True. It makes no sense anymore. It is just frustrating!!
Puzzles Update Is Bad
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23 days ago
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I First thought it was Just a bug. But this is so frustrating! Specially with puzzle Battle.
Puzzles on this website used to be a useful training tool, with puzzle strength being a fairly reliable indicator for how tough a puzzle was. In addition to that, your speed and accuracy were weighted fairly.
The new puzzles update has been terribly executed. Chess.com seems to have followed Lichess in allowing members to choose their puzzle strength, but have completely missed the mark. They have also ruined user puzzle ratings entirely. When you set the puzzle setting to "Extra Hard", you don't get much harder puzzles, nor do you get more points for solving harder puzzles.
There also doesn't seem to be ratings for individual puzzles anymore. Why remove that? Puzzles on chess.com used to be difficult, and thus a useful way to improve and measure one's improvement, but now you can reach 5000+ puzzle rating with ease. Maybe that's the goal here, so that every beginner can show off their 10,000+ puzzle rating, but until then I'll be using other sites and tools for improvement.