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Subject: Re: Software to improve tactics

Author: Scott Woods

Date: 04:28:08 03/21/01

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On March 20, 2001 at 20:22:54, Pete Galati wrote:

>On March 20, 2001 at 18:21:39, Rich Van Gaasbeck wrote:
>
>>I'm looking for software to improve my tactical skill.  I was thinking
>>that it would be good to have a program that could generate random problems.
>>(or is it studies)?  I'm mostly interested in easier problems that will help
>>me "see" forks, skewers and pins faster, rather than a program that can generate
>>mate in 3's, etc.
>>
>>Another possibility would be software that finds positions that would qualify
>>as problems from a pgn database of real games.
>>
>>Anyone know of any such programs?
>>
>>Rich
>
>I'd suggest trying a demo of Chess Mentor http://www.chess.com/
>
>Lots of good lessons in there in various levels of skills.
>
>Pete

Fritz 6 also has a training tool in it's database. - ie try and guess the best
move to make.  ( based on real games and you can include your own games as well
)



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