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  • 20 months ago · Quote · #1

    MaddFunn

    I was happy with all the chess puzzles at first, but recently they started getting sorta ridiculous. I am not complaining about the degree of difficulty the chess puzzles are, but about how the defending side plays them. A puzzle is not something that is created out of an error of an opponent, a puzzle is something that has a definite solution, which will always end in mate, not in a position in which the side has an "easy win". Also, this mate should not be the result of a blunder that black (or whatever the defending side is) makes (for example todays puzzle).

    Some may ask, "What is your problem?" My problem is rather simple, that these puzzles are created as a way to learn, and the way they sometimes force you to think is "what happens if my opponent blunders like this", which is not a correct way of thinking about a puzzle. Also i spend quite a time thinking about a checkmate which it doesnt allow me to do, since there are multiple solutions to some of the puzzles :P


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