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nitekram
nitekram
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Feb 14, 2014
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#1

Have a question that has been bugging me for a while. Why when solving a daily puzzle, you answer the question correctly, you get minus points? Is there a way to know, how much the puzzel is worth, what rating the puzzel is worth, a count down of the points you are losing?

Thanks for anyones help

tooWEAKtooSL0W
tooWEAKtooSL0W
Feb 14, 2014
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#2

By "daily puzzle", I assume you mean Tactics trainer. The longer you spend solving the problem, the fewer points you get (and yes, you can even lose points if you take too long). Below the board there should be a timer that shows how much time you have left.

baddogno
baddogno
Feb 14, 2014
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#3

But not for much longer!  Staff has recently posted that in the upcoming all new V3 of chess.com you will never lose points for getting a correct answer. Let me go find a link:

  • Smile Be it known (in the interest of full transparency), that the changes made in December (see post #196) are still in effect: The server is preferring tactics in a range from 60 points higher to 40 points lower than your current rating.

    To date, although we have not changed the scoring logic, this change to tactics selection alone would generally reduce the size of ratings swing, whether you get a given problem correct or incorrect. (In other words, you're not going to see many ratings changes of +/- 22 if the problem's rating is proximate to your own.)

    So that's where we are today...

    However, with the advent of V3 later this year, we will be making another change to tactics logic (scoring this time) that we think most people will like (based on a recent survey). Here's what that will entail:

    - Percentile score remains at 100% until the player uses up half of the problem's average time-to-solve. (This is an extension.)

    - From that point on, the score drops steadily, reaching 50% at twice the average time-to-solve. At that point (a theoretical "draw" vs the tactic), the score stops dropping based on time. (It currently does this only after reaching 20%.)

    - Any time after that, if the player solves the tactic correctly, the server will assess whether the player should get any points for a 50% score (i.e. if the tactic is rated higher than the player). If that's the case, then the player gets those rating points. In all other cases, the player's rating does not change. A player's rating will never drop as a result of correctly solving a tactic.

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