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I have been grinding puzzles a whole bunch lately, and every now and then I encounter very frustrating puzzles with no clear tactic, and the solution is just to make a single solid improving move as if it were obvious how it gives you a major advantage. If I am missing some higher level concept in this puzzle, please let me know. According to the engine c5 is the top move that I found but the engine also suggests e7 (which I was also considering), and cxb5. The theme is "Doubled Rook", but you would think a puzzle with that theme would actually use the rooks in some way to complete the puzzle.
Most of the themes were crowd sourced so it's hit or miss if they are accurate or have anything to do with the puzzle. There is a project being worked on to automatically theme puzzles and fix problematic ones
There are some puzzles in the database that are like this one, that were automatically found in games but that are not really satisfying. They can be reported to staff either through a bug report or ticket to staff.
I'll mention this one to staff.
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I have been grinding puzzles a whole bunch lately, and every now and then I encounter very frustrating puzzles with no clear tactic, and the solution is just to make a single solid improving move as if it were obvious how it gives you a major advantage. If I am missing some higher level concept in this puzzle, please let me know. According to the engine c5 is the top move that I found but the engine also suggests e7 (which I was also considering), and cxb5. The theme is "Doubled Rook", but you would think a puzzle with that theme would actually use the rooks in some way to complete the puzzle.