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Puzzles to prevent blunders

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Intrincantation

Does anyone know of any place with a puzzle feature that can prevent blunders? After all, most games are not decided by a brilliant move by rather by  an awful one.

I think it would not be terribly difficult to design a puzzle scraper that looks through all games and finds positions directly before a player made an awful move despite several good alternatives being available, and then the puzzle can just be 'good job not making a terrible move'. There are a lot of situations where everybody watching a game comes up with the same terrible move so I don't think it's as dumb as it might seem at first. Though they might all be 1-move puzzles.

borovicka75
Puzzle “white to move and not to blunder?” Maybe next 1st April
Takadrenaline

From my experience, the puzzles have been training me to avoid blunders.

The puzzles are typically sharp positions where a wrong move is a blunder. Such as your move missing a checkmate, which is certainly a blunder. Or a wrong capture order resulting in your being a minor piece down. Or thinking that the end position of a line is quiescent, when, in fact, the opponent has a zwischenzug, and you lose a rook. Those are all blunders, that the puzzles help train you out of, I think.