This is an idea for the tactics trainer that is not in any other website.
It would be kind of like the study feature, after the puzzle is done, you can contribute and draw arrows and comments. and add variations. And other users can scroll through the comments that other users have left, and when they click on any of them, the arrows and variations of that user would display.
That site is Lichess ?
No, It's just an idea. I was saying that no website has it. And would like to see it here.
The idea is good only if all players are above 2600 FIDE.
Images 1000s of patzers and even trolls add their own variation. And then ... ?
It might work only if titled players allowed to contribute.
This might be useful for beginners who don't understand the puzzle even after being shown the solution, but I'm not sure it would benefit others. And usually one receives puzzles adapted to one's strength, so I would think that when seeing the solution one understands the tactic and further explanations are not really necessary.
#4
what if the tactics rating was shown next to the name of the user that left a comment. that way, you can choose to click on someone's comment with a high rating, and their arrows and variations would display.
#5
If you use ChessTempo, after each puzzle, you can check the comments, and see what other people say about the puzzle, and they add their own variations, and explain why some of them work and others don't. That's the idea. Many times, I want to know why a different move doesn't work, so this feature could help with that.
I like this idea. Let the users vote on the contributions, and sort them by the total votes.
I believe there should be a nice way to integrate the study platform into the tactics trainer. There could be something like a comment section so users can link their the puzzles that they have converted to studies. So perhaps there could be a way to immediately convert a puzzle into a study so it is not cumbersome.
If this was done it would be helpful to have an upvoting system, for that section. I would expect a similar number of comments as in chesstempo which are not too many.
Or perhaps instead of a comment section the puzzles, after solving a puzzle there could the associated studies with their upvotes and a title.
Perhaps others who think this would be a good idea could contribute on how this could be formulated and of course if someone has a programming background guide the discussions on which implementation could be feasible.
ps. ( I resisted trolling the thread answering to #6, "you could just use to stockfish local evaluation to see why something does not work....")
Thanks Pegasus.
Of course I use the engine to check for different moves. but I still think it'd be nice to see other user's comments, and different variations. And it's also faster this way.
And btw, ChessTempo also has engine analysis for premium members, yet many users still leave comments, and share their thoughts.
Maybe a lighter and more effective solution would be to create a virtual forum thread (through an auto-generated thread ID matching the puzzle), allowing people to comment there about the puzzle. Show the number of messages in the thread. As I said I doubt that useful comments can be made, so I mostly expect people to express their satisfaction or dissatisfaction. I will usually ignore it entirely, but once in a while I might be interested or amused to see what other people said about the puzzle.
The rationale is that complex chess analysis is not really relevant here, since the solution itself is usually enough and whatever else may be of interest is accessed instantly by clicking on the Analyze button. So the feedback will be more text-based.
This would also replace all the posts in the forums about particular puzzles, and allow all comments relevant to one puzzle to be found in the same post rather than scattered in the forum, and accessible from the puzzle.
