Chess Tactics Server: How Accurate?
Well,I finally got hooked on it tonight. I played 26 problems while running rats at lab. You guys aren't kidding when you say it is addictive. My rating there is 1062 (I purposely stopped after a success so it is inflated :) ). My moniker there is BlueDevil.
I was wondering how accurate the Knights think the solutions are. Has anyone found any solutions that are wrong? UPDATE: In the comments, Mousetrapper pointed out this growing list of potentially problematic problems at CTS.
UPDATE: I just noticed that, with a rating of 1062, I have the honor of being in the bottom ten ranked active tacticians at Chess Tactics Server!
I was wondering how accurate the Knights think the solutions are. Has anyone found any solutions that are wrong? UPDATE: In the comments, Mousetrapper pointed out this growing list of potentially problematic problems at CTS.
UPDATE: I just noticed that, with a rating of 1062, I have the honor of being in the bottom ten ranked active tacticians at Chess Tactics Server!
posted by Blue Devil Knight at 8/17/2005 11:26:00 PM
8 Comments:
while running rats at lab
Is that an English saying I don't know (like smelling a rat) or what the heck where you doing?
He's teaching animals to play chess! ;-)
>while running rats in lab
I think bluedevil is a scientist. And this is what scientists do, run rats in lab while fiddling with chess-related stuffs. Personally, i'm not much into playing chess while subjecting various small rodents to tort.. er.. experiments, but hey, to each his own.. =>
I've been checking the murky problems that I don't understand with Fritz and yes, I've come across some faulty ones. However, usually the fault is in me. I'd estimate that only 1/1000 might have a stronger solution. What has been common to all the problems with mistakes is that their ratings have been over 1800, i.e. people play very seldom the "right" line.
- bahus
Yes 'running rats' usually means 'training rats in a Skinner box'. Sometimes it means 'recording from their brains while they run around in the Skinner box.' Sometimes it means, 'Fiddling away doing nothing on the internet for an hour while I should be working.' Here is the site of the lab in which I am a post-doc.
Training rats? I have allready problems to train myself. Are there techniques to train that are usable for me?
Yes, some CTS problems are flawed. Comments are here.
I was wondering whether you had the time to play Chess at http://www.redhotpawn.com/
It's free.
I desperately need some practice. In case you can, my UserId is IndianGuru.
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