I would think that they help people get better at chess. I have experienced a rating increase after doing lots of puzzles.
Do puzzles really help me get better at chess?
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Try doing puzzles from puzzle book or pick up a tactic book or two. Puzzles help train random tactics but sometimes it’s good to just study the tactics more deeply
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but overall, yes. Try to keep up an hour of puzzles a day if you want to improve, although you should try to get the puzzles from puzzle books more and less from chess.com
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Sacrificing your life bottled up in room staring at a screen gets you better at chess. Basically game after game….hour after hour you poor brain recognizes patterns repeating openings repeating shit over and over and over again…..so instead of being out experiencing life outside doing shit….you basically turn into the fat dude from the movie WALL·E riding around in the hover chair or better yet, watch the episode SOUTH PARK “make love not Warcraft”……that’s basically all you do to get better at chess…
I've done thousands of puzzles on this account, with a rating of 2550. But I'm confused on whether they actually help. Why? Well, when I do puzzles, its a lot easier to spot sacrifices and stuff like that, because you know there is a solution. But in real games, its different. I also only have a 52% pass rate, so that may also be a reason. If puzzles aren't a good way to make me improve fast, what else should I do? I feel like my skill isn't improving