Tactical puzzles without necessarily a solution

Hi everybody!

By doing the tactical training, I had the following reasoning. We know that there is a solution hence have to find one which leads to a non-negligible advantage. This of course helps to improve the computation capabilities during a game. However, during a game, we do not know whether there is some tactical move that can lead to an advantage.

Therefore, here come my proposition. We could do a variation of the tactical puzzles (so keep of course the normal one) which works as follows. Each puzzle corresponds to a situation of a game, like before, but some has a combination that "wins" and in some, there is nothing (we could run stockfish or other computer to be sure for example). In order to solve correctly a puzzle, one has two possibilities: play a move or press a button "No obvious win". If we play a move in a "No obvious win", we lose, and if we press "No obvious win" whereas there is a win, we lose as well.

What do you think?

I like this idea a lot myself, because if I'm told there's a tactic it's easier to find. Having the option to say there is no move that causes a significant advantage would be great - and force me to analyze the position properly.

I'd like to expand this idea: Having a puzzle where anything but the best move leads to material losses.

e.g. Englund Gambit, after Qxb2 threatening to Qxa1, the only right answer is Nc3 anything else is heavy material losses. A lot of the puzzles are actually one move before that introduced a tactic, so taking a lot of puzzles back one move and offer the other side the move not to fall into it (not all are like that, depending at what stage it's picked)

This puzzle method would allow us to train defensive resourcing as well as attacking.

I agree on what @Ysharia said. And Lev Alburt 's Chess Training Pocket Book features many similar positions.

Very nice idea girdav!

This is a very nice idea girdav! I hope this feature will be implemented!

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