why did my puzzle score go down
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Tegan_Hill
Oct 26, 2025
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#1
My puzzle score wend from 1800 to 1200 anyone know why it happens over night???
Oct 27, 2025
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#3
It was recalibrated, because it was considered overblown. Your relative position among chess.com users remained the same, as it happened to all players. I personally don't like the changes to puzzles lately.
Im glad they revised it.
Oct 30, 2025
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#8
I think the new puzzle rating is still a bit inflated. I am probably a 1500-1600 player (haven't played over the board in a long time but I suspect that's where I would be given chess.com blitz versus USCF rating translations) but my puzzle rating shows 1950. Not a big deal as long as it's a consistent spread / percentile.
Oct 31, 2025
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#9
Puzzle rating should be higher than game ratings; it's expected. If someone was pointing out when tactics existed in a game, you would expect your rating to get higher.
That was discussed in the last State of Chess.com broadcast.
Nov 10, 2025
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#10
This new system is terrible! I hate that my rating went down. They need to change it back!
Nov 10, 2025
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#11
I was stunned ... and upset ... also. But I've been working on it an brought it back up about 100 points.
Nov 12, 2025
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#12
SagebrushSea wrote:
I was stunned ... and upset ... also. But I've been working on it an brought it back up about 100 points.
Yeah, that's how almost everyone feels. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to change it, but it wasn't.
I like the new puzzles better. Reason being that they are not so obvious that I can spot them in seconds, but not so difficult that I have to spend 10 minutes or more trying to solve, which was the case prior to the change.
In other words, a reasonable solve time that one may actually have to spot a tactic in a rapid game.
Puzzles are a training tool for me, and I really don't care what my "rating" is, thats just a meaningless figure.
Nov 12, 2025
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#15
whiteknight1968 wrote:
I like the new puzzles better. Reason being that they are not so obvious that I can spot them in seconds, but not so difficult that I have to spend 10 minutes or more trying to solve, which was the case prior to the change.
In other words, a reasonable solve time that one may actually have to spot a tactic in a rapid game.
Puzzles are a training tool for me, and I really don't care what my "rating" is, thats just a meaningless figure.
This is why chess.com should put the ratings back to the way it was because the people who do puzzles to improve their rating want a higher rating system, and people who do puzzles to improve thier chess just don't care about ratings.
Nov 12, 2025
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SagebrushSea wrote:
I was stunned ... and upset ... also. But I've been working on it an brought it back up about 100 points.
Ye I got down to 2000 cuz the update but pushed to 2200
Nov 12, 2025
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Tristan-Gurjot214 wrote:
SagebrushSea wrote:
I was stunned ... and upset ... also. But I've been working on it an brought it back up about 100 points.
Yeah, that's how almost everyone feels. I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to change it, but it wasn't.
I've been active in a lot of the topics around the change and it's actually pretty even between those that are upset and those that like it or thought the change was long overdue.
