How I Create Chess Puzzles for Best Learning Outcomes

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@pasadenapsych44 Ай бұрын

This is why your chessable courses are good - you're a born teacher and a scientist to boot. 300 positions is good value. Appetite for your upcoming blunders course is whetted!

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

❤️ Thank you so much for your kind words.

@dimebagdonny Ай бұрын

Great work, sir! Position 1 was highly instructive! I haven't watched the others. Thank you for actually putting in all the extra effort to make clean puzzles with one clear solution that don't come with an exponentially increasing move tree of obfuscation. Then lying by omission (like so many other content creators do) by pretending that it doesn't exist. Then lying again about how straightforward and instructive the puzzle is. To me you seem like a man of integrity who goes the extra length to make high-quality content. Definitely makes me want to buy your Blunder Check course when it gets published.

@battlescard213 Ай бұрын

Me too, Man. I want his courses. Bad.😢

@dimebagdonny Ай бұрын

@@battlescard213 He impressed the hell out of me. What bothers me is that so many Bravo Sierra artists in this niche seem to get rewarded the most while those who put out high-quality content and have some integrity seem to get marginalized.

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Your words mean a lot to me. In this day and age, I think working to improve the quality of the puzzles for best learning outcomes should be the responsibility of chess authors. We can still make a difference as humans in this realm.

@battlescard213 Ай бұрын

@@Dr.CansClinic And it IS greatly appreciated, Coach. I’m a patzer right now still - but I LOVE studying and playing Chess. In fact, to me, you’re not cool if you don’t Love Chess.

@dimebagdonny Ай бұрын

@@Dr.CansClinic I think a few good chess authors can make a difference and stand out from the big name chess info-tainers and certain fat, blowhard, bullshit artist GMs.

@criseberle6304 Ай бұрын

I really like the simplicity and purity of the examples you showed in this video. I love learning from puzzle instruction and look forward to your upcoming course! Thanks Dr. Can!!

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

My pleasure. I am really doing my best to improve learning for you and cut down the noise as much as possible.

@hiwibaba22 Ай бұрын

Because of Dr Can all of us are running around using phrases like "orientation phase", "cognitive overload", "confirmation bias", and "Einstellung effect".... Better than the usual chess terminology ("Knight takes pawn"), right folks? 😮

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

You are a great student will full repertoire of Dr. Can vocabulary. Just make sure you don't use "Einstellung Effect" in daily life.

@babakmahmid Ай бұрын

An ingenious method of training chess visualisation & calculation! Thank you!

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

You're very welcome!

@emuschablabla1488 Ай бұрын

I love your deep thinking and explanations, very interesting. Thanks

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Lovely comment, thank you!

@GaryWalters-tk2lp Ай бұрын

Great to see how you come up with these positions and its amazing how many resource there are with slight differences in a position, I can imagine how thorough you have to be to get the precise version your looking for to emphasise just the main goal your trying to achieve , nice to see a behind the scenes look at what you do aswell 👍

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Thank you, Gary. I just wanted to show how much work is going on behind the scenes.

@andrejennings1577 Ай бұрын

😂 Good afternoon all, he had me laughing about the first puzzle...I'm giving him my thanks once again. I'm a casual. I've purchased all of his courses and have elevated my chess level, I love the challenge and wish I would've started years ago...THANK YOU so much for your approach in teaching you are the BEST...CM Can ❤

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

:)❤️ This is so nice to see, thank you so much! Glad that I made you laugh :) So motivating to hear your kind thoughts on the channel.

@fnbwski8610 Ай бұрын

As always Hocam, you are giving unique and helpful tips.

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

❤

@omamoka63 Ай бұрын

The Art of Creating Puzzles.❤

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

❤️

@MarkPersoonlijk Ай бұрын

Hahaha, that's the right title for this one. Love it!

@sincity7890 Ай бұрын

so much effort and hard work you put in this project , if chess cabala goes after you for sharing forbidden knowledge we got your back , great job Doc you can be proud of your selfe 👏👏👏

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Doing it all for your learning!

@MarkPersoonlijk Ай бұрын

An unique video about the creating of teaching materials! I knew that good material takes time to create. Still, i underestimated the time to tweak a position after finding it. And great to hear from Dan Heisman again 😀 So, the deletion aspect is important in creating insightful puzzles. And that's how I sometimes try to get chess principles even more into my head. If I found the right solution for a puzzle, then I try to think how the principle in that position wouldn't work anymore by changing one piece for example. This way I try to extract the essence, getting the depth of what's really going on. (And that doesn't work every time of course.) The effort and time you put in is a lot. And sometimes a puzzle can be solved in 10 seconds for example. It might seem that for just 10 seconds you wasted 30/60/120 minutes or something. But I imagine an fictional situation of just 1000 people doing that puzzle. That takes people almost 3 hours in total, IF they would be that quick and if it were just 1000 people. In other words: the effort and time you spend is well worth for so many people! I hope you keep on creating learning materials for us for ever! 💪

@greatdanelegend7001 14 күн бұрын

This was very interesting! I solved position 2 and 3 but in the first position I didn't spot the knight as a potential problem at all. I just thought it was weird that someone wouldn't take with the queen in that situation so I knew it had to be Kxd2 based on that. But I thought the puzzle had something to do with the queen coming to a5, and I excluded the knight as having anything to do with that when I saw that it was defended. Very interesting. Crazy how a knight can just get trapped like that in the center of the board, you'd normally think they're good there

@Dr.CansClinic 14 күн бұрын

Thank you so much! Yes, that is a counterintuitive pattern. The knight on e5 looked very strong indeed. It takes a good eye to see that piece as potentially trappable.

@crnogorskoprimorje Ай бұрын

Hi, do you have course on chessable about positional or strategic moves? your way of explanation is exceptional!

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Thank you so much! I published 6 courses on strategy.

@kevinfoley7379 Ай бұрын

I almost weep that all I can afford to give you is a dollar, and that would be an insult to you. You deserve so much better. Looking forward to seeing how you land this out-of-control (?) jet.

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Thank you for your kind words, Kevin. The jet only has 15K subscribers, so I don't think it is out of control yet :)

@kevinfoley7379 Ай бұрын

@@Dr.CansClinic I meant the video Puzzle Creation jet.

@raajeshchess Ай бұрын

In Nimzo Indian Defense/Queen's Indian Defense the move d5 by Black feels to me like a space taking and square controlling move rather than a break move (Dan Heisman's vocabulary). What is your opinion on this?

@Martin_Neal Ай бұрын

Timestamp 2:58 ... Knight isn't safe, is it?

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

I believe we can even go Qxg7 fxe5 Qxe5+ in that position. Or perhaps avoid Qf7+ alltogether.

@perteadsf4914 Ай бұрын

That thumbnail really freaks me out. I count sixteen arrows and yet none of them are legal moves getting out of the check. Also, a Knight can apparently move horizontally now.

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

That represents the chaos! Honestly, I don't spend too much time on the thumbnails and let the designer create it. Perhaps I should!

@MarkPersoonlijk Ай бұрын

Hahaha, usually I don't study the thumbnails. But because of your comment I did. Yeah, amazing all those arrows! But I think these arrows are exactly communicating the essence of the video. Dr. Can needs to see if one pawn or piece needs to relocated to get the puzzle clean and exactly to the point 😀

@dimebagdonny Ай бұрын

7:12 Puzzle 2. The non-tweaked version. This is exactly what I struggle with. I tried to solve it on my own and I incorrectly jumped to the conclusion that bxc4 was clearly correct for the same reasons mentioned in the video. Puzzles like this take you way too deep down the rabbit hole. Then the brain freezes up. No more RAM. Cognitive overload. To me, it looks like academic dishonesty to tout such puzzles as suitable for beginner to intermediate level players.

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Thank you. I am really doing my best to cut down on noise and reduce extrinsic cognitive load, which hinders learning. That takes a long time but I think that is the responsibility of a good author.

@dimebagdonny Ай бұрын

@@Dr.CansClinic I noticed the difference immediately in these puzzles of yours. Those things have definitely hindered my learning for many years. Too many chess puzzles having too many variations and too little clarity. Keep up the good work!

@dimebagdonny Ай бұрын

@Dr.CansClinic Dr Can, Are you going to be using beta testers for your upcoming Chessable Blunder Check Course? If you are, I think I'd be a good fit (given both my chess rapid rating around 1500 and professional background doing Sofware Development and Software Testing).

@Dr.CansClinic Ай бұрын

Thanks for asking! Please contact me on chesscom or lichess and we take it from there. My usernames in both platforms are provided in my video descriptions.