Ideachess

Date	Player	Message
2012-09-08	Datr	SuperPAC: ELO Max Min already exists for tactical practice. Are you suggesting Mating Practices, which is currently Mate in 1, 2, 3 or 4 without ELO, has a max and min range also?
2012-09-08	SuperPAC	Also, the obvious request would be to implement a tagging system like the "other" chess site has, that defines common tactic types and allows users to tag problems according to tactic type. Recognizing tactics types can be a very helpful way for a player to organize and improve tactics thinking.
2012-09-08	SuperPAC	Another idea: allow users to choose a minimum and maximum ELO for practice problems.
2012-09-07	Datr	Zuril: Another thing CT does is provide the time, as well as the date, a comment is made.
2012-09-07	Datr	Yes, but some players will never get into the top 100. I think they should still know their position on the list, other wise it becomes elitist, which I don'y think is in the spirit if ideachess. The incentive for them would be to improve their grade and rise up the list. The RD restriction is fine because everyone can get on this list if the play enough.
2012-09-07	Zuril	Datr: it's an incentive to improve :-)
2012-09-07	Datr	Zuril: Just got into the top 100, I didn't like not being on the list!!
2012-09-07	Zuril	Datr: the scroll bar is displayed only if there are a lot of comments. It's not implemented in ELO mode, I will do it as soon as possible. Thank you for point out the tactics ranking and your suggestion for the fen in ELO mode!
2012-09-07	Datr	Zuril: Tactics Ranking is only showing the top 100 players with RD
2012-09-07	Datr	The scroll bar has appeared in some puzzles but not in all. Should this be happening?
2012-09-07	Datr	The FEN string is already in ELO mode when one presses the View Button, I think it would be nice for it to appear when one presses Solution, without having to go into View.
2012-09-07	SuperPAC	What about adding the FEN string in ELO mode?
2012-09-06	Zuril	Datr: it was easy to implement the scroll bar was difficult to have the idea :-)
2012-09-06	Datr	Zuril: The comment box and sliders appear to be working well. A good improvement.
2012-09-06	Datr	Repeating problems is Ok, but if they are repeated too soon then it could unrealistically inflate a player's grade, depending upon how good one's memory is. As I say, I sometimes fail problems that I have previously got correct, so I think it is ok to repeat all problems.

2012-09-06	Johangnorman	I believe the idea of repetition is important in training. I think a certain percentage (20 percent??) of the problems presented should be repeat ones. The repeat problems could of course mostly (or exclusively) come from the problems that were failed previously.
2012-09-06	Datr	Thanks for the FEN string. With regards to the Comments Box slider, in my perfect world the slider would show all the comments from the top to halfway down, then show all the comments again from halfway to the bottom. This would mean one could see the first comment immediately after the last one instead of having to slide all the way back, this is fine detail but would be great if possible.
2012-09-06	Zuril	By the way I've added the FEN string to the practice problems
2012-09-06	Zuril	Time ago I was using a chess engine internal to the applet but the performance was very poor so I've decided to not use it anymore in tactics problems. Now I think that the best way to test our ideas against a chess engine is to copy and paste the FEN position in our favorite external chess software.
2012-09-06	Zuril	Comments in an independent box is easy to do. It's more complicated to add the one move back button in the solution. I've put all in the to do list.
2012-09-06	SuperPAC	Zuril: The variation list is helpful, but it would also be great to be able to test the computer's response to tactical and mating problems. Like I said, many of the comments involve questions like "Why doesn't this work?" and it might be nice to allow players to test out their theories against the computer to see for themselves why their solution isn't good. Just a suggestion. By the way, thanks for an ingenious site!
2012-09-05	Datr	Another improvement would be to have the comments in an independent box. The idea is to be able to see the board at all times and see each comment next to the board, this isn't currently possible when there are a large number of comments, eg Check Mate Puzzle 1. Sliding the whole page puts the board out of view. It is important that the slider is able to view all the comments, keeping the board in view at ALL times. In CT when the comment slider is at the bottom, there are sometimes more comments below and one has to start sliding the page, this isn't good. The slider has to be set so that a small move creates a relative large comment move, so the the last comment is in view before the slider hits the bottom.
2012-09-05	Datr	Another simple improvement, which I think I have suggested previously, would be to have a one move step back on the board, currently one can move forward one move but only back to the very beginning.
2012-09-05	Zuril	For the what-if scenarios is not sufficient the last function added where if you point the mouse on the boldface move in the solution grid and leave there for 1 second you can see the partial variation list and its computer score? http://forum.ideachess.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=177
2012-09-05	Zuril	If I zoom the page with Chrome (CTRL and +, CTRL and -) the board become smaller but I miss the bottom row. I think there isn't a way to reduce the board except to increase the screen resolution.
2012-09-05	Zuril	For the board chesstempo uses another development language: flash. I will add also the FEN string in practice mode.
2012-09-05	Zuril	Thank you Datr and SuperPAC for your suggestions. In the next development I will add the option to edit and delete the last comment to the problem by the same user.
2012-09-04	Datr	N4pll: I use Google Chrome. There is a Spanner icon on the top right of the screen, if I click on this the drop down menu has a Zoom option which changes the size of the board.
2012-09-04	N4pll	After playing myself versus computer, then I play the ELO mate/tactics. The problem is that the board is a too big when using ELO. How do I make the board somewhat smaller?
2012-09-04	SuperPAC	Another suggestion: seeing the average rating before people rate the problem themselves unquestionably influences how they rate it. It might be useful not to show the average rating of the problem until after the individual player has rated it.

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