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1. Used to be able to skip puzzles that I didn't find interesting, now it resumes with the last one even after refreshing/logging in again. I didn't do this to artificially inflate rating by looking for easy ones, I did it because I am more interested in certain themes, like endgames, mating nets, pawn promotion, zugzwang..etc, in fact I probably got more wrong doing this because some of them are harder. But now I can't do that anymore.

2. Suggest theme doesn't seem to work. I checked a good 5 or 10 preferred themes multiple times and it doesn't seem to save it.

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https://www.chess.com/puzzles/problem/2227916

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EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:

Another absurd puzzle where it says an equally good move is wrong. It doesn't matter whether the queen goes to h3 or h4 to threaten mate. En passant still happens and if anything Qh3 keeps pressure on the rook on c8. Even went to analysis and it gives both a 2.1 or 2.2 advantage at the end. What did I lose 9 points for?

Stockfish doesn't agree

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That picture is the site analysis.

As to your skipping, puzzles, I can't say. I never have tried skipping but if it used to work then it was probably changed on purpose.

For themes, I'm not sure on that but I think that is eventually going away as there were too many issues with themes being suggested that were inaccurate or not pertinent to the puzzle.

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EndgameEnthusiast2357 wrote:

I opened the site analysis myself, and played through the moves. When it got to the Qh4/Qh3 move, it only gave a .1 or .2 advantage difference between them. Note the puzzle begins with black playing kh8 first and white sacrificing bishop g7 is the first move.

Well due to not being able to skip boring looking puzzles and the themes not saving I've now dropped 300 points. Used to be over 3200 now am an under 3000 noob, can't believe this.

The analysis screenshot is at the move where Qh4 and Qh3 are the options. Qh3 is winning for black.