What should I do when I can't understand the idea of a puzzle?

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Avatar of stillpushingwood

Hey peeps, 

I was on lichess doing puzzles and got this one: https://lichess.org/training/Rleeq 

Not sure why the correct move was correct. What should I do when I can't understand puzzles?

Avatar of llama47

White has two threats, winning the bishop, and Nd7 (double check) winning the queen.

So the idea is to move your king out of check in a way that black can't make any big threats to counter balance your two threats.

But when you don't know the idea, and you've spend a few minutes calculating, then pretend it's a real game and just guess. At that point it doesn't matter if you get it right or wrong, what matters is you study the solution.