Sorry if the question has already been answered.
Why does some puzzles give you 18 points and some only give 4 or 5 ?
And is there a way to know the pourcentage of players who succeeded or failed for each puzzle ?
thanks
to my understanding there's no way of knowing the percentage and the points gained or lost depends on how high your score is at that moment and the difficulty of the puzzle. the correlation between those two factors i guess.
I just noticed that for the fiorst time, I gained less than 4 points with some puzzles.
Actually, I've just played 12 puzzles : 10 wins, 2 fails.
+38 points for 10 win : average +4 points per puzzle :(
-33 points for 2 fail : average -16 points per puzzle :(
Do puzzles give less than before or was I unlucky ?
It depends on puzzle and user rating (*). I have done puzzles that have increased/decreased from 1 point to 24 points.
(*)
github.com/ornicar/lila/blob/master/modules/puzzle/src/main/Finisher.scalaif you dont see a forced mate, you will pay the price, -17 or so. If you see a rare combination, +15. The world never be the same after that :-) .
love the puzzles, since i'm new to chess but after maybe 175 puzzles i'm at 1940 or something. However, a puzzle might take me anywhere from one-minute to a few days (If i can't figure it out in 20-minutes, I'll hope the following day my mind is better). I think there is a great correlation to being a good chess player, but likely only if you can figure out the puzzle in a few minutes or less. i'm not sure where that leaves me....lol
