Need difficult puzzles, IM and GM levels.

[sathyats]

i am new here not sure whether i am in the right place to express my concern.

We need difficult tactics as well. When I say difficult; there should be "mate in x number of moves" the x should range from 5 to 10. Means there should be puzzles with mate in 7, mate in 10 etc. It looks like they had it earlier but they deleted them.

Could they reintroduce them again. We need tactics and combinations of various depth including IM or GM levels.

Are there other sites where they have  GM level puzzles? Also instead of  material advantage alone are there sites which provide problems of " positions" means " produce a advantageous or winning position in 5 moves or 10 moves" etc. For example white plays accurately and after move 10 produces a position where it gains subtle but good advantages like " open files" " exposed king" " opponents queen pushed to inferior square " etc.

Before going to other sites could this wonderful site start something like this?
  

[sourire]

If you play rated standard/blitz on the hardest difficulty, while your rating improves so does the difficulty of the problems. For example, I'm 2146.8 (not IM or GM strength) but my last problem, 51908, was a mate in 7.

Also, if you buy a membership you can create your own problem sets.

For you, probably select: Rating minimum 2xxx,  Number of moves minimum x, Outcome type mate.

Your problem set will be narrowed drastically from 23,250 problems.
Hope that helps.

[sourire]

ps- I think you need to make a new poll.

[sathyats]

Thanks Sourire for valuable info. Appreciate it.

[richard]

Hi Sathyats,

I agree , I'd like more very difficult problems  in the set (there are some, but not enough).  This is slowly being addressed as new problems are added to the set and I'm also working on problem generator changes which should increase the yield of difficult problems. Unfortunately hard problems are well...hard to produce, they tend to be longer and the longer a problem is the more likely it is to have ambiguity problems that require it to be rejected. 

Having said that, the main reason you are not seeing very hard problems is because the problem selection system tries to target problems at your current rating level, at 1600-1700 standard the problems you are seeing are likely to be just above average in difficultly, as your rating increases you will see harder problems.

You can try setting your problem difficulty preference to 'hard' which will make the problems a little more difficult (if you haven't done this already). As sourire points out paying members can also create unrated problem sets based on a number of parameters that vary based on problem difficulty (such as rating and number of moves).

Regards,
Richard.

[dhingzpe]

ps- I think you need to make a new poll.

Haha. There are 2 choices for the poll, both of which are the same.

[sathyats]

Hi Richard.

Thanks very much for the reply and the info. I really appreciate it.

I fully agree with your points. It is really difficult to generate very difficult to puzzles.

I am very satisfied with your site. If possible ( once again if possible ) it may be better to strictly categorize the puzzles as much as possible to simple/ basic, medium and difficult levels. I agree it is difficult sometimes to categorize especially borderline puzzles however if an approximate categorization can be made it will help the members.

Simple we could choose what we want. With the current system we have to wait till we reach higher rating.

Regards,

Sathyats.

[drahacikfm]

sathyats:

Every problem has a rating, so it's not really necessary to categorize problems as basic, medium, difficult, etc.  That's already done to much finer detail by the rating system.

As a gold or silver member, you can choose exactly which problems you want to practice.  For example, you can create and save your own personal problem set with only the problems rated between 2000 and 2100 Standard Rating that you have not tried yet.

There are lots of tough problems here.  You could make a personal set of only the Standard Rated problems rated over 2300.  If you can do all of those easily, there's no need for you to be here!   Just go win some Grandmaster tournaments!

[sathyats]

Well once again thanks for the suggestions, I appreciate it.

Well I tried to set up the puzzles like that but in vain that is why I wrote these posts. I asked problems above  2200 something and computer told me there are no problems. i was surprised.

may be i didn't do it properly, i will try again.

regards,

sathyats.

[sathyats]

yep i got it. it looks like there was some computer problem which prevented me from getting what i wanted. this time there was no problem. so it was technical issue. now i can extract very difficult puzzles from the system.

wonderful site. keep going.

sathyats.