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anthon2010

https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/1485002 there are 2 mates on the last move, and I picked the wrong one, and it said I got it wrong! Please help.

Virus-Hawk

bug

Alramech
anthon2010 wrote:

https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/1485002 there are 2 mates on the last move, and I picked the wrong one, and it said I got it wrong! Please help.

The same puzzle was posted in this forum: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/site-feedback/apparently-i-played-the-wrong-mate-in-1

Report the puzzle: https://support.chess.com/article/1223-how-do-i-report-a-bad-puzzle

anthon2010

I just reported it

plux

It's not a "bug", it is an incorrect puzzle. There is a "report puzzle" button with every puzzle that gets displayed -- that's how you report this sort of thing. Not through the beta chess.com forums.

anthon2010

Why doesn't chess.com make puzzles with 2 or 3 answers?

plux
anthon2010 wrote:

Why doesn't chess.com make puzzles with 2 or 3 answers?

Because, usually, even if there are multiple answers, one is better than the other.

In the rare instance where there are two completely equal moves (ie 2 mates-in-one) these are supposed to get reported. They're exceptionally rare given the overall number of puzzles out there, I've only seen it come up a few times in many thousands of puzzles. But that's just my own experience... I'm pretty sure it affects fewer than one in a thousand puzzles. I've done >10k and only seen it 2 or 3 times.... But maybe that depends some on the level of puzzles one is seeing, thats possible...

 

anthon2010

Also, pending puzzle are the ones that are incorrect, are very hard, or very easy

plux
anthon2010 wrote:

Also, pending puzzle are the ones that are incorrect, are very hard, or very easy

Pending puzzles are  brand new without sufficient people having given it a try. "Untested" puzzles might be a better term.

Bb8fan1

I also got a 2 different mates puzzle recently, and picked the wrong one. There is a button to report that puzzle, and you can just click that.

PRANAVB1312

Seriously a bug

Bb8fan1
PRANAVB1312 wrote:

Seriously a bug

It's not a bug. It's just that the puzzle is wrong. Nothing about this is a bug.

Martin_Stahl

Not a bug to use the beta to report.

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