Tactic puzzles a scam?

The tactics help me alot to see little attacks. What is most difficult for me is to take it one step before that: how to set them up? Thats quite easy for simple discovered attacks, but most other tactics seem to happen suddenly without me setting them up.

At start with puzzles you learn how the different tactics work. A true beginner recognizes a Pin or a Discovery but doesn't spot a Deflection or an Interference for example

Dont know, maybe the whole point of tactic puzzle is to keep your mind distracted from improving your game at all. 

Chess all in all is definitely a form of decoy. It's destracting us from thinking about what we really want to do and how to go about it achieving this.

I love conspirator theories! Tactics are soooooo highly overrated.

account closed.wow that was quick.

JamieKowalski  

He really doesn't want to "Ownership" mistakes so he just closed his account. This thread presumably is his way of saying, "Goodbye, Chess!" 

I think studying tactics help a little bit but there's a lot more to chess than just tactics.

Whose account is closed??

"ownership"

I can access his account.

but to me is closed ?

Shrug... I just tried again and I can access it. I don't think it's in a cache, but it might be.

You a mod ! congratulation , you have access to all the secrets of the chess.com !

note: the comment above was a joke.

I teach chess full time at 10 schools here in San Francisco. My students do extremely well at tournaments and tactics training is definitely part of their core training program. Studying tactics alone will not make you a GM but it is neccessary if you want to improve your game. Of course, IM pfren shared with me his award winning secret: magic jellybeans. I order a box from him once a month. Sure, it costs me $237.19 per box but it's worth it. He told me that my game would start to improve after I ate the 15th box.

YES! Absolutely!  The key to becoming a great chess player is to play the Parham opening exclusively.   Some people call it matrix chess.  All other chess activities are completely useless.  Why should a young genius be influenced by the preconceived antideluvian notions of the IMs and GMs all over the world?  They are a bunch of patzers and should be roundly ignored!

Isn't chess 99% tactics ?  or is it 99.99% tactics.  

I may be a flyer in the database, but tactics training has helped me a lot. My chess skill imo are lopsided. I have poor tactical ability and what I know and understand in other areas does not help me remove my opponents material off the board while retaining mine.

Possibly as much as tactics training was learning how to slow down and take more time. I would play a thirty minute otb game and have 21 minutes left after I was soundly thrashed by a player with better tactics ability than I have. I still get thrashed, but not as soundly if I take my time and think before I act.