I stop my 2 years diamond. The answer "the site no longer wanted to maintain" does not sound professional.
The Old Lessons are gone and so is my 10 year Diamond membership
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Those old lessons and associated rating system was the backbone of my chess carrier. Just because of that I won many prizes in chess tournaments.
Hints were also designed in such a smart way that it wouldn't reveal the whole solution at once. Even after getting hint, I had to struggle& work hard to solve the puzzle. This 'struggle' turned me into a very lethal player, even though my rating was low.
New lessons have following cons:
1- They have broken it in to too short small small puzzles. It has become very easy to solve.
2- no 'punishment' for wrong answers. Old lessons' fasinating rating system would loose you rating points for wrong answers, which made me very focused and precised while solving.
3- using hint option more than once would also cost rating points, so it gradually turned me into a self-dependent solver with positional, tactical & strategical skills, which is a real life situation over the board. ( I mean, during the tournaments there is no one to give you a hint. you have to win it on your own).
So yes, please restore the old lessons.
gaurav_knight wrote:
Those old lessons and associated rating system was the backbone of my chess carrier.
And then it took you 3 years to realize that they are gone?
Eric has brought back over 300 of the old text lessons and placed them in the Masters section. Thanks Eric!