Hello,
Has anyone noticed the puzzles have become more difficult of late? I'm not a good player by any stretch - I think of myself as 'ambitiously bad' - but I found I was starting to have consistent success with the puzzles. I slowly climbed up into the low-1900 range and felt reasonably secure in the 1800 range. Recently, however, I've seen my score precipitously fall. I'm now in the 1500 range, which is deeply discouraging. I understand the puzzles are not an absolute indicator of one's chess skill. Still, it was pleasing to someone like myself to find that the puzzles allowed a participation in chess beyond the opening game resignation or embarrassing checkmate.
The puzzles, too, seem more numerously mid-range - that congested-looking arrangement of pieces that leaves me anticipating collapse - or strange endgames where the best moves often seem arbitrarily arrived at but aren't.
All best,
Jon
Has anyone noticed the puzzles have become more difficult of late? I'm not a good player by any stretch - I think of myself as 'ambitiously bad' - but I found I was starting to have consistent success with the puzzles. I slowly climbed up into the low-1900 range and felt reasonably secure in the 1800 range. Recently, however, I've seen my score precipitously fall. I'm now in the 1500 range, which is deeply discouraging. I understand the puzzles are not an absolute indicator of one's chess skill. Still, it was pleasing to someone like myself to find that the puzzles allowed a participation in chess beyond the opening game resignation or embarrassing checkmate.
The puzzles, too, seem more numerously mid-range - that congested-looking arrangement of pieces that leaves me anticipating collapse - or strange endgames where the best moves often seem arbitrarily arrived at but aren't.
All best,
Jon