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Subject: Re: Software to improve tactics

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 06:09:59 03/21/01

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On March 21, 2001 at 07:28:08, Scott Woods wrote:

>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
>)

I'll have to look for that.  I used to go through games by famous players and
try to guess the next move, but it was a pretty fast thing, I never studied the
situations all that long.

Pete



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