tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313128767970412053.post7200743414745966529..comments2024-01-29T11:47:07.271-08:00Comments on The Endgame Tactician: Tactical Magiclikesforestshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12363355892919115087noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313128767970412053.post-31695180690359793372007-05-26T13:52:00.000-07:002007-05-26T13:52:00.000-07:00thank you. i couldnt verbalize this, but you skil...thank you. <BR/><BR/>i couldnt verbalize this, but you skillfull exposition helps, and while PCT sounds wonderful, with CTS, CTA3, 1001*2 (see my post today) + 1000, alburt, dvoretskys endgame manual including cbase version, annotations, and endgame strategy AND secrets of pawn endings, what i have seems sufficient, and PCT adds one element too many, for now.<BR/><BR/>thank you!<BR/><BR/>dktransformationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10834788878068428887noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313128767970412053.post-67578267993061828862007-05-19T15:56:00.000-07:002007-05-19T15:56:00.000-07:00PCT is a simpler study option. It throws at you a ...PCT is a simpler study option. It throws at you a mix of calculation and pattern recognition problems and you need to solve within 30s to 3m depending on the problem.<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't say it's better than CTS plus CT-ART. I think the very short timers on CTS are conductive to testing if you know a pattern and the absence of timers on CT-ART is conductive to deep calculation.<BR/><BR/>However, PCT's "pause" button fits in well with my schedule. I have many small blocks of time, but I could be interrupted at any moment. That doesn't work well with CTS.<BR/><BR/>Also, sometimes a change is fun!<BR/><BR/>"what is your best run of successive tries of recent? forty?" <BR/><BR/>I'm only using CTS as a yardstick now to measure my progress. Most of my sessions are only 20-40 tries. I usually score 90% in my sessions. 150 @ 98.67?! That is an incredible score! :)<BR/><BR/>For strategy, I'm annotating my own games and similar ones from CB9. I'm also going through some games in Euwe's Master vs Amateur.<BR/><BR/>For endings, PCT's endings module focuses on pawn endings. I'm going through those for speed, and where I find gaps reviewing Dvoretsky and Chesslecture.com.<BR/><BR/>I'm taking a break from Minev. The strategy and tactics sections have already put my on good footing. If someone beats me in a rook ending, I'll probably resume that.likesforestshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12363355892919115087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313128767970412053.post-34890047028876299922007-05-19T10:46:00.000-07:002007-05-19T10:46:00.000-07:00hello likeforests. congratulations on your CTS, y...hello likeforests. congratulations on your CTS, yes ive noticed. what is your best run of successive tries of recent? forty? fifty? hundred+? or 3f/147s= 150 tries @ 98.0% etc? i just did a 2S/148s =150 @ 98.67% and somehow the mental juice kept flowing... 1/99=100 to start...<BR/><BR/>i am VVEERRYY, very, very eager to hear your take on PCT. <BR/><BR/>while for me my sincerest feeling is that i dont need another tool or practice or set of events (with already full house viz CTS, CTA-3 when i can bear it, ICC bullet and blitz, Y! blitz, chessBase9 and analysis of my own games, reading 1001 sacrifices and combinations, euwe-kramer middlegame volumes I & II), <BR/><BR/>if i were to add another element, PCT would be it, yet from all that i have read by our fellow bloggers, other than it is being more recommended all the time, still not COMPLETELY clear to me....<BR/><BR/>till next time, or sunday, <BR/><BR/>warmly, dktransformationhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10834788878068428887noreply@blogger.com