There is a great book called "The Best Move" by Vlastimir Hort and Vlastimir Jansa that provided diagrams but often didn't tell you who was winning.
Unfortunately, a reprinted edition is reportedly of low quality.
Here is a page copied from the Internet Archive copy of the original 1980 version of the book:
You should work on chess composition studies. They force you way our of your comfort zone and force you to think outside the box.
Justbefair: I absolutely agree that the book you talked about is great (The original name of the book in Czech language is “Lets play against grandmasters”, but it doesn’t matter neither the fact you wrote wrong first name of two Czech grandmasters). But OP is barely 1500 and the book would probably be too hard for him. I was about 1900 Fide when I read the book and I failed to solve most of the puzzles. If you swear you will not ban me I would tell OP what sites would satisfy his desire (these are lichess and chesstempo but don’t betray it to justbefair).
I already use chesstempo and lichess. I really enjoy the idea of not knowing who is winning and try to find variations for both side. I will try it.
It's also really weird to solve problems from the opponent point of view.
Go ahead borovicka75 tell me the good sites
I don’t understand what you’re searching for. At lichess and chesstempo you can solve unlimited puzzles. If you have 10 free dollars per month, you can solve unlimited puzzles at chess.com as well.
“It’s also very weird to solve problems from opponent’s point of view”. What? If you are playing chess game, half of your job is to solve problems from opponent’s point of view. Also, it looks very impressive that you have 100% ratio in chess.com puzzles but you mostly solved only mate in 1 or 2. To be honest, solving puzzles in 2 seconds will never help you to improve in playing games.
At 1500-1700, I believe you only need to look for your moves and sometimes estimates the opponent answer..
"Also, it looks very impressive that you have 100% ratio in chess.com puzzles but you mostly solved only mate in 1 or 2. To be honest, solving puzzles in 2 seconds will never help you to improve in playing games." -> account created recently.
The initial problem is that on chesstempo, chesscom or lichess I know that I am looking for something when doing puzzles. I wish a training system could propose puzzles without solution or no clear winning moves because most of the problems are about mate, capture ect..
Maybe its because only higher rated puzzles include those ?
How to solve puzzles in a way which helps you to improve your play?
1. Coun material of both sides.
2. Ask yourself: What is my opponent threatening?
3. Make list of possible checks and captures.
4. Calculate moves which are checks and captures. Didn’t find the solution?
5. Calculate moves which are only checks. Still didn’t find the solution?
6. Calculate moves which are only captures. Still didn’t find the solution?
7. Make list of all moves which are threats and calculate all of them.
This is the way to solve problems which will improve your playing. Surely you realise that this process do not take 4 seconds.
You are playing game you should do all this for you AND for your opponent. On every single move.
Seems impossible? Well should stop playing blitz and bullet.
I love tactics. I do tactics everyday. However, I struggle to use them in game because I never focus to find tactics as I do while training.
I think a good solution could be to have an app that proposes puzzles, but that includes some puzzles that do not have a specific winning move (like a sacrifice, winning a piece).
Because the only problem with tactic puzzle is that you know what you are looking for. Whereas in game, its also about strategy/improving pieces..
Do you know a platform that can do that ?