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by Tommah 877 days ago
IIRC, Reinfeld's book groups the positions by theme. If you click the dice, it will show you a random position from the set, so that should give you a different theme most of the time.
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Even doing it randomly, I found the content is extremely heavy on "play the most forcing move, ideally sacrificing the strongest piece possible with check". It took me 10+ problems to find one where this didn't apply (#659).

This would go down well on Reddit, where that style of puzzle is almost the only one appreciated. And it's a good way to quickly drill a few checkmate themes. But for chess improvement I would recommend a more general tactics trainer. IMO Chesstempo cracked the problem of automatically generating and rating interesting problems, but if you find the interface there too dated, lichess or chess.com have a reasonable second-best.

Is the goal to give players an engaging experience, or guide them through specific chess material?

I had a similar experience to the person above - after a few puzzles where the first move is the same I wasn't interest in doing more. I also don't want a random puzzle - generally puzzle progression goes from easy to hard - will random just give me a really hard one?

If you are set on keeping the order of _1001 Ways to Checkmate_, maybe giving some context on which chapter the user is on would be nice (Queen Sac, Forks). Otherwise as a user, if I don't want to do some unknown amount of queen sac puzzles over and over then I'm just going to bounce.