Puzzle Rating Change

ratings would be okay if the puzzles weren't so awful.

a puzzle this morning was nuts. yeah I saw the "brilliant" false bishop sac that the puzzle wanted, but the take wasn't forced, black had another move. so i played a developing move instead and got dinged 8 points. and i couldn't play out the other move to see what was wrong with it, and i also couldn't go back for a hint to see why the script thought the "brilliant" bishop sac was so brilliant. irritated me so thoroughly that i intentionally threw my other two free puzzles.

i keep trying every morning to not hate this nutty system. i guess i'll keep at it. it'll take me a month to restore my rating now.

but i'm not bitter. lol

The first move you make is always going to be the best, regardless of the reply. Sometimes, the reason of the puzzle is to present a pattern.

You should be able to use the analysis option after to see why that's the best

thanks Mr Stahl.

i think as a nonpaying member I don't get much for analysis but i'll look again next time.

maybe I need to be on the browser. I use the phone app out of habit. thanks again

Why does it matter that there is a difference in puzzle rating and normal chess rating?

Gurjot214: "Why does it matter that there is a difference in puzzle rating and normal chess rating?"

The closer they align, the more useful it is as a measure. Many of us practice for the most part with bots and puzzles. The new system is more useful as a guide. Most of my losses to bots are due to easily avoidable blunders, failure to correctly assess the whole board. I suspect for most beginners it is the same. i'll get more comfortable with playing against human strangers when i reduce those easy errors. rating alignment is a good yardstick.

at lichess i'm about 2100 on puzzles. here much lower because the system itself is irritating. but at least now my puzzle rating here is more rational, closer to lichess rating, i think i could break 2000 here with more patience. and the two ratings though still somewhat inflated are now closer to my over the board strength (around 1600).

Mine dropped from 3400-3500 to 1900, and now I started slowly beginning to 2000.

But I don't know why you are caring about the rating.It's not like if you are over 3000 you get a free admission to Stanford.

so true #104, it is only useful for personal assessment and alignment to real life facilitates that.

i wish sites like this would normalize ALL ratings to align with FIDE OTB. it would be easy enough to do. but they'd probably offend too many members who use the ratings to stroke their egos.

As far as I can tell most of the people who like the new system don't actually care about what their rating is. Why not just change it back so that those of us who want our ratings back will be happy and it doesn't affect the people who don't care.

arguably, the puzzle ratings are a much more accurate reflection of your actual ability to solve them. all the top rated players before the rating adjustments were rated over 60,000, which is ridiculously high considering the puzzles they solve are likely between 1500-2000. i fully guarantee that those people would lose their minds trying to solve a 60,000-rated puzzle, if that's even possible to make. the adjustments made the ratings a product of the difficulty of puzzles you were solving.

Hi all, sorry if it's a bit off topic. I'm conducting an academic research on Chess creativity and i'm looking for some players (elo>1800) willing to spend half a hours rating 16 puzzles. May I post the link here? It's anonymous and for research purpose.

Thanks!

I am 1770+ on chess.com will that work? I am around 1600 OTB but I play like a 2000 rated player.

But I am still a kid and not a teen yet, so I can not access that because it is blocked.

I solved over 100k puzzles and had 3500+ puzzle rating. It dropped to 1500 overnight — honestly I couldn't do puzzles for a month after that. Chess.com support kinda idiots which send you massive gifs with kittens and a lot of emojis with zero explanation besides "it's for the best".

Puzzles are just tactical training and the rating really doesn't matter in the end. Also, I see some incredibly difficult and long engine lines being solved in 10 seconds by some players with ratings over 3000., so I'm not sure about those anyway. If you have a rating between 1500 and 2500, you're doing great and are strong enough to dominate the board.