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It feels really good for black because white's pieces are under developed and all tangled up uncoordinated. Black got into this position by applying the pressure throughout the whole game, forcing white to constantly make concessions. If black doesn't convert the advantage, it could easily slip away. All white needs is a couple of moves to equalize. It's also two bishops versus two knights in an open board and white has an outside pass pawn that's gonna be pushed. What would blacks move be then let's imagine taking the pawn in the middle? Qxd4 Qxd4 Rxd4 Be3 and already White is untangling. So already we have to move our queen somewhere to avoid trading queens, and we can't take the pawn in the middle. Black has a temporary positional advantage, but if there's no concrete conversion, then it's basically equal in less than a move or two. Actually, white is up a pawn on a4 and it's an outside passed pawn, its going to be a tough defence for black.

I know what you mean, this puzzle its basically "is the bishop really free"? In master games the free bishop is a trap.

I know right we should all celebrate on a child's premature death

Ra8+ Kg7 Ra7+ Kg6 Rxh7 Kxh7 e6 and the pawn cannot be stopped.

That's a great idea, we need epistemic Barney the Truenosaurus Rex (T-Rex). Some puzzles are defensive, where one side has an advantage, but they're on the verge of losing it if they don't play perfectly. There's a wide range of puzzles that don't cookie-cutter fit the puzzle stereotype.

I want to build a platform similar to chest tactics except you're given consciousness tactics. And what you would be training is to level up your thinking process aligned with the consciousness work of actualized.org. Basically to make it fun and addictive in the way chess is and to have everything structured in one place. And lets imagine each puzzle can be served to you and you would receive a rating and so on. Do you think something like this is possible? Consciousness tactics/puzzles? Can it be gamified? but consciously taking care to not turn it into a dogma?

Have you thought of any novel ways of learning that go beyond what most people do who do achieve grandmaster status? How to achieve that freak of nature skill level? lol

What about people who play for 10 years and never improve?

Puzzle 5 Black to move and win.

Leo is right if black doesnt take the rook on h7 and instead takes the bishop, then the pawn can be stopped. What i was talking about before was the line when black takes on h7. Its important to see why taking on h7 losses. But blacks desperate attempt by taking the bishop also losses because its a lost endgame 4 pawns vs 2 pawns.

Thats true but not the whole story, the difference between 1600 -> 1800 -> 2000 -> 2200 -> 2400 -> 2600 -> 2800 -> 3000 Every 200 points is a huge mile stone. Statistically if people play each other with a 200 points gap they win the majority of the time. 200 points is massive. Its unclear what a tone of work looks like and why these gaps happen. I started playing when i was a child and reached master ish level at 15-16. But i hated opening because it was blind memorization that was not what i loved about chess, so this "limited me". On chess.com i hit in blitz 2200 rating peak in about 2 years of taking chess pretty seriously (ignoring openings). Then i switch to other things like software. Now with brain fog and health issues/age im not as good.

I fully agree. One of the ways i went about training this was to list the high quality questions that would give me these insights and then to remind myself to ask these questions on every step of the calculation. Then with repetition these high quality question become second nature, automatic and part of the subconscious. For example: What can i learn about the position that i dont already know? If you pause on each step of the calculation and relax into it and with out skipping ahead and allow the future position to really sink in, that help alot, but it requires patients. -- Designing high quality questions and knowing what question to focus on is super importnat. Its basically the act of designing your own thinking process. Meta-thinking-design. --- But alot of people dont go this Meta route and just rogue learn it with pattern recognition and inherit tallents, i feel like all the top players are like this. By missing out on the psychology and meta thinking aspects of chess you get less from it. --- The way the top players teach chess it nonsense. They have absolutely no idea how they became so good. The milestones they acheaved that seperates them from the average player takes massive insight to bridge. That they are not conscious of. Uncorupting a mind is 100x harder then indoctrinating one.

the order is Kxh7 e6, Rxb3 e7

No! lol even if you sacrifice the rook for the bishop, the pawn cannot be stopped! Rxb3, e7. The pawn is a unstoppable beast

@Joshe @Jannes Yes e6 is the only winning move. but why? Can the king stop the pawn by covering the e8 square? if not why? Try to find a way for the king to stop the pawn from promoting. Can the rook stop the pawn by moving to cover e8? if not why? Try to find a way for the rook to stop the pawn from promoting. If you sacrifice the rook for the bishop can black stop the pawn?? Do everything you possibly can as black to stop that pawn and see if you could do it.