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I wrote this as a project to help myself, but I'm sharing it in case anyone finds it useful.
Chess tempo shows your accuracy for each tactic type, but it only shows it over your entire history of using the site. So, it might say you have 58% accuracy with discovered attacks, which is useful to know, but I want to know this information for, e.g., the last 24 or 48 hours, which would be a lot more useful for me to see what I'm currently struggling with.
This script takes your history file (downloadable from your stats page) and shows accuracy for different tactics types over the time period you specify.
Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/pHMD0iZ.png
Github: https://github.com/sgriffin53/chesstempostats
See the github for instructions on how to run it. It doesn't require any external libraries and it should run on Windows and Linux (only tested on Windows).
Please let me know if you find this useful or if you have any feedback.
Mine includes:
- Fabiano Caruana's rook and bishop sacrifice against Ponomariov during the Dortmund Sparkassen tournament in 2014
- Levon Aronian's endgame tactic against Alexey Shirov during the Tal memorial (2006)
- Daniil Dubov's stalemate against Mamedyarov in the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour 2021
Mine includes:
- En passant in 2014
- Onpason (2006)
- Ompy somp in 2021
- Ompy somp (Again – sorry, I just really love ompy somp. It works so well for avoiding brick-related injuries.)
Has it ever occured to anyone when all of a sudden you start missing simple tactics like a hanging piece or getting your own piece trapped ? If so, how did you deal with them ?
Hey all, is there a database floating around anywhere that has single board states which represent themes/tactics?
Here's an example: I want this board state in FEN/PGN: Fork.jpg and a corresponding label to the tactic displayed, in this case Fork. Just one board state, not a puzzle involving multiple moves leading up to/surrounding this state.
I checked out the Lichess puzzle database and because it involves multiple moves to describe a given theme it doesn't work too well for the classification problem I'm trying to solve. I really just want individual boards labeled with corresponding tactics. Anyone have any resources I can check out?
Edit: Added a better example
Hi all! I wanna get my brother a book on chess this Christmas. Any recommendations would be super helpful as I'm not a big chess player myself but he said he'd be interested to learn more about e4 openings, middle game tactics, endgame tactics specifically, but anything else you think is a must-have book for chess players, please let me know, thanks!
basically im looking for a way to train to find the best move without knowing in which direction i should look. so for example in every chess tactic i have ever done i have always known the fact that there IS a tactic available and i just have to find it. but in a real game, i dont know that and sometimes a quiet positional move is in fact the best move.
any help is greatly appreciated.
Chess-related strategies and tactics
A criticism of having all puzzles being tactics is that you know that there will be a tactic going into it. If the best move was simply a developing move - or even taking a hanging piece - this would force the solver to first determine whether or not there is a tactic in the first place. That analytical ability might better carry over into actual gameplay. Would you play that feature?
I'm Rated 1800 and i want to have chess Tactics book to benefit me, any recommendations?
