Ok I go back to chess.com where my rating is not judging by an stupid algorythm programming with the ass.
Well, it took some work, however, I managed to get both my blitz and rapid ratings above 1800. Now I'm an older man, playing these quick time frames is probably not good for my heart. ha. Getting my bullet rating above 1800? I don't know about that one.
Played 23 Blitz games 1806 +32 10-4-9
Played 18 Rapid games 1809 +26 9-0-9
Played 9 Bullet games 1526 +6 4-0-5
Now, my puzzle rating was around 2500. Let's see if the supposition that my rating was changed to "?" because of the large differential between my game ratings and my puzzle ratings holds true. Someone had checked the github and that's the story, that this delta between the ratings triggered a flag. However, so far, we don't have any indication if there's a return to normal if the delta is reduced, so... we wait.
You are right @Patrizsche... I realised that when I played one blitz game. Because of that I said the page activity works fine.
Thank you man!
Message to Thibault : I understand why you are cleaning up, it's better for everyone on this site to do so. I guess I must consider my abandonment from rating my puzzles as a big complement, because I'm really good at solving puzzles. I'm a slow thinker, so when I have time, I can solve very hard puzzles. I must admit, in the past I've cheated for a week on solving puzzles just to discover if it was possible. Then I deliberately dropped my rating because I wanted to exceed it on my own. I got 2387, 1 point more than a friend of mine. Later on I got some sort of an epiphany, and got 2692 (registered 2666). This rating I reached was completely by myself. I know there is no satisfaction in cheating. Probably that rating I will never reach again, but 2500 is still in reach for me. Under 15 seconds games I become somewhat of a moron. But with more time, I reach better results. So I've been taking your advise, to play the hardest puzzles you created. I've failed about 30 in a row. How many puzzles should I play to get rated again ? I would even agree that you set my rating at the same hight as my worst performance ever. At last, I would like to thank all you guys for making this outstanding platform. Greetings from Holland by Jeroen Graaf.
i think it is also a problem of the score that you solve an exercise, because an exercise solved correctly adds 15 and 20 points and the incorrect ones still subtract 15 or more points, I reached 2600 for doing many exercises of normal difficulty and each day ended With 50 exercises done, I did more or less 50 exercises per day and of those 50 exercises towards 100 points per day, since I was lucky that I would have 5 exercises that I can solve well and without making mistakes.
I make puzzles for a bavarian newspaper since 30 years. "Puzzle" is (like "Fernschach") a spezial catagorie and have often nothing to do with your normal standard in
chess. There is a fifference between Slow-and Fastgaming too. I feel this specially because of my age (76). Fastplaying bad results, Longthinking m u c h better results. Please respect that fact!!! You cannot handle the problem by punishing all! That is (sorry!) a mediveal method! (In schoolclasses in Germany it is forbidden! And that is more than o.k.). When players cheat themselves, it is their problem, not ours. Take puzzles off from the program or let it be like it was.
You should ist not make it so easy for hihgscorers like me to get easy points be "easier" and "normal" solutions. That is the main problem!!!
And -by the way- why not results in the private zone? I need not to show my results to others and I'm not interested in results of other players! But I'm a fan of puzzler. I can think without pressure!!!
Thank you for the reset! With nearly 33.000 puzzles in two years you can zhe the importance for me, to bring every morning (I'm 76 years old) my brain in form. Cheating wouldn't help me in that case!!!
I hope I'm not being punished again for remembering the solutions of some of the most difficult puzzles I had to practice to get back my rating. My rating is skyrocketing now because when I fail I loose 2 or 3 points, and when succeeded I gain 22. So please "check" if you think I'm cheating because I'm not. Otherwise I wouldn't make a lot of mistakes. Thank you.
I'm sure, a top international player with 2700 elo will reach the level of 5000 in your kind of puzzles. Will you call him a cheater??? The problem is your system and that cannot be really solved! I gained a lot of my points up to nearly 2800 by "easier" and "normal" games. And that is for a player with over 2100 elo realy easy!!! ... and i believe for slow and deep thinkers too!
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