"Easy"...

That seems to be the standard response to daily puzzles. More often then not, people responding with that have really low ratings.. I don't understand. If it was so easy, why is your rating 1100?

Perhaps, I'm bitter because I suck at puzzles.

Maybe they have tried every single possible move until they got the solution and think they've solved the puzzle. I think it should be allowed for everyone on Sundays though, I would believe a 500 rated player who says Sunday puzzles are easy.

Yea. I'm just playing around, but I do find it really funny.

I guess I just find humor in..

"Easy!"

you should look at their tactics rating not their online chess rating

Could not "Easy!" be interpreted as: "Go easy - this puzzle is way too hard!"

it's much easier to find the tactic when you're told it exists.  most peoples tactical awareness lags behind their execution.

true true

A new feature that indicates how many times you got it wrong would alleviate this problem, and subsequently make people who got it wrong 15 times and posted easy look foolish.

akibathepenquin makes an astute observation: tactics problems where substantial gain is guaranteed as the premise to working the problem are FAR easier to solve than FINDING the same over the board, and even more so than GENERATING the opportunity for them to arise. 

I think there should be 3 forums categories for puzzles, one with 2 or less moves that gives the opportunity to all new inexperienced players a crack at the puzzle and claim not only a win but a true deep satisfaction to have resolved the Sphynx chess enigma, next, puzzles with 4 or less moves for strong to very strong players, and finally puzzles with 5 or more moves, which I can seldom solve the first time, I have only solved one puzzle in 5 moves the first time.

Food for thought for the chess.com group and all of the participants that try to solve puzzles.

Let's hear your opinion on this.

i enjoy these puzzles because they help prepare u for actual game situations when otherwise, u dont have the luxury of time. here there is no pressure, u can sit, look, analyze before making a move. at times i have solved puzzles making one or no mistakes and said "easy" but then i remember i just spent 30 minutes trying to solve the puzzle

But its fun. And Easy!

w00t i can still say "Easy"! In fact, i should say, "Super Easy!"

Try the tactics trainer - the rated approach covers all skill levels and, because it doesn't tell you what you should be looking for (fork, pin, discovered attack etc.), it is as close as you can get to trying to find tactics in a real game. I didn't see your name under the player list, so I guess you haven't tried it.

uhuh

daily puzzle comments are the worst

It is much easier to find a tactic in a puzzle than it is in a game. That is why.

I think they just mean it's easy to type "easy."  At least they're not putting "first" (or fifth or sixth or...).

My favorites though are the ones who type "easy" when the problem's already been busted by earlier posters in the thread!  Apparently ignorance truly is...easy.

I was not clear in my statement.

I meant when daily puzzles are posted they should be categorized in the 3 groups I suggested.

As far as the tactics trainer is concerned there are much better tools available.

This is mostly aimed at new xcomers and people of less than say 2000 rating on this site, a lot of valuable information but hardly anything new to me. yes a few but not worth spending my time to find the one in a 100 or 1000 pearls.

It seems to me that the Sunday puzzles are much easier (relative term) than all the other days.....this must be intentional.... I wonder why??