Is there a site with position puzzles?

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This article http://www.chess.com/article/view/ideas-on-planning-from-the-greatest-chess-coach made me realize there's something I'd really like to have as a way to improve.

That would be a site with a punch of position puzzles where you have to analyze the position and make a plan for the next 2-3 moves. Then you could see all the weaknesses and considerations written out (not 15 notated lines to "prove" the best plan which at my level wouldn't help me nearly as much )and what the best plan would be.

It is easy to find tons of puzzles about checkmate in 2-3-4 moves, but positional planning seem to be a lot more rare.

It would be great to find a place that has a lot of those so I could go do 10 or so a day to work on improving. Anyone know of a good resource like this, if it even does exist?

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Positional puzzles are a bit harder to create. 

There are many articles in chess.com that give positions and then analyze them, and some are positional, not having much to do with taking immediate material or checkmate.

A good chess book could probably help too. 

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Hey, I just bought a great book, you get no hints before the puzzle, only side to move. All 600 puzzels are uncatagorized, it's just like a real game.  Hope it helps.

Practical Chess Exercises: 600 Lessons from Tactics to Strategy

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CwHwEwSwS wrote:

chess tempo not sure if that helped but hope it did

I go there for tactical puzzles, but they don't really have what I'm looking for as far as positional goes.

@ir_r_n00b There are certainly some good articles here. I was hoping more for a database of all positional puzzles to make it easy to regularly do a few.

 

@SlimReaper99 Thanks that book certainly seems like it could be useful.