What's Going On with Chess.com Puzzles?

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Avatar of Lady_of_Valinor

All of a sudden I am no longer getting high rated puzzles. I didn't change my settings but now I'm getting nothing over 2200 where before I would get some over 3000 rated.

Are they trying to suck up to people by allowing them to get really high rated at puzzles? Soon everyone will be 10k with their Puzzle Rating and think they are Super-GM level.

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
Lady_of_Valinor wrote:

All of a sudden I am no longer getting high rated puzzles. I didn't change my settings but now I'm getting nothing over 2200 where before I would get some over 3000 rated.

Are they trying to suck up to people by allowing them to get really high rated at puzzles? Soon everyone will be 10k with their Puzzle Rating and think they are Super-GM level.

There's a new puzzle Difficulty setting. Try changing the level to Hard or Extra Hard

In addition, the site has re-rated all the puzzles on the backend and the algorithm is using those ratings to present and rate the puzzles. The UI shows the old ratings so you can't rely on those.

You'll also likely see lower rated puzzles, because of the new ratings, on average, but the Extra Hard setting is going to grind the best results for now.

Avatar of Wrstknightmare6348

just to add something to this post….i have my puzzle difficulty on extra hard, and still don’t see crazy high rated puzzles for the most part.