Description of Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players
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Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players is based on a bestseller by the experienced coach Sergey Ivashchenko. It is a sequel to the popular program Chess Tactics for beginners. This program now ships with the new Peshk@ interface.
It is a Windows based chess tactics testing and training program intended for intermediate players. Among the topics there are: Mating combinations, Pinning combinations, Decoying, Blockade, Exchange, etc. The program is designed for chess players with the ELO level of 1600-2200 points.
The exercises are arranged in 19 sections according to their increasing difficulty. All the sections contain exercises for Practice and Test. After you have solved a problem, you are given a ELO rating. This rating is based on the difficulty of the problem, the time taken, and errors if any you made. Your original rating is adjusted up or down after each exercise.
The program includes positions from practical games, endgame studies as well as training examples.
Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players includes:
- The program includes more than 1,170 tactical problems classified according to topics and difficulty.
- Every position is included into all these four courses. Each course contains examples for Practice and Test.
- You have to find the most important moves. Once you're solving a problem and proposing a wrong move, the program helps you with various visual hints (such as arrows showing key lines of attack), and eventually shows the piece which is to move.
- The program's got a built-in playing engine Crafty which can be called upon to analyze the problem more thoroughly than the offered solution gives.
- You can also use your favorite external playing program.
- The program you see generates a student's ELO and statistics in easy-to-read bar graphs based on a student's success rate with the exercises, thus helping to keep track of one's progress.
- Multiple user profiles are possible with independent ratings and all other individual information.
- Statistics is stored and can be compared between different users.
- Board design - Simple, Wooden or Marble.
- There is also an option of printing either topics or positions:
- The program may be useful for both individual chess players and coaches.
The difference between Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players and Chess Tactics for beginners is the complexity level of exercises. Chess Tactics for beginners hardest exercises are easier than Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players simpliest ones.
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Customer Reviews of Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players
Dennis from Edmond Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players ReviewGreat product sharpens chess thinking
Art Cominio from Orlando Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players ReviewChess Tactics for Beginners, Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players, and CT-ART 3.0 are all fine programs despite the warts in their user interface. You get used to the lame GUI and figure out how use the software despite the almost complete lack of documentation. I would liken these programs to Chess Mentor, but at a fraction of the cost. It's a lot easier to solve the thousands of chess problems on the computer than by using a book and setting up the problems on a board. Avoid CT-ART 4.0 at all costs! If someone gives it to you, give it back! CT-ART 4.0 is just a new user interface for CT-ART 3.0 and the authors managed to screw up the GUI so badly that I rank it as unusable. They invented a new interface called Peshk@ that is part of their marketing strategy. The idea is OK but the implementation is atrocious. If I had written the Peshk@ interface I would hang my head in shame.
Mark from Boston Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players ReviewChess Tactics for intermediate players is a very well thought out program. Challenging, fun and gets you thinking about that 99 percent part of chess: Tactics! This program is so user friendly you can skip the directions after loading it. With 1100 problems you will be at it for days, weeks, months! Then you can redo them! The exam section is also very good. Get this program if you are the typical 1500-1800 player, you will not regret it!
Greg from Menasha Chess Tactics for Intermediate Players ReviewI know that there are Convekta loyalists out there just as there are those who prefer Chessbase's learning software. For me, Convekta's tactical software is easier to work with, if for no other reason than, once installed, the program keeps track of the exercises one has already completed. This is definitely true of this software, which provides a player of 1200-1800 strength a great many tactical exercises and themes within them. Some players prefer "mixed" selections of exercises, where you don't know from position to position which theme or idea is coming. Others, like myself, like to focus on one theme to pound the ideas into our failing memories. This is an outstanding piece of tactical software that I highly recommend.
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