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Originally Posted by TimM
Something must have changed recently on chess.com tactics. A year or two ago I was bouncing between 2400 and 2500 (as a 2150 FIDE), and my 2390 friend was hovering around 2600. Now I am just going straight up, and should break 2700 some time tonight lol. Some easy problems have high ratings, not sure why.
Ahh, the friends I was looking at mainly did puzzles from a couple of years ago so perhaps that explains it. But I was assuming 2700 was at least 2200+ FIDE level. Maybe I should start doing chess.com tactics, although I only can do 5 a day so meh.
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Originally Posted by NL Loki
Yeah, same with me, I was hovering between 2400-2500 too, then going straight up. I thought doing tactics everyday was making me improve. That's abit disheartening to hear. I'll ask the management then.
Well, you probably are improving but, yeah, it is quite annoying if there is some weird rating jump thing and it's not easy to tell if it's a real improvement or not.
Btw - I've found the analysis/survey data here interesting:
https://chessgoals.com/puzzle-rush
https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison
You'll note that he doesn't have too many strong survey participants since the data doesn't go too high but it still is kind of fun to look at.
According to all of this my OTB rating should still be at like, 1800 or something lol.