How Chess.com puzzle goals are slowly ruining your chess

I'm a chess.com Platinum member and enjoy its resources — especially the puzzles, which I have crossed a Million points at. The puzzles are mostly good, but the goals / assists - NO!

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Most people think these assists help them find out what they're supposed to do. Let me explain WHY it's bad.
So imagine, you end up at a position on the board in a game. There is a tactic. If you're strong enough you should see it. But, you don't know what the tactic is, whether winning material, mate or forcing a draw. You might be losing too. If you do puzzles - a lot without these assists, you train yourself to see these tactics. In a puzzle you come at a position. There is something that saves you or wins material or mate for sure on puzzles. But what it is is for you to figure.

These assists tell you WHAT TO DO. Instead of you thinking and figuring what to do, the assists itself tells you your goal, sometimes sayin " I will be in trouble if you take my bishop ", which clearly gives the puzzle away.

If you train to see tactics without the assists, in real games you learn to do the same. This helps you save losing positions, win winning positions.

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Disadvantages of PUZZLES, not just chess.com's

As I said at the beginning, puzzles are meant for you to win material, mate or save yourself. Yes these helps you see tactics in games, but you know you are supposed to do this.
You must solve puzzles, but at the same times you should take losing, equal and winning positions and find good moves, where, you know not whether it is a tactic, a normal position, or mate. This is something I do. I finish my tactics, then take positions from GM games and others. I then analyze and make candidate moves. I chose the best of them. Then I check with the engine ( a powerful one ). I try to find moves which are top engine ( preferably THE top engine line ) and verify my mistakes. But finding these positions aren't easy.

But it is easy... You can hover to the " Watch " section and then select broadcasts. Take a random tournament. Select a game. Doesn't matter what their ratings are. Chose a move Then take that position and analyze, check for any position familiar ( follow the rules if so ), make candidates and make variations. Possibly write it down for time being. Then chose the best move. Then check with the engine. If you get the best moves, good. Keep doing it. In games too, when you go to the middlegame or the post-middlegame and endgame stages, you can follow the same method to get good progress.

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Unpuzzle
This is one of my favourite chess websites. You won't find it easily by just searching it up. So here's the link : https://elicoggins.github.io/unpuzzle/

I was checking out some blogs a long time ago, when I found this. And shoutouts to whoever wrote the blog, cuz that website was very good. They apply whatever I just yapped in the past 2 paragraphs. Most the positions are normal positions, not tactics. Surprisingly you can get positions where you are completely lost. The main idea is to still play accurately and apply pressure. Once you enter the move, you can check the top engine lines there. It also mentions ACPL ( Average Central Pawn Loss ) and your accuracy. You also end up with tactics, which is good, cuz you're mind isn't knowing about it, hence you tend to find the best move, not to win or save the game. You can start training here. It definitely a good place and I use it often.

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Outro
I agree chess.com puzzles are good, mostly, and I don't recommend you not to do them or to stop puzzles. Puzzles / tactics are important, but the assists are ruining your chess, so don't use it.
Thank you...