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garos
3/01/2008
03:23:02
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 Subject: Just curious
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Today on the log in page the daily puzzle had a 1/2 star rating for difficulty. How is this possible? If you rate the puzzle, the minimum you can give it is one star, for very easy. If you complete the puzzle and don't rate it, does that count as no stars? It has got me wondering.
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ravster
3/01/2008
04:46:51
[ report abuse ] | I agree
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With you. I saw the same puzzle and it was rated 1/2 a star. I don't know how this can happen but my guess is that the GK admin changed the rating someway.
Ravi
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ogedei
3/01/2008
10:10:09
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How are the puzzles that make the front page chosen? Is it randomly taken from the puzzle database?
But ya, mate in 1... never really the hardest puzzles to solve...
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ccmcacollister
3/01/2008
10:15:45
[ report abuse ] | ogedei ...
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NOW you tell me ...
Just this week I visited a tactic site, found the mate-in-three, and got my Tactics Rating creamed 180 points for missing the mate-in-one~!
Who expected something so simple! }8-)
I sure wish there had been a 1/2 STAR there to alert me :(
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heinzkat
3/01/2008
10:24:53
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garos:
"The way the average difficulty rating is calculated was changed recently -- the submitted rating is adjusted slightly based on whether the user made many mistakes when solving the puzzle, or used any hints."
Recently means somewhere around new year. If you make 0 or 1 mistake in solving the puzzle, your difficulty rating is half a 'star' lower than you give. If you make 2 or 3 (here I'm just guessing) mistakes the same rating is given; if you make more than 3 mistakes, half a star is added. Also, for each hint you use, one full star is added. (this is what I think that is happening)
ravster: what are you agreeing on?
ccmcacollister: should've seen the mate in one.
And ogedei:
"The daily puzzle is chosen pseudo-randomly, taking into account how many people voted for each puzzle at that point."
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ogedei
3/01/2008
10:34:02
[ report abuse ] | ccmcacollister...
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I do know what you mean, believe me. There are ways to make them tricky...
Was the solution to your puzzle an en passant capture or castling?
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ogedei
3/01/2008
10:35:22
[ report abuse ] | (con't from my post above)
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Or was it something else?
(I wish we could edit our posts... I wouldn't sound like such a jerk sometimes...)
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garos
3/01/2008
19:12:34
[ report abuse ] | Heinzkat
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How do you have all the information the rest of us wish we had? Do you have a special connection somewhere?
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ccmcacollister
3/01/2008
21:36:29
[ report abuse ] | YES ...
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garos , I think you are quite correct and Heinzkat has a special connection; a USB cord running from his brain to GK.
heinzkat , It was a Timed Problem, so it usually doesn't pay to look for extra Mates!
ogedei , I wish you didn't ask that :)
It was actually a simple back-rank mate thing. Going to the trouble to remove a defender to do it with a Rook ... it turns out the Queen could simply Mate on a different
square.
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steverand67
3/01/2008
22:01:46
[ report abuse ] | My theory:
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heinzkat=Mike
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heinzkat
3/02/2008
01:38:15
[ report abuse ] | No,
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I'm already being brunetti. :)
 gameknot.com
gameknot.com/fmsg/chess3/757.shtml
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heinzkat
3/02/2008
01:49:39
[ report abuse ] | garos/ogedei
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I had the same questions a while ago, used the contact form, and surprise surprise got these replies from GameKnot_com's 'helpdesk'!
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