Hello,
Very good interface but it seems some problem solutions are not optimals .. some friends complain about it ..
For example mate in 4 refused. Instead, solution proposed is take a pawn with mate in 10 ..
So maybe you should improve the puzzle database ..
I think, it's not very useful to solve a problem where you have a Queen more o.O
i like this puzzle system. it will be good if you solve puzzle in less time than you will get extra points and if you take too much time to solve puzzle than you will get less points. and having a puzzle leaderboard also will be great.
There are some things that can be improved, but that will probably happen because of feedback on the puzzles. Overall, I think it's a great addition to the website!
I recommend adding a feedback part to the puzzles so players can comment on the puzzles (in addition to upvoting/downvoting). After a while you'll see that the reasons why people upvote/downvote are often very similar and you can then make it multiple choice instead of open-ended.
Puzzle is a good idea. Thanks a lot. This is my favorite chess site. Respect.
Thanks for making the effort to create a puzzle section Clarkey, much appreciated! It's certainly an ambitious project and still needs some polish but it's nice to get some puzzles from actual noob games for a change :) Some things I noticed:
1) Can we get a link to the game from which a puzzle is taken?
2) I don't like the drag'n'drop method of input, can we have the option of clicking on squares just like in regular games?
3) Some of the new text is in English on my localized lichess and I can't find the new strings in the translation form.
4) As for the quality of puzzles, there are some poor ones for sure, but then there are some good ones as well. Let's hope that the rating system works out and we'll weed out the bad ones over time.
Also, do we lose points if we close the tab before solving the puzzle? If not then it'll be easy to cheat by simply abandoning the puzzles where you don't know the answer... not that I see any point in cheating at puzzles but still...
1) The information about the game the puzzle came from does exist, it's just not displayed at the moment. I would like to see it too.
2) The chess board interface is in-fact a different library to the in-game board. i'm not sure how easy it is to implement a click-to-click interface.
3) The site is translated by people who submit translations via
http://en.lichess.org/translation/contribute . We need the publics' help to translate lichess.
4) Unavoidably there will be some bad puzzles. Use the upvote and downvote buttons to the right of the board once you've finished. Downvoting bad puzzles means that they are unlikely to appear to other people.
5) You do not lose points if you leave the page. You will be displayed with the exact puzzle that you were last solving when you come back to the page making it so you cannot abandon puzzles.
^ What Clarkey said. I'd like to make an amendment on 3) tho:
The translation strings do not exist yet for the puzzles. I shall add them within a week, so people can start translating the puzzle UI. You will be notified when that happens.
Thanks, and thanks. Will contribute the translation, can't help with the puzzles as I can't program :P
