Trouble understanding the Daily Puzzles.
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Jul 17, 2018
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They’re often to checkmate but also for a variety of things like winning material, position improvement, etc. you should do tactics
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For example, today’s puzzle is about how you can win a knight (and a queen if black takes the rook)
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Sprinkle-Oats wrote:
Furthermore, puzzles I've played elsewhere let you move wherever
Click the analysis button in the bottom left
It looks like this
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Sprinkle-Oats wrote:
I'm often not sure what the end goal of the puzzle is
Generally the goal of any tactic puzzle (on websites, in books, or anywhere) is to force an overwhelmingly advantageous position (or checkmate).
When you're winning material in a puzzle it's almost never 1 pawn. You're almost always winning big material. At least 2 pawns. Usually a piece or more (in chess lingo "piece" is a non-pawn, usually a knight or a bishop).
Some puzzles challenge you to find a draw. This is usually when the position looks hopelessly lost at first glance like you're down a lot of material and there's obviously no way to checkmate them (e.g. you have no pieces near their king).
Jul 17, 2018
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For more information please check out the forum topic devoted to the Daily Puzzle.
I am shaking my head as well! I couple of days ago ( puzzles ago) I noticed a way to mate the king in a couple moves. The puzzle took me though this weird set of moves where I lost all my pieces and ended up in a horrible position! Funny you brought it up! I just posted something about this myself! Can anyone explain?
Jul 17, 2018
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BILLDOZER83 wrote:
I am shaking my head as well! I couple of days ago ( puzzles ago) I noticed a way to mate the king in a couple moves.
It was not forced. You need to look for a better defense.
Common errors are assuming the opponent will make a capture when available and assuming that every capture has to be answered by a recapture. Remember, assume the opponent sees everything you do. If there's a mate, they will try to avoid it.
BILLDOZER83 wrote:
The puzzle took me though this weird set of moves where I lost all my pieces and ended up in a horrible position!
If the ending position looked really horrible, then it was probably stalemate, a draw. Any other set of moves and you would lose so a draw is good.
Hello, I am new to chess.com, and am having some trouble understanding the Daily Puzzles. When I work through them, I'm often not sure what the end goal of the puzzle is. I have worked on some chess "scenario-puzzles" before, and the main goal to solve the puzzle is almost always to acquire a checkmate given the context. However, many of the puzzles I see don't end with a checkmate. Rather, some other goal that is vaguely referenced by the title. Furthermore, puzzles I've played elsewhere let you move wherever, and sometimes had multiple methods to arrive at a solution, and your own errors would teach you how you made a mistake. The Daily Puzzles here, however, just plain don't let you make a "wrong" move (which isn't clear since the goal isn't explicit) and often times I'm just dragging pieces around hoping the game lets me make that move. Am I missing something here? I was really looking forward to these puzzles upon joining the site, but I just feel completely lost. Thanks in advance for any response.