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   Economic_Hitman (economichitman@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 13:00:21 JST Economic_Hitman

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   Chess.com subtracted over 1000 points from my Puzzles rating!!! :terryyelling: :ronmad: :cryingl:
   https://www.chess.com/news/view/announcing-new-puzzles-rating-system
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   my chart dropped like a rock
   pointing to the last puzzle I solved before they reevaluated my score
   article headline
   article explanation and an example of another player's score dropping
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 13:02:17 JST pistolero

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     @EconomicHitman @Frondeur @rimugu Did they explain the algorithm and why they didn't like the old one and why the new one works better?
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     Economic_Hitman (economichitman@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 03:58:32 JST Economic_Hitman

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     @p @Frondeur @rimugu kinda

     The old Puzzles ratings were significantly inflated. Because of this, they lost a lot of their meaning, as it was difficult to translate them into actual playing or tactical strength. They also made it difficult for us to accurately rate the puzzles themselves, which in turn made it harder for us to serve you with puzzles that were difficult enough to be challenging, and yet not too difficult to solve at all.

     Remember when I told you guys I reached 2500 in Puzzles? To me it felt like a significant accomplishment because it took me years to get that high, and I noticed over time that the penalties for losing a puzzle got higher and higher, but the reward stayed the same, so it makes your progress like a Sisyphusian effort.

     Up to that point I only played the max 5 puzzles per day that they allowed on the free tier, but after hitting that milestone I ponyed up for the Platinum tier to get unlimited puzzles. Over the last two months or so my score got up to 2800, thanks to unlimited puzzles. I found the penalties got higher, and the rewarded points stayed the same (and they stopped giving speed bonuses at a certain point!), but I make up for the loss quicker.

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     Economic_Hitman (economichitman@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 04:00:10 JST Economic_Hitman

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     @p @Frondeur @rimugu
     
     > The new Puzzles rating system uses the same Glicko-style rating logic that we use for your regular chess games.
     
     >we've made sure your new rating is accurate by replaying our full history of puzzle attempts (about 17 billion!) to re-rate both members and puzzles using the new algorithm.
     
     > We've adjusted the default difficulty of our puzzles based on research that shows that a higher success rate is optimal for learning. Standard puzzles will be much easier than our old puzzles, but will still give your brain a great workout!
     
     > "Hard" will make the puzzles a bit harder, and "Extra Hard" will feel much closer to what our old Puzzles system would give you.
     
     > The harder you set the difficulty, the more rating points you'll gain when you get a puzzle right.
     
     > We understand this is a big change, and a lot of care and planning went into it.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 04:01:46 JST pistolero

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     @EconomicHitman @Frondeur @rimugu Damn, dude.
     
     Seems like they could have just forked it and added a second puzzle mode.
     
     The Random Number God put this on, it sounds like something you might like:
     eightiesheadachetape--for_a_while--11_what-_huh-_excuse_me-_hello-.mp3
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 04:03:12 JST pistolero

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     @Frondeur @EconomicHitman @rimugu Why you gotta draw a picture if there's already a ♕ ♛ ♞ ♙ ♗?
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     Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 04:03:13 JST Frondeur

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     @EconomicHitman @p @rimugu :chess_queen_white: xf3
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 04:21:17 JST pistolero

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     @Frondeur @EconomicHitman @rimugu I don't understand why there would be custom chess emojis given that there are already Unicode codepoints for chess pieces.
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     Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 04:21:18 JST Frondeur

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     @p @EconomicHitman @rimugu im missing something...
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     Frondeur (frondeur@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 04:23:41 JST Frondeur

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     @p @EconomicHitman @rimugu ahhh yeah...idk...because the user interface is easier i imagine...
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 14:34:32 JST pistolero

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     > I can't find standard unicode emojis in FSE's emoji picker,
     
     They've been removed. They are soulless corporate art and I do not want to help pave the road to the mall.
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     Economic_Hitman (economichitman@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 14:34:33 JST Economic_Hitman

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     @Frondeur @p Graf is too busy promoting Halloween emojis 🎃 Funny tho, I can't find standard unicode emojis in FSE's emoji picker, only custom emojis. I have to copy paste them in or use hexcodes and HTML
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     Pi_rat (pirat@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 14:44:43 JST Pi_rat

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     @p @EconomicHitman @Frondeur :alexjonesyelling2: :arafatsmug2: :cosbysmug3:
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 14:47:07 JST pistolero

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     @Pirat @EconomicHitman @Frondeur now there's yer a fuckin' emchojom :bruceforsythe:
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     Economic_Hitman (economichitman@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 03:51:49 JST Economic_Hitman

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     @rimugu @Frondeur @p Thought you might find this error amusing. Seems like they are still working out the bugs on chess.com, since my score appears to have been "restored" (it immediately corrected on the next puzzle)
     chess.com-deleted-1000-points-from-my-Puzzles-rating-4-aftermath-error.png
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     Economic_Hitman (economichitman@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 03:51:50 JST Economic_Hitman

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     @rimugu @p @Frondeur I wonder how that website will adjust to the new ratings, although it looks like it does not convert the Puzzles rating from chess.com
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     rimugú (rimugu@rcsocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Oct-2025 03:51:51 JST rimugú

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     lichess are also inflated, I have used this https://chessratings.org/ to give me a general idea of real ratings.

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