Can there be more than 1 solution to a puzzle?

Kinda makes you wonder how he handles real life problems.

If there is more than one solution for a puzzle then it should be bug reported.

Clearly you two have it all figured out.  Good and chess.  Well done totally shining examples of how to constructively engage with a learner.  Bet you're fun at parties.

Please tell me neither of you are coaches or teachers, as I'd really pity your students.

First thing Monday morning, I'm telling my class its either perfection or they're gonna fail.  There is no 'good' anymore.  You either achieve the best, or its marked down.  Great strategy...

You are not a teacher, you are a troll.

Here is a tactic i got "wrong"  Did i whine and complain? No.  Did i start about how "unfair" this is? No.  Did i lose it over those precious online rating points? No.  Did this somehow cripple me emotionally?  No.   Did i shoot off an email to chess.com asking that this be overturned, and ask for my rating points back?  No.  I learned from it.

I'm not 'whining', 'complaining' nor 'emotionally crippled'.  I'm just saying that if you get a problem/exam/puzzle/issue and get it 95% correct, you should not received -34 as a score.

I'm not asking for +732 or some nonsense.  Even achieving no points would be fine if not perfect.  I'd learn and improve.  Being marked down for being 'good', just not 'best' is wrong.

You two have fun.  This is clearly something you're both good at.  Shame that isn't translating into anything positive.

Just both nasty pieces of work that I'm no longer responding to.  Horrible people.

"I'm just saying that if you get a problem/exam/puzzle/issue and get it 95% correct..."

Lets take your theory here and apply it to hospitals.  You deliver babies, and you "only" drop 5 out of every 100 babies you deliver.  Do you still think you should be rewarded?

Lets hope he is not a pilot instructor..."it's ok if you crash 5 times out of 100 landings"

How about of we can get 95% of an airplane to properly work?

You gonna buy a ticket and fly on it?

What about being satisfied with 95% of your heart working properly?

LOL...Amen brother!

Here's another one for ya...

NASA needs you to send up the next set of code for the newest Mars Rover.  Im sure they will be happy if 95% of the code is right. 

Got another one!

I am going to make sure that San Bernadino County gets 95% of the equipment they paid for.  That should be good enough.

This is the last response you'll get from me so enjoy. 

Chess is a GAME.

Hopefully you both actually recognise this, and the MASSIVE difference between this fact and actual real life and death type scenarios involving hospitals, police, fire-fighters, pilots of aircraft, soldiers on a battlefield, NASA and contestants on some random reality show... (perhaps you can't though!).

If you sit an exam at uni and get 95% of it right, you don't get negative marks. THAT is the point.

Chess is a GAME.  Its not real life.  Its not that important.  Its not life and death.

You two are nasty, horrid, negative people who clearly need to get a life.

End of.  Bye.

" Its not that important. "

And apparently it is...

"Just both nasty pieces of work that I'm no longer responding to."

And that wasn't true either...

Your thoughts actually have merit, and some tactics trainers do exactly what you say.  Some of these harassers posting here are known to be exactly that, and if posting simple minded and absurd analogies make them feel "real smart" then don't let that bother you.  

So yeah, points could be awarded at different levels for the quality of the move.  This is done to an extent here.  Another option is to allow multiple tries on puzzle with decreasing points as you use more tries.  Other "real" tactics trainers on real chess programs and web sites use this model.  Now all these "rugged individualists" (HAHAHA!!!) will call anyone who thinks that is a good idea a "snowflake".  It isn't surprising that they seem to be reading from the same playbook, as they have been well trained in how to think.  

But anyway, my opinion is that it doesn't matter one bit how the points are given.  The value of the puzzle is in what it can teach you!  I don't worry about the points or the time to solve.  Ignore the points and just try to understand the position and learn from the puzzles.    

Hey.  Thanks for your constructive and intelligent comments.  I have no issue with mega points being awarded for 'the best', small number of points awarded for 'good', zero points for 'incorrect' and even 'negative points' for a total mega fail of a move lol.  My issue was negative points for a 'good' response, albeit not the best.

Negative peeps that think they're the biz are just trolling, harassing sados that need to get a life.  I'll be ignoring these non-entities going forward.  As for Chess however, I'll keep at it in terms of play, puzzles and learning more about openings.  Doing not bad for a newbie if I say so myself lol.

Its just a game afterall, and despite being a good one, there are many others. 

Good to know that not everyone on this forum is a downer on newbies.  If you ever what to play, just hit me up for a game.  If I'm Black I'm not so good, White I'm a killer lol...

Have a good weekend

IMO Chessable solves this with alternative moves, where if you get an alternative, you still need to find the best move afterwards and you don't get points until you do. After taking a break from the tactics trainer here and coming back, that's something I'd like them to implement. The problem I have with the current way is it encourages me to spend way longer than I would in an actual game calculating and self doubting because I know in any one position there is only one accepted move, yet in a real game tactical sequences can have many favourable outcomes. That and the computer generated nature of the opponents responses makes me doubt how applicable grinding tactics here is to improving at the game itself. At least with more hand selected puzzle sets curators can pick more 'human' responses, but the tactics trainer here feels like I'm playing with an alien sometimes.