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UnwaveringDefiance

My puzzle rating is 2200. Puzzles are supposed to be about calculation, but I've gotten here all by intuition: seeing the best looking move and doing with without thinking.

Also I get scholar's mate puzzles every once in a while at 2200... hello???

Fire

well if you are getting all easy puzzles then why arent you higher?

UnwaveringDefiance
Fire wrote:

well if you are getting all easy puzzles then why arent you higher?

Because I don't play much puzzles, also my point is all puzzles can be cheezed by going for a obvious move, regardless how much calculation there is.

Any puzzle has a solution, and knowing there's a solution narrows the choices down a lot.

daniilA09

IDK i have the same situation here, 2070 at puzzles and 1200 in rapid, i dont exatly remember who, but i guess Hikaru said: if u put in the situation and told to find extraordinary move, u probably will find it, so i guess they should change system a bit, for example finding multiple moves in a row to not all advantage u got by playing "intuation"