Does puzzle solving really helps?

I am solving puzzles on a daily basis, and I don't think that its helping me that much 

Does that mean you have to somehow create those tactics in game or they just happens and you need to see them because in so many articles of chess improvement puzzle solving is recommended by all.

Or is it about the approach we use for solving puzzles.

Kindly share your opinions regarding puzzles. 

Every answer is appreciated feel free to criticize me.

I see 2 stages.  The first is recognizing when a tactical opportunity presents itself.  The second is creating them.  Both depend on pattern recognition which can take awhile to develop.  If you're not solving dozens a day, you're just kidding yourself.  My $.02 .

hi, as artin said, solving puzzles force you to calculate moves, by doing puzzles at least your calculation skills will improve little by little. About the tactics themselfs from those puzzles, its more about pattern recognition, if you will meet a similar puzzle plenty of times you will start to recognise it in your games or you may try to move you pieces into a pattern which you know. In game there is nobody telling you be careful now a tactic is possible, its just about you pattern recognition of that tactics.

Actually I beg to differ a little.

In my situation, after learning some tactics, I tried to gain confidence by attempting to launch some of these tactics in familiar situations. Lots of failures ensued, but when my first success with the tactic came, I felt really happy (like successfully performing a smothered mate with queen sacrifice for the first time).

Once this happened, I started to be more aware of this. I launched a few more as time passed, and I started to calculate tactics further.

So, in my opinion, a person first needs to overcome the emotional hurdle of launching a tactic first, before being able to calculate lines.

Take this position, for example.

Observe the position carefully. There is only one winning move for White with White to play in the position.

If I had not learned sacrifices, I would not have ever spotted the winning move 1. cxd6. I would tend to think "no way I am allowing myself to lose my queen by 1...Qxc5 after 1. cxd6".

Well, you nailed my points in a single paragraph.

And yours as well, in an even shorter paragraph.

How long have you been solving puzzles?

Maybe you should try a structured approach first before trying to solve random puzzles. There are series of books for that and chess software as well, like CT-ART

But solving puzzles most definitely helps!

Can you name all the tactics that exist and reproduce all of them on a board?

I always felt that i played a lot better after having done even just 30 min of tactics before playing a few games.

It does help but finding and learning one opening that you really enjoy with white and with black is important too.

And to take the time to think for each move you and your opponent make is very important.

If you do enjoy doing tactics and if you have the time it's great! on many level.

Puzzle solving works best if your training to find patterns. Not sure about chess.com, but Chess King training stuff does pattern recognition.

It goes like this: Your given a bunch of "level 1" problems, which consists of various patterns, but there are only enough pieces on the board to show the pattern. Each level just adds more pieces to the board, so you have to mentally screen out the pieces that are not part of the pattern.

Different patterns have different levels of difficulty, no not every pattern will have 10 levels.

Anyway, the difficulty between levels is pretty minimal, since only difference is the number of pieces on the board. You can look at it this way: Level 1 would be an endgame problem, and level 10 would be the same pattern in the middle game.

Chess.com might have the same thing going on. I mostly just use chess.com for the forums. 😋

OF course, Chess King has all sorts of problems other than pattern recognition. But pattern recognition is excellent training for anybody that's rated under 1900 USCF.

This is how my ability to solve puzzles and tactics saved me from an otherwise lost position.

With my two rooks under attack and seemingly undefendable at all, Black is bound to lose one rook.

Solving puzzles on chess.com is great to really solidify your understanding of tactical motifs and help you solve them faster. However, in order to really learn the motifs first you have to either learn from a video, article, or book first. I'd recommend checking out some of these tactics books. The first one listed there is especially helpful, it lists each motif and helps you learn it.

Do puzzles if you wanna beat me.

And take your time solving them, let your brain analyse and understand the pattern that the tactic offers. Don't just throw random check which you feel is the best.

Puzzle solving definitely helps in the long run, you won't get results in few weeks. It would take months, even years to get better.

Puzzles make you tactically strong, and that is the skill which would win you many games at your level.

Enjoy, puzzle solving is fun

yes I think it helps if you make puzzles

I was solving puzzles for at least 3 months before I started to feel the pattern recognition and calculation improvements were coming through to my games. I'm in my forties. It may come quicker if you are younger. You didn't say how long you've been puzzling for, but give it time. It will strengthen your calculation, pattern recognition, and tactical knowledge.

The time that I posted this I did puzzles. I had 2 weeks of puzzle solving experience. Thanks for advice.  

I often questioned this myself, after having solved hundreds, probably more like thousands of Chess puzzles, I wonder if it had any serious impact on my Chess ability.  I don't think it's about how many you solve though, it's about the quality of the solving, how much did you really learn in that one tactic etc.  

I think puzzles are helpful when you're starting out, learning back rank mates, end game motifs, etc. But when you become an intermediate player I have my doubts, you're better off just playing a strong opponent/bot each day without time control, with review. And throw in some fun games and a bit of study.

Puzzle solving helps a lot ...it helps to catalyze your learning process