Originally posted by ivan2908One. You're rated against the clock - if you take an hour to correctly solve, your rating goes down.
How many tries do you have? Did you notice raise in your playing strength after working on CTS?
It's useful because it's largely fairly simple tactics which are also either: unusual in theme, - or - in messy positions, where seeing the simple stuff is quite hard. That also means, it's not so good for thematic, stereotypical tactics.
Originally posted by TommyCyou have solved one problem there??
One. You're rated against the clock - if you take an hour to correctly solve, your rating goes down.
It's useful because it's largely fairly simple tactics which are also either: unusual in theme, - or - in messy positions, where seeing the simple stuff is quite hard. That also means, it's not so good for thematic, stereotypical tactics.