>>16704435 (OP)update: I am now actually seeing the chess board on puzzles, as in I'm getting a sense of awareness of where pieces are, as if the chess board is a chess board unlike when I used to look at it like a checkered picture barely recognizable as a chessboard with moveable pieces that I could barely comprehend without giving some thought first.
Now I don't need to think to recognize/see a chess board on my screenerino.