Chess puzzle question

Why is it in some Puzzles, the best move sometimes is to put the King in check, where, in the next turn that piece will get taken without any cover from another piece on the board? Sometimes I see a better choice like to trade your Queen for their Queen, but that is the wrong move and just putting the King in check for 1 turn before that piece is taken- is the better move??

I have also see some high ranked games on YT where a player will put the king in check for 1 turn and their piece is taken. Although perhaps they were merely trading it for another important piece. I cant recall. But at the time, it didn't make sense to me, so it might of not been a mere trading move.

"Sometimes I see a better choice like to trade your Queen for their Queen, but that is the wrong move"

Looks like you have a bit of rethinking to do. ;)

And you seem to be referring to sacrifices...one of the more appealing aspects of the game.

No offense, but you are also a 1072 rated puzzle player for that reason

Thanks for everyones replies. Yes i am a low rate puzzle player. I know that.

Still trying to understand for the sake of learning. It would be neat if it was possible to have a code to refer to a puzzle directly?
Anyway I just did a puzzle where each side has 6 material pieces left, playing as black with white still having a queen. The solution was to put the King into check with the rook, but that rook has no cover by another piece. So next turn the King would just take the rook, leaving black with only two bishops and one pawn left (besides the King of course).

I just thought at this stage of the game losing a piece for no reason wouldn't be a good solution. But of course im not an expert and wanting to understand. Ideally having a visual reference would help, to see the whole picture. But i tend to lose puzzles when they are like this.

They do have individual codes (just copy & paste the address bar).

@Haymarket said in #7:
> @MrPushwood normally that is just lichess.org/training. Once the puzzle is solved, you can click on the icon telling how many points you got/lost (for example +16) which brings you to the individual url of that puzzle.
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> @Daza99 normally the explanation is that the player doesn't notice something. Once the puzzle has been solved, activate stockfish, reverse the moves and sf will tell you what follows from the moves you have in mind.

Thank you for that tip. I just tried it, works great. Very valuable tool for learning with the puzzles/training.

@Haymarket said in #7:
> @MrPushwood normally the url is just lichess.org/training. Once the puzzle is solved, you can click on the icon telling how many points you got/lost (for example +16) which brings you to the individual url of that puzzle.
He did not mean that, MrPushWood meant the puzzle code of the particular puzzle that Daza99 said in #5.
For example, here is a link of a puzzle I played today:-lichess.org/training/Q0B36
You can see at the end that there is a puzzle code written to specify each puzzle found by lichess.
At the top right hand side there is the puzzle code, the rating of the puzzle, and how many times it is played in the games of lichess.

Simple