Phase 3 complete!
It's late. Too late. A long day at work (6 hour surgical procedure on a rat's brain among other things). Here I am sitting at lab waiting for Mr Rat to wake up from anesthesia, and I completed 301 tactical problems on my eighth circle in Phase 3 of Chess Tactics for Beginners. Phase 3 (out of five total) is done!Strangely, I needed fewer circles on this Phase before I was solving the problems 'by hand' rather than by thinking about them. Perhaps I am learning to learn tactics?
I can't wait to start Phase 4: it will be nice to see some new problems. Phase 3 was pretty tricky (for those who've done CT-Art, Phase 3 of CTB is about equivalent to level 10 of CT-Art, though a wee bit easier). I predict 83 percent correct in my first circle of Phase 4.
The above Escher piece is called 'Spirals or Circles?'. Which do you think it depicts?
| # Circles | Percent Correct | |
| Problem Set 1 | 14 | 98-99-100-100-100-100-100 100-100-100-99-100-99-98 |
| Problem Set 2 | 15 | 90-93-96-99-99-99-99-99 99-99-99-99-99-99-100 |
| Problem Set 3 | 8 | 85-93-97-99-99-99-99-100 |
| Problem Set 4 | 0 | |
| Problem Set 5 | 0 |
NOTE: Circles undertaken with CTB.
posted by Blue Devil Knight at 3/22/2007 03:28:00 AM
8 Comments:
go to sleep you idiot
Keep up the good work!
Rat brain surgery? What do you do for a living?
Rocky: I'm a neuroscientist (I study the rat nervous system).
anonymous: thanks for spreading your unique brand of inter-love. I'll be sure, when it is you in the pentobarbitol slumber, to not stay up late to make sure you don't have complications.
Heh, did you ever have a chance to read through my Come from behind victory analysis post on my blog? I'd be interested in your feedback along with some of the other knights.
greetings... too late in the wee hours for meaningful converstion or comment, just: hello, and, as always, bravo. dk
I think it depicts . . . a migraine!
I imagine after your circles you will become less timid. You will have the advantage of knowing that you win material when you execute a combination rather than base it on intuition (should read...hope) like I often do. perhaps you should look to force yourself to sack some pieces unsoundly and see if you can get yourself out of a jam. Or at least to explore lines that you see potential and cannot calculate fully. After all its just ratings and can be gained back quickly. It be interesting to determine if I lose more games to over agressiveness than you lose to passiveness. I have got tired of chess tactics for beginners and figure I will take another run at CT-art
Level 4 of CTB is definitely a step harder than Level 3. 3-5 move problems are the norm, whereas in Level 3 it was almost all two move problems.
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