They aren't all wrong, but yes, a major problem is that they are categorized by your fellow puzzle users, and well. let's face it, few of us are chess experts. I've often wondered why Erik doesn't just hire some summer intern chess nerd (meant affectionately, not disparagingly) to go over the puzzles. Of course you could put a spin on it and claim it's a feature that not all the puzzles are from the category you chose; keeps you from getting sloppy and not looking at every aspect of the puzzle...
Puzzle "learning" categories are all wrong


They aren't all wrong, but yes, a major problem is that they are categorized by your fellow puzzle users, and well. let's face it, few of us are chess experts. I've often wondered why Erik doesn't just hire some summer intern chess nerd (meant affectionately, not disparagingly) to go over the puzzles. ....
That would be a lot of hours ....
But yeah, people voted for things that might exist in the position but had little or no bearing on the actual puzzle.

People that most often categorize the puzzles correctly should receive some sort of "respect points" and their opinion about the puzzles should be worth more. On the other hand, people that do it wrong should lose these points and their opinion about puzzles should be worth nothing. This can even be done automatically just based on the amount of up or down votes about a puzzle.
I've just started my 7 days free trial to decide wether I'd like to acquire a membership.
One of the main reasons I'd probably want to do that would be to practice different chess ideas through the puzzle learning categories in a focused approach.
The problem is that the first batch of puzzles I tried to do had all the categories wrong. I wanted to practice pin puzzles and out of 10 puzzles only 1 really was about pins, even though all of them were marked as a puzzle of the category "pin".
I also noticed that many of the other categories were also wrong. In one particular puzzle we only had the 2 kings and 2 pawns and besides "pin", one of the categories was "rooks on the seventh"...