edited, sorry ^^
I'm going to say it...I hate chess.com's puzzles
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Agree 100%, I actually cancelled my paid membership I er these stupid puzzles. I suggest you all do the same. I've been stuck at 2100-2300 rating for 6 months with no progress. These are retarded and I infuriating. No point. No value. And I love when you get a puzzle correct and are rewarded 5 points but then get one puzzle wrong and -16 points. F you! I'm done with Chess com. Many of the players are just hacks too, cheating. Goodbye.
Feb 18, 2025
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jmc_baseball wrote:
Agree 100%, I actually cancelled my paid membership I er these stupid puzzles. I suggest you all do the same. I've been stuck at 2100-2300 rating for 6 months with no progress. These are retarded and I infuriating. No point. No value. And I love when you get a puzzle correct and are rewarded 5 points but then get one puzzle wrong and -16 points. F you! I'm done with Chess com. Many of the players are just hacks too, cheating. Goodbye.
You have done a ton of puzzles in the last year. 9600 puzzles in 6 months. That is an average of 50 per day.
Your puzzle rating reached 2399 just ten days ago.
But it has fallen off since then. The last two puzzles you missed were one movers.
It seems likely you need a break.
puzzles are excellent chess training:
between puzzle rush & puzzles i've had 14,141 attempts. the problem here with people weighing in with virtually no experience is that they haven't the foggiest clue of what they are talking about.
my puzzle pbs are 3600 & 72 on survival... the harder puzzles on this site (3500+) are completely different from the easier ones; much harder to logically work through & tremendously beneficial for your general chess skill in myriad ways.
the easier puzzles are still valuable for pattern-recognition purposes, but the main value of solving all puzzles comes from realizing that there is always one correct solution to be found & patiently searching for the answer;
playing your games as a string of hard-fought battles to find the right moves in every position cannot fail to improve your results.
...unless you're playing bullet or blitz, in which case the pattern inundation that puzzle rush provides is invaluable for strengthening your ability to come up with creative tactical solutions on the fly.
As you suggest, the object of blitz isn't to find the right move in every situation, in a way that can be judged by a Bearded Wonder who repeatedly tells you that "this move overlooks an opportunity to trade pieces". He doesn't even know that a pawn isn't a piece. The same one who tells you "this isn't the right idea", when you're playing a book move that you partiularly like. He can't be taken seriously and neither can the puzzles. I did maybe 10 of them, a dozen years since but only one on my present account. They didn't suit me, because chess is a game where you improve as you find more tactical ideas which suit your ability level at any given time. Treating them as old fashioned chess puzzles, where you have to get the mate in the least number of moves, is wrong, because it penalises winning solutions. As the man said; negative learning.
I prefer Daily 3-day for learning tactics.
A traditional chess puzzle is a very different thing from a game.