How can I find out what the puzzles is about?
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This is your way to help a beginner? You are a really poor guy to insult me at my first threat. And my last I guess because I have another opinion for fair play.
Oct 9, 2019
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#5
The whole point is you're not supposed to be told the 'task' - the aim is to find the best move, just as you would do if you had the position in a real game.
Most puzzles will have a single clear solution. If you take todays puzzle: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/daily-puzzles/10-9-2019-false-protection
It's a sacrifice that leads to either mate or large material gain, there isn't a second best option for black - since black is down a pawn to begin with, any sort of normal move won't do. A puzzle answer should also 'resolve' the position, so it wouldn't for example be, just dropping an attacked piece back to safety.
Once you have more experience, you will get more of a sense for what the position likely demands, even if you can't see the solution to begin with.
James
thanks a lot for your professional and helpful answer!
I know that I should have to find the best move. As a Beginner I just want to get some hints by some professioinal player. Sometimes I dont understand the solution at all...
To give an example makes it more clear for me. great job!
Oct 9, 2019
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#7
Puzzles vary from easy to very hard. For newer players most will seem harder. After the puzzle is completed, click the small chess board icon and in analysis select "show lines". Look at the options and try to see why the moves are suggested. This will be very difficult for a beginner, so you should also do some of the lessons. I think the best thing to do is to get a book for beginners - intermediates about tactics. Good luck.
Oct 9, 2019
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#8
By the way - did you know that you can train on puzzles by theme?
Select "unrated" training mode - and I think that there should be a way for you to only train (for example) deflection puzzles, or skewers, or mates in two, or overloaded pieces, or pawn promotion... you get the idea.
I'm not sure exactly how to do this (never tried) - but I think that it's in that direction.
Good luck!
Yes I‘ve already spent a lot of hours with the training puzzles. To know the issue make ist easier. Next I will try the analysis. Never did it yet because it looks... strange. 
thank you for your answers.
Oct 10, 2019
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#10
You're right - it does make it much easier and it also helps you learn certain repeating patterns that are at the heart of chess.
You're welcome :-)
p.s. the computer analysis will not always give answers that you'll understand... so the forums will still provide instructive value until you become stronger.
Hey Katzeneintopf,
the best way to learn puzzles is building up a sort of repertoire/pattern-recognition. Don’t do puzzles yet. Either go with chess.com’s Chess Mentor (called lessons) at first or go buy Chessmaster 10 or 11 (Ubisoft) and be prepared for a great intensive course with Josh Waitzkin. As I see, you have the diamond membership so combine it with videos to have something visual support your learning process.
You need to repeat lots of different stuff like „Skewers“, „Forks”, „Remove the Defender“, „Mate in X“ etc.
Your brain will start to recognize patterns in puzzles, you will learn what to look out for. How many pieces are there on the board (count points)? What is less defended, is the opposing king exposed or in danger or does the opponent have other weaknesses?
Mein Landsmann, you have some great tools to work with here.
Greetings,
Cabal
the best way to learn puzzles is building up a sort of repertoire/pattern-recognition. Don’t do puzzles yet. Either go with chess.com’s Chess Mentor (called lessons) at first or go buy Chessmaster 10 or 11 (Ubisoft) and be prepared for a great intensive course with Josh Waitzkin. As I see, you have the diamond membership so combine it with videos to have something visual support your learning process.
You need to repeat lots of different stuff like „Skewers“, „Forks”, „Remove the Defender“, „Mate in X“ etc.
Your brain will start to recognize patterns in puzzles, you will learn what to look out for. How many pieces are there on the board (count points)? What is less defended, is the opposing king exposed or in danger or does the opponent have other weaknesses?
Mein Landsmann, you have some great tools to work with here.
Greetings,
Cabal
Hi there
As a beginner I love to play and to learn by the puzzles. And I identify an issue which takes care that I lose more puzzles than I win.
Its the issue to not see what the puzzle is all about. Is the issue defence, getting material, checkmate or some other issue? I recognize that often there are more than one possibilites to play. But maybe just that is my problem.
I hope somebody may get me a helping hand to get a better view and decision for my next 10000 puzzles.
kind regards
katzeneintopf