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@3: Learn something new everyday!

Still, most of these puzzles, however helpful for your cognition they might be, seem not to reproduce my "Chess experience". At all. But I'm a mediocre player at best.

What Cynosure said in #9, I can still get totally behind that. Well said!
Many of the puzzles I get are really obscure patterns that *never* seem to come up in my games though.
Chessflub, listen, it just wants you to find the best move whether it leads to checkmate or not.
#12 - then you're doing it wrong. The point of developing the recognition of said patterns is to then find situations where one can recreate them, too.

Unfamiliar positions in the puzzles are a direct result of them being unfamiliar. It's rare for you to play 100 games and end up in 100 positions that are unfamiliar to you, even if you have never played a single game. By the 100th game, you will have unknowingly played down lines in such a way that they resulted in similar positions that you had before when they were working fine up to a point. If you do 100 tactics puzzles, you will unknowingly begin to recognize how you could bring similar positions to the board knowing that it has a liklihood of winning.

#7, #8, and #9 - I didn't suggest that the type of puzzle should be indicated (I argued that once before and had my opinion changed by some pretty well-argued points like #8). I was simply agreeing with the OP that it can indeed be frustrating. That being said, I agree wholeheartedly with #8, and I think there is far more benefit to toughing it out through the vagueness of some of the puzzle positions than to simply give up. The rewards cannot be reaped if nothing is sewn.

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