If you try to solve your own puzzle, wouldn't you know the solution for it already then? Or are you creating a situation that you expect to win ant then try to slove it?
Chess puzzle editor

Try this: http://www.problemist.com/
It comes with a hige collection of problems, but you can create your own position and use this to check for flaws, cooks, double solutions etc.
It's not much help with composing, though, just error checking.
Hello,
Does anyone know of any software that allows one to create his own chess puzzles and then try to solve them?
I sometimes like to create my own chess puzzles to practice specific areas of my game. It would be nice to have a software that assists me with that.
Thanks!