08 Aug 07
Originally posted by chessisvanityTrue that, my friend. I did that for a while, but the best option I found was CT-ART for my Pocket PC. It's portable, has many different ways to group the problems (difficulty, tactic, motif), and there's no more of that "hmm...which problem did I leave off on?" My Pocket PC is an old Dell Axim. No fancy phone or wireless capabilities, and I don't use it for anything but CT-ART and recording my games with CEBoard. Its really been a usefull tool for me.
i prefer books....its easy to jam a tactics book in my back pocket....carrying a lap top around kinda sucks.
08 Aug 07
Originally posted by buddy2It is true that many of the puzzles in CT-ART are mate, but many are not. I wouldn't discount it all as queen sacrifices, either. There are many themes and they may be just been in one that you didn't find benifitial.
i got disgusted with ct-arts after making my hundreth queen sac for mate. Usually at my club you win a pawn and grind it out to the end game. in that sense i think emrald.net is far superior.
emrald.net, also known as chess tactics server, is also a great resource. It is more geared towards speed chess, as they give you only 3 seconds to solve the thing. But it is great practice at seeing the simple (not always so simple for me) tactics.
The CT-ART has much more difficult puzzles, often requiring several minutes to solve. Many are unsolvable for me.