puzzles past 2k rating

after you get past 2k rating the puzzles become painfully vague and oppressive. it's also just needlessly brutal that you get +4 for a correct puzzle and -16 for getting 1 move of a 7 part puzzle wrong, and the move you missed was an interchangeable part of a larger trade. Captured their queen, mate in 2? sorry -16, mega blunder! you had mate in 1! sure, your move also results in a win but you'll need 4 correct 7 move puzzles to win back the rating you just lost! whatever it's just a meaningless number but it would be nice if correct moves were rewarded similarly to wrong moves given the ambiguity of the advanced puzzles. in the meantime I will cling to the fact that i once got to 2180 before falling back to 1900 lol 🥲

Wow, over 2000 puzzles rating is amazing for having a rapid rating currently in the 900s. Yes, chess.com puzzles are a bit inflated to game ratings by a few hundred points, but your puzzle ability is amazing!

Yeah, puzzles get much tougher once you get that high. However, it also becomes a little more sustainable when you learn more chess overall and increase your general chess understanding. If your tactical ability is this high, then something else must be holding back your game ratings; with a puzzles rating over 2100, I'd estimate the player's game ratings are around 1600 or so (but obviously chess ability in an entire game is much more than just tactical ability).

Have you learned about chess opening principles yet? Most people learn them before they get to 1200 (and usually before they get to 1000), but I learned them embarrassingly late (I didn't formally learn "opening principles" until I was already over 1500 chess.com rating). https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again What about studying basic checkmates and basic theoretical endgames such as King + pawn vs King (when it is winning as well as when drawn with best defense), or King + Queen vs King checkmate, or King + Rook vs King checkmate.