oscillating around 1300-1400 for the past year! On chesstempo standard though, it doesn't seem to have an end (yet).
    white rook takes the black rook duh!
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    25 Nov '08 13:05
    Originally posted by EmLasker
    white rook takes the black rook duh!
    no.
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    25 Nov '08 17:14
    Originally posted by diskamyl
    no.
    white rook takes black bishop
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    25 Nov '08 22:02
    Originally posted by EmLasker
    white rook takes black bishop
    lol, that random capturing stuff works in CTS, doesn't it?

    no. 🙂
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    I'd say there's virtually no correlation. On CTS, I try to solve every problem correctly, even if it takes minutes. I believe that I learn the tactics better that way. My CTS rating is in the low 1100s and rarely gets as high as the low 1200s. My accuracy is currently 89.8%. My RHP rating is in the low 1600s, based on a fairly small number of games.
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    Good stuff!

    http://chess.emrald.net/ctsTacCountries.php?ISO=NL

    Took me only 40,366 tries 😲
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    27 Nov '08 19:21
    Originally posted by heinzkat
    Good stuff!

    http://chess.emrald.net/ctsTacCountries.php?ISO=NL

    Took me only 40,366 tries 😲
    I have some questions then.
    how did you do that?
    that, and the spectacular 99% trial rating. what's your secret?
    are you heavily underrated on RHP?
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    I think the "secret" is that you do not necessarily need to be a strong tactician nor strong player to be "good" at CTS. After ~10,000 tries I was just CTS~1800. After ~40,000 tries CTS~2050. So just a lot of tries.
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    02 Dec '08 13:29
    Originally posted by diskamyl
    I have some questions then.
    how did you do that?
    that, and the spectacular 99% trial rating. what's your secret?
    are you heavily underrated on RHP?
    He has about 2000 rating in both RHP and CTS. How could he be heavily underrated?
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    Originally posted by Jusuh
    He has about 2000 rating in both RHP and CTS. How could he be heavily underrated?
    having a 2000+ rating in CTS is one serious task. if you check out the top rankings, http://chess.emrald.net/ctsActTact.php, there are 4 titled players there, 2 IMs and 2 GMs who play very actively, and the four have an average rating of 2056, only six points lower than heinzkat.

    I think he could be considered as a player with the tactical ability of at least a master, altough he doesn't seem to think that way.

    edit: well maybe not "tactical ability" as a whole (with calculative skills etc), but I think it would be safe to say "tactical pattern recognition", which doesn't make it any less important.
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    03 Dec '08 13:511 edit
    Originally posted by diskamyl
    having a 2000+ rating in CTS is one serious task. if you check out the top rankings, http://chess.emrald.net/ctsActTact.php, there are 4 titled players there, 2 IMs and 2 GMs who play very actively, and the four have an average rating of 2056, only six points lower than heinzkat.

    I think he could be considered as a player with the tactical ability of at d be safe to say "tactical pattern recognition", which doesn't make it any less important.
    Well yeah, I actually know pretty well that CTS ratings are highly deflated, maybe even hundreds of points compared to OTB or unofficial RHP ratings. Personally I have really hard time re-passing 1800 CTS barrier after the long break from problem solving.

    But that said, the world is full of titled players, even GMs, who arent that good at insta-tactics solving (like CTS). Many IMs and GMs have hard time winning bullet-oriented club players in bullet games, due the fact that bullet chess has considerably little to do with normal chess. Same applies to CTS, which is kind of bullet-form of problem solving.
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