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by Someone 994 days ago
If I know a problem is “find the fork”, im in a complete different mindset from “find the best move”.

Because of that I doubt doing problems of the former kind will help seeing forks much when going back to “find the best move” type problems.
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danmaz74 993 days ago
The main way to improve at solving tactical puzzles - and at seeing tactical opportunities/threats in games - is to develop pattern recognition for the many tactical themes there are. Training on specific themes for some time is a very powerful way to do so. I'm experimenting with this approach on BraiMax Chess and results from users are very good - I'll publish some stats as soon as I get enough data.
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pests 994 days ago
> “find the best move”

Before you can do that, you need to understand the moves you can make and their implications. I think identifying forks fit here.

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