tremendous trouble seeing ahead
The puzzles are based on forced moves. If you are not familiar with forced moves there is a lesson on here. Ignore the clock and aim to get them right first time. When I started, it often took me minutes to find a solution. I find little and often is best, so 5 a day is better than 25 once a week say. Give it time. It was 3 months before I started to see improvements in my games that I could attribute to puzzle training. Develop a method. I would start with the Queen and look at all checks, captures and threats (CCT) then the rooks, etc until I spotted a continuation to explore further. I do this less now as my intuition is better, but in the beginning I was very methodical. My method evolved as the puzzles got harder.
If you need a guide on how to improve, including tactical training, you can use this article:
https://www.chess.com/blog/nklristic/the-beginners-tale-first-steps-to-chess-improvement
You you show us some of these puzzles you are struggling on for context?
As for chess, you need to be able to look out there and be able to see "oh, if I make this move, he can just take me", or "if they take this piece, I can recapture" etc. You won't notice everything, but at your current rating even noticing this at a small level, avoiding giving your pieces away for free, etc. will improve your rating by several hundred.
For example, how difficult are these puzzles for you?
good question. I could not solve either of them. I kept getting red incorrect.
All you're playing is speed chess. You're not giving yourself time to think.
good question. I could not solve either of them. I kept getting red incorrect.
How long did you spend trying to figure it out? The first puzzle is just a 1 move fork. The second is just a discovered check combined with an attack.
I spent about 2 to three minutes on each one. I see the moves now, but it took two moves into the future to see it. that's what I'm having trouble with.
do not get frustrated
the key is to not move on until you understand the puzzle
(you can miss and get it wrong- this is fine- but spend all the time necessary to understand the tactic and replay it)
you can try all of the moves you want when you go over the puzzle in analysis
play your move and play the comps responses and work to understand why things work or dont
the time spent to understand one tactic properly is where you improve
it might also help (unless you are adept at setting things up in the site) to start with a beginner tactics book
a good tactics book has good puzzles and will work on the problems by theme in a very organized fashion
chess.com tactics is more of a test to see what you know
I spent about 2 to three minutes on each one. I see the moves now, but it took two moves into the future to see it. that's what I'm having trouble with.
If necessary set this position up on an analysis board (learn -> analysis) and test out moves, using the top line the computer suggests. (If you hit the share icon, click the PGN option, and copy the FEN, you can paste that into the FEN box of the analysis feature to have the board set up that way for you.)
It can take time to get used to these kinds of ideas.