puzzles don’t help you very much actually…

There are some kinds of tactical patterns that if you've never seen them before you're unlikely to find them over the board unless you are very good at calculation. Doing puzzles can help with that calculation ability, familiarize yourself with various tactical patterns so you can recognize when they are in or latent in a position, and potential decrease the time spent finding tactics overall.

Add to that, many games are won/lost on tactical ideas. It's better to familiarize yourself with as many as you can and exercise calculation than it is to not do it

I totally agree. Puzzles are only a part of chess improvement.

So my almost 3600 in puzzles are just waste of time? 😢

Puzzles help with calculation and tactical intuition. It's absolutely necessary.

You are so wrong, it is laughable.

No, you only PARTIALLY agree.

lol

You are actually correct! Well, the observation is correct anyway. The conclusion is wrong.

The conclusion that "puzzles don't actually help you" is wrong because puzzles are still very useful and pattern recognition which puzzles teach is important. The problem is that many treat puzzles as a catch-all solution to everything and it is this mindset which is flawed. I briefly mentioned this observation of yours in this old video of mine under the Jeremy Silman puzzle example: about 6:21 in the video (although the entire video is useful - especially the "Just Trade" flaw I mentioned before this).

Unrelated to this topic ( which is destined to be silly because it was made by a 700), great video

Oops, never mind 400

Why have you done 1100 puzzles then

Hey, just because @hesacrificedtherook2 is in the 700s rating, that doesn't mean that all their chess topics are silly. In fact, 700 is statistically higher rated than the "average" chess rating:

Your right, 700 rated players can make good topics. It’s just when they act like they are experts it gets silly. The “ I rest my case” was just a step to far. It’s ok to have opinions, but to pretend your the expert when there are people on the forum who are more than quadruple your rating is just silly

All right, fair enough. I like to keep positivity in my life and usually avoid putting down others.

Not at all, that really helps to open thinking Keep solving puzzles...

puzzles here are not so good as puzzles on lichess, as lichess puzzles are taken from acutal games, sure ypu get some pattern recognisition, but as a low rated player you rarely ever get the same positions in actual games, so lichess puzzles that are taken from actual games from all sorts of rating range are actually much better

also puzzles here tend to repeat quite often, which isnt a good thing either

Here is another problem with training too much with puzzles. You begin to look for concrete tactical solutions too much. This is a one-dimensional approach that might work against players below 1400 but will not help against stronger competition.

My club played some consultation games a while back. I noticed that club players (say, rated from about 1500-1800) were much too impatient. They always wanted to attack something, even when they had not completed their development or should have played more slowly, paying more attention to pawn structures and weak squares.

they had acquired this style from playing too many puzzles. In my view, it led their playing strength to be lower than their USCF ratings.

I agree that puzzles are overrated. In my personal opinion, they certainly can be useful but only to a certain extent. Many people rely almost entirely on loads of tactical puzzles to improve and often end up frustrated with their progress because all they've been doing is a bunch of puzzles.

i still love my puzzles tho lol