Let’s go over the different types of puzzles and how to solve them, beginning with Mate in One Puzzles. Now let’s get down to business and see how it all works in practice. These three things will serve you as a good starting point. You need to assess what you’ve got at the end, whether it’s an extra pawn, extra piece, a better square for your pieces etc. In chess terms, this is also called the evaluation of the position. You need to get a firm answer to this question because this determines whether the sequence you played was good or not. You don’t need to be very detailed on this, but it’s good to have a general understanding of what pieces are doing.Īs you become more experienced, this process happens unconsciously without your active interference. Other times, they might be controlling an important square or attacking something. Often there will be a piece that will be performing an important defensive task. 2) Watch out for which piece is doing what Now let’s see practical examples and understand how to put these principles into action. Once again, this puts a limit on their number of options. So basically when you attack something, your opponent has to respond to your threat.
Attacking moves – What’s your first instinct when someone attacks your queen? Do you ignore it or you make sure that your queen is safe? Under normal circumstances, any player would move their queen away(unless you’re Mikhail Tal!).While capture isn’t as forcing as a check, the opponent’s choice is still restricted. Captures – When you capture material, the opponent needs to recapture it back or else they’ll be behind in material.Checks – Thanks to the rules of the games, a player has to deal with a king in check, and any other move which doesn’t address this problem is illegal.This limits their choices and gives your calculation a direction to follow. These are moves where your opponent is FORCED to react to in a certain way. While everyone develops their own individual style for solving puzzles, there are some common elements which they all follow. Process To Solve Puzzlesįor most masters, because of continuous training, they are able to spot simple combinations and checkmates rather quickly. You keep increasing the difficulty as things become easier. Once you master that, then you can start with ‘Mate in 2’ puzzles and so on. So if you’re a beginner and have never solved a puzzle in your life, I recommend you start by solving basic ‘Mate in 1’ puzzles first. You first start to solve simple chess positions, before you move on to more complex ones.
The same also applies when you train in chess. If you start with the goal to run 42 kms at once in the first few weeks without proper training, you are going to put yourself under immense pressure and become demotivated when you don’t hit your target. You’d need to train for smaller distances, become better at it and then gradually increase the difficulty. Is it possible that from day one you’d be able to run 42 kms all at once?įor most humans, that would be impossible. Imagine you’ve decided to run a marathon. Which puzzles should you solve?Īt first, you should start with easy puzzles and move on to more difficult ones. Updated the instructions to be more organized and clear.
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