My Puzzles Rating Dropped

I don't see it this way. It would only be unfair if only your rating changed. Their value is in large part relative the ratings were greatly inflated. This is a welcome change that actually may bring more meaning to the rating. That said, it's possible they may continue to be inflated.

Actually, I've been noticing that (yes, even though my rating went down ~500 elo) you lose significantly less when you miss a puzzle. Now it's an even 5 - 7 gain/loss from what I've seen. I think the rating might be based on a 100 - 2000 scale now rather than the 100 - 5000 that caused the inflation aforementioned in chess.com's article.

It's not a big thing is it, if it's everybody? I just came here to see if it had been discussed. And that rating was inflated, I don't think I can play on GM-level anyways, haha.

Based on how low the amount of point increase each success is from solving puzzles, it may be more like how your real game rating could be. The one thing I always wanted was my puzzle rating to be a good indicator of how good I could be at solving problems in a real game. If this new system does that, it's appreciated mightily.

I hope so. I feel that as long as grinding very easy puzzles does not remain as a plausible option this may be a good indicator.

My puzzle rating just dropped more than 1000 points.

Can anyone tell me what happened?! My puzzle rating dropped more than 1 000 points!!

My puzzle score went from ~2960 to ~1960 overnight, and I never even did a puzzle, except in my dreams. I think sometime around the middle of August another change to the puzzle algorithm was implemented as well, but I am not sure. Prior to that time, I was stuck with a puzzle score of around 2500. The higher my score went, the more difficult the puzzles I was given, sometimes as high as 3500. I would fail these more difficult puzzles, so my score remained around 2500. Then in the last month or two, no longer are the more difficult puzzles given, as my score increases. So now, even though I have a puzzle score of ~3000, the puzzle engine keeps feeding me puzzles that are <2000, which given enough time, I can usually get correctly. Hence my Puzzle rating of >3000, which in no way reflects my actual ELO, which is definitely <1500.

For anyone wanting to know why their puzzle rating dropped, click on 'Support' at the bottom left, type in 'Puzzle Rating Drop', then view the most recent (top) article that explains everything.

I think it's not a bug but intended to fix the problem of hyperinflation of puzzle rating, nearly all of the puzzle players have very high puzzle rating but relatively lower elo.

Me too. Dropped about 900 points. Global ranking stayed about the same though

Hopefully, the new rating system will be better

Tbh please don't see ratings too important, sure there's fame, but the real point of puzzle is to train you tactics, which you can use the improve your elo.

Exact thing just happened to me. 1600-1302.

I guess chess.com does these kind of things because they like us to have the feeling we are improving ...

The article explains why. Most members didn't see a rating increase unless they were pretty low

i was close to 2700 and was wondering why I am now a 1600 chess.com please could my rating come back