Generate Puzzles

Pawn au Chocolat can automatically generate tactical puzzles from your own games. This feature transforms your blunders and missed tactics into personalised training exercises.

How It Works

The puzzle generation system analyses your games to identify positions where:

  • You made a significant mistake (blunder or mistake) that could have been punished
  • You missed a tactical opportunity that would have given a decisive advantage
  • A critical moment existed where the correct move required precise calculation

Generating Puzzles

To generate puzzles from your games:

  1. First, analyse your game using the Analysis feature
  2. Open the game with completed analysis
  3. Click the "Generate Puzzles" button in the toolbar
  4. Configure puzzle generation settings
  5. Review and save the generated puzzles to your puzzle database

Configuration Options

Minimum Evaluation Swing

The minimum centipawn difference required between the played move and the best move for a position to be considered puzzle-worthy. Higher values produce fewer but more significant puzzles.

Include Opponent Mistakes

When enabled, puzzles will also be generated from positions where your opponent made mistakes. This creates "punishment" puzzles that test your ability to capitalise on errors.

Puzzle Depth

Controls how many moves deep the puzzle solution should extend. Deeper puzzles are more challenging but also require more precise play to solve correctly.

Benefits of Custom Puzzles

Personalised Training

Puzzles based on your actual weaknesses target the specific areas where you need improvement.

Pattern Recognition

Repeatedly solving puzzles from similar positions helps build pattern recognition for your typical game situations.

Active Recall

Re-encountering positions from your own games reinforces learning through active recall of past mistakes.

Progress Tracking

Track your improvement over time by revisiting puzzles from older games to see if you now find the correct moves.