专访Chesstempo创始人 - 2020年9月
对于本次采访工作，我找到了chesstempo的网站负责人Richard。本次采访通过电子邮件方式。通过这次采访，我们更有机会了解chesstempo创建的初衷以及背后的故事。以下“Q”指代“采访问题，以“A”指代“采访回答”。
Q：请Richard来向中国棋迷简单地介绍一下chesstempo。
A：你好zoushen，谢谢你邀请我进行采访。也感谢你为chesstempo的中文翻译所付出的努力！
Q：你之前有来过中国吗？
A：还没有，我女儿去年来中国是参加学校交流项目，从她口中得知中国之后，我很想在不久的将来亲自去中国！
Q：国际象棋在中国的情况你是怎么看的?
A:这是中国国际象棋运动项目一个激动人心的时刻，丁立人、王皓等棋手在国际棋联排行榜上名列前茅。
Q：chesstempo是您一个人在运作吗？
A：我们目前有两个开放人员在网站上工作，我和我的开发伙伴。我们也从Chestempo社区得到了很多帮助，像翻译和习题评论这样的贡献给网站带来了很大帮助。
Q：当初是什么样的选择让您创立了chesstempo？
A：我当时正寻找一种工具来提升我的棋力，但没有看到任何东西能达到我想要的效果，所以我开始研究Chesstempo。
Q：第一批chesstempo粉丝是怎么样建立的？
A：我们的第一批用户大多是通过“口口相传”慢慢建立起良好的用户口碑。
Q：chesstempo的用户群体发展到现在怎么样？
A：非常棒！就在几个月前，我们刚刚达到了我们第一百万个注册用户。战术训练一直是我们最受欢迎的功能，但我们在线下棋已经开始变得相当流行，现在每个月都超过一百万盘对局。
Q：在创建chesstempo之后应该遇到许多困难吧？
A：网络技术发展迅速，我们需要花费大量时间来跟上最新技术。我们在今年年初发布了新版本的网站，目前仍在对旧网站的其余部分进行改造。社区规模越大，需要花费越来越多的时间来确保社区的顺利运行。例如，我们不得不投入大量的时间在反作弊技术上，以确保游戏尽可能公平。
Q：chesstempo这个名字有什么含义吗？
A：嗯，字面意思是“Chess time”（象棋时间），但“tempo”（节奏）在国际象棋中也有特定的含义。其实这个名字有一个愚蠢的原因。我本来打算把这个网站称为“chess tactics”（国际象棋战术），但是后来又决定，如果我们现在以后添加更多的功能，这个名称可能太过于局限。不过，我已经有了一个logo，我已经在logo中用“CT”创建，所以我们从“Chess tactics”启用之前，将名称理念更改为“Chesstempo”意味着我不需要更改徽标 :-)
Q：对比同类的chess网站，chesstempo有哪些不同的地方？
A：我认为我们的主要力量是我们的社区，特别是解决习题的社区。求解者对习题的贡献chesstempo上的评论意味着对所有习题都有很多经过深思熟虑的评论，这使得理解每一个习题的解决方式都更加容易。虽然其他一些网站也有评论策略，但我不认为其中任何一个都像Chesstempo上的评论那样有用和写得好。
Q：我自己和我的学员经常在chesstempo上训练和在线下棋，您以推荐一下chesstempo上适合儿童的训练吗？
A：儿童可能受益于高级会员提供的许多定制功能。这使得习题解决者可以得到只有一个主题的习题集，这对于学习诸如“牵制”、“捉双”等基础战术知识非常有用。定制集还允许集合针对特定的评分范围，这有助于避免对刚开始学习国际象棋的儿童产生失望情绪。其他自定义设置功能，例如间隔重复或仅针对错误的设定也可以帮助加快学习时间。
Q：目前chesstempo的新网站还在不断地完善，有想过新网站完成后有什么新的功能或者新的训练？
A：当然！我们已经在开发全新的功能，但在发布之前我们不会谈论这些功能 :-)
Q：目前chesstempo的中文翻译即将完成（或已完成），有什么话想对中国棋迷说吗？
A：首先，我要再次感谢你在翻译上花了大量时间。我们已经有一些中国用户使用了这个网站，但我希望中文翻译能让更多的中国棋迷们在chesstempo上享受下棋和训练的乐趣。中国已经成为一个非常重要的国际象棋国家，终于有了一个翻译，真是太好了！
Q：非常感谢您能接受我的采访，在采访的最后，可以推荐一本国际象棋书或者最喜爱的棋手吗？
A：这是我的荣幸！有那么多优秀的象棋书，很难挑出一本来。我最喜欢的历史球员可能是米哈伊尔·塔尔。他的战术闪光点很符合Chesstempo最初版本的主题，当时它只是一个提供战术训练的网站。
采访时间2020年9月
以下是原文:
For this interview, I tracked down Richard, the director of CHESSTEMPO's website. This interview was conducted by E-mail. Through this interview, we will have a better chance to know why and the story behind the creation of Chesstempo. The following "Q" stands for "interview question" and "A" for "interview answer" .
Q: Let's invite Richard to brief Chinese chess fans on Chesstempo.
A：Hi Zoushen, thanks for inviting me to do this interview. Thanks also for all the hard work you put in to helping out with the Chinese translation of the site!
Q: Have you been to China before?
A：Not yet. My daughter visited last year as part of a school exchange program, and based on her report, I’m keen to get there myself in the near future!
Q: What do you think about chess in China?
A:It is an exciting time for Chess in China, with players such as Ding Liren and Wang Hao featuring high up in the FIDE rankings list.
Q: Do you work alone?
A：We currently have two developers working on the site, myself, and my development partner. We also get a lot of help from the Chesstempo community, with contributions such as translations and problem comment making adding great benefit to the site.
Q: What choice did you make to start Chesstempo?
A：I was looking for a tool to help improve my own chess, and didn’t see anything that did what I wanted, so I started work on Chesstempo.
Q: How did the first Chesstempo fans get started?
A：Most of our first users arrived via word of mouth.
Q: How is Chesstempo user base doing so far?
A：Great! We just reached our 1 millionth registered user only a few months ago. Tactics training has been our most popular feature, but our play online feature has started to become quite popular, with over a million games played each month now.
Q: After Creating Chesstempo, there must have been a lot of difficulties?
A：Web technologies move quickly, and we’ve needed to spend a lot of time keeping up to date with the latest technologies. We released the new version of the site at the start of the year, and we are still in the process of converting the rest of the old site over. The larger the community gets, the more time that needs to be spent on making sure the community runs smoothly. For example, we’ve had to invest a lot of time into anti-cheating technologies for example, to make sure the games are played as fairly as possible.
Q: Does the name Chesstempo mean anything?
A：Well, literally it means “Chess time”, but “Tempo” has a specific meaning in chess too. Actually there was a silly practical reason for the name. I had planned to call the site “Chess tactics”, but decided that name might be too limiting if we wanted to add more features later. However I already had a logo I’d created with the letters “CT” in the logo, so changing the name idea before we launched from “ChessTactics” to “ChessTempo” meant I didn’t need to change the logo :-)
Q: How does Chesstempo differ from other chess websites?
A：I think our main strength is our community, especially the problem solving community. The contributions solvers have made to the problem comments on chesstempo means there is a lot of well thought out commentary made on all the problems, which makes it much easier to understand each solution. While some other sites have tactics with comments, I don’t think any of them are as useful and well written as the comments on Chesstempo.
Q: My students and I often train and play online on Chesstempo. Could you recommend a child-friendly training on Chesstempo?
A：Children probably benefit from many of the custom set features available to premium members. These allow problem solvers to be given problem sets with only one theme, which is useful for learning the basics such as “Pin”, “Fork” etc. Custom sets also allow sets to target a specific rating range , which helps in avoiding discouragement for children who are new to the game. Other custom set features, such as spaced repetition or sets that target only mistakes can also help speed up learning time.
Q: At present, the new Chesstempo website is still being perfected. Do you think there will be any new function or new training after the new website is finished?
A：Definitely! We are already working on completely new features, but we will not talk about these until they are released :-)
Q: Chesstempo Chinese translation is about to be completed (or has already been completed) ,Do you have anything to say to Chinese chess fans that you would like to say?
A: Firstly, I’d like to thank you again for the large amount of time you’ve spent on the translation. We’ve had some Chinese users already using the site, but I hope the translation will allow many more to start enjoying playing games and training on Chesstempo. China has become a very important chess playing nation, and it is great to finally have a translation available!
Q: Thank you so much for the interview. At the end of the interview, could you recommend a chess book or a favorite player?
A：It has been my pleasure! There are so many excellent chess books, it is hard to single out just one. My favourite historical player was probably Mikhail Tal. His flare for tactics fits in well with the theme of the initial version of Chesstempo when it was a site that only offered Tactics training.
