I hate this new puzzle system.

DoYouLikeCurry · 2025-10-12T02:47:35-07:00

I had just come to terms with chess.com choosing the same day I hit 2900 puzzles for changing the entire rating system, forever robbing me of the milestone. I’d come to terms with the sudden dip on the rating graph ruining my stats.What I’m frustrated about is how much worse the disparity between co

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Martin_Stahl

Feb 8, 2026

#61

turnoffthefaucet wrote:

I often hit 1800+ blitz on chesstempo, and the chess.com problems I’m getting at 2200 are similar in difficulty. I wish this site would compress the difference between a successful and a failed attempt. (It’s disheartening to lose 13 points on a puzzle.) This site is similar to lichess in that respect, though I do think the puzzles here are a little higher quality. I was hoping the developers had copied chesstempo’s rating system, and I’m disappointed they didn’t.

Change your puzzle Difficulty setting. On Extra Hard I get 7-9 on most puzzles, loss and gain.