Tool for tactical improvement

[David Dahlem]

Yes, the "Blunder Finder" is nice, but i would like an "Excellent Move Finder".

[Ron Murawski]

For tactical training there's also Chess Hero
http://innokuo.altervista.org/chesshero.html

Ron

[pgeorges]

Before hacking it by myself, I would like to know if there is a program that goes through a pgn file and makes an epd file of the positions in which a tactical shot was missed.

I prefer open source software in linux environment, but other solutions could be OK. The pipeline could be something like the following:

1) Feed to crafty annotate function the pgn file.
2) Post-process the crafty log file in order to capture those positions that contains missed tactical shots (parametrized value).
3) Create the epd file of these position.

User could than view the generated epd file in databases like scid that allow to mask the best move and try to guess it.

Thanks in advance.

Arturo

Scid does it : use the game annotation feature with an engine and check "mark tactics" option. It will append **** to game comments and with the "find best move" menu you can go through exercises.

Pascal Georges