Secret technique discovered!

After losing more than 200 points in a day, I discovered an incredible technique: in every puzzle, I ask myself "what is the move that I would never ever play in any game no matter what". And voila, it's almost always the correct answer!

Final note: I really suck at chess

George Costanza also tried this (with success) in the comedy sitcom Seinfeld (The Opposite episode). The problem is of course that there are usually more than 2 "opposite" possibilities in life and also that the person is seldom wrong with literally every decision they make. 

As for solving chess puzzles, don't get discouraged. You aren't that bad, you just haven't gained enough chess knowledge and pattern recognition yet. 

Whenever you attempt a puzzle and get it incorrect, it is useful to analyze that position (usually with Analysis board) and try to reason why the solution is "best" and try to reason how you could have found that originally. It just takes some practice and experience, but once you get the hang of it, then puzzle solving will become easier for you.

There is a basic truth to that. Knowledge comes in levels and the next level often appears to reverse some of the knowledge of the previous level. But when you get more experienced you will see that the conditions are different on those levels. You may come from a place where winning a queen is great and just have arrived in a place where you must give up a queen to checkmate a king. When you go up another level you will discover that the blunt queen sacrifice (which is boring) must often be introduced with subtle starting moves. And so on. After a number of years you will have learned to recognize the patterns of these levels and know which one to apply in a puzzle challenge. And a game as well!

Thanks a lot! THIS is exactly what's happening at the moment, I've seem to cross some kind of threshold and suddenly the moves/combos that worked previously are not longer correct. My greatest weakness are 'win material' puzzles, I get most of the checkmates and about half of the endgames (I find them really frustrating).  But the 'win material' puzzles are my bane, I can stare at the board for an hour and still fail.

I am new to chess. I have reached 1000 puzzles and am finding some that i am certain i have a better answer. The most recent traded queens then gave me a rook free. My answer gave me his queen for a bishop. Neither left me in a check or check mate risk. How do i find out why the puzzle thought this was better?  

You can try to check if there are any comments for that specific puzzle, it's under 'speech bubble' icon on the right bottom side of the screen. I encountered something similar several times and always it was my misunderstanding of the position or missing some crucial element.

Great i will try that. I figured it was me since im new but i needed to find a way to learn what i was missing. Thanks

Spoke too soon. I have a next button there and analysis in the middle.  Analysis gives me forw ard and back.  

It's below that. There are a row of small icons, settings is the first, comments are the second, but that only appears after you solve it (or fail).

By the way, as you see that there is an analysis button, why don't you use that? It is much better than hunting for comments from random people.

I.m go youtube and I see top chess found secret technique

and look good