Puzzles 'coach' for desktops give bad advice:

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FullTiltBunny

So on the new way puzzles work for desktops, you get a coach that tells you what to do like "Find a way to end the game on the spot", "Solve for checkmate", etc. Well I've noticed on a few puzzles, the coach will give either bad advice or misleading advice. In one puzzle, the coach claimed "Find a way to win white's queen" on a puzzle that did not require white to sac the queen at all. The reason the coach claimed you could "find a way" is because the queen sac evals SLIGHTLY better than retreating the queen. That's stupid and misleading.

But the worst I've encountered yet is from this puzzle:

https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/2606924

The solution involves winning the exchange. What does the coach say? "Find a way to win a piece". You can't win a piece! You can win the exchange, but that's not the same thing.

My advice to everyone out there is to go into the puzzle settings and turn off the Puzzle Goals on the coach feedback. It makes the puzzles harder because you often get bad advice.