If you think it's tough to recognize the difference between a mate in 1 puzzle and a fork puzzle, just wait until you try playing an actual chess game with an actual member.
It is true that we do things all the time that make no sense at all. And you can often blithely ignore them.
But then again, maybe there was a point and you just need to take another minute or two to see it.
Puzzles are often bad because they let you assume your puzzle opponent played a senseless move.
They do not put you on your guard. In that way, they instill bad habits.
You have played enough puzzles.
Try a real game.
Hello,
I am Bad At Chess and an Actual Beginner, so to be frank I struggle when I get too far past M1 level puzzles overall as it is, but:
My puzzle rating is somewhere around 925 right now and I find some days that every single puzzle just seems way harder than usual and I'll start missing solutions super quickly, like 350 and barely make it past 600. Is this just because I am only good at certain types of puzzles? Do puzzles tend to stay to a general type overall during each round? Are those ez mate in 1 puzzles just very common?
Like this simple knight fork 328 puzzle with a 61% pass rate:
or this skewer 655 puzzle with a 57%:
I know it's maybe just because I'm ~Really Bad At Chess~, but I was just curious about this supposed phenomenon I keep running into once in a while. Puzzles are harder than their rating suggests for me every once in a while. I get it, but every once in a while I'll just feel like I'm swimming up a waterfall on every puzzle I do and I feel like I'm going nuts. I looked back at these and figured them out but I can't tell if it's just because I'm so used to getting a string of M1 puzzles for like 5 in a row and I just tunnel vision out and don't see obvious stuff or what.