Puzzle Tiers / Leagues / Prestige Explained

Chess.com has rolled out a new feature for Android apps: rated puzzle tiers (leagues). They're pretty much the same as Live game Leagues:

• Wood Tier
• Stone Tier
• Bronze Tier
  
  
• Silver Tier
  
  
• Crystal Tier
• Elite Tier
• Champion Tier
• Legend Tier

And once you've completed all Tiers - you get the notification "Congratulations! You have prestiged 1x', i.e. you get your chess pawn upgraded to match the style of an upper league.

Same as with the Tiers, there are 8 levels of "Prestige" - the first time you go through the puzzle journey you start with a simple green pawn (presumably "Wood" level) and once you've gone through all the tiers, you get a Stone pawn - once you go though all the Tiers with the Stone pawn, you get a Bronze pawn, etc.

• Wood

• Stone Prestige

• Bronze Prestige

• Silver Prestige

• Crystal Prestige

• Elite Prestige

• Champion Prestige

• Legend Prestige

You start the puzzle journey in Wood Tier by getting 15 points for a regular puzzle, 20 points for a Hard puzzle and 25 points for an Extra hard one. This changes as you move up the Tiers: in most completed Tiers you will get notifications like: "+10% for Extra hard puzzles" or "+30% for all puzzles" and similar. Here's the breakdown of points given in each Tier for different puzzles:

You get only 1 point for each correct move if you use Tips (Hints) or correctly solve only a part of puzzle. The streak does not get reset after using Tips but it does get reset after solving only part of the puzzle correctly but failing at the final move.

30 point bonus is given each day for correctly solving 3 puzzles "Daily solver" in Wood Tier. Starting with Stone Tier you get 60 point bonus for "Daily Solver".

50 point bonus is given for each improvement of a correctly solved puzzles streak.

50 point bonus is given for each Personal Record for Hardest Puzzle solved, i. e. the puzzle with the highest rating so far.

75 point bonus is given for each new set of 50 correctly solved Extra Hard puzzles "Extra Hard Puzzles Benchmark" or 50 correctly solved Hard Puzzles "Hard Puzzles Benchmark". You get 50 points for 100 correctly solved regular puzzles as a "Normal Puzzles Benchmark".

50 point bonus is given for each new set of 50 correctly solved normal puzzles as a Major Benchmark.

1-7 point bonus is given for speed of solving after each solved puzzle.

The fastest way to go through all the tiers is to focus on having long streaks of solved puzzles because the give you an enormous amount of points. The number of correctly solved puzzles in a streak is multiplied by tier level (2 for Stone, 3 for Bronze, etc.) and converted to points that you get after solving each puzzle (in Elite, Champion and Legend there's also 5 points added after the multiplication). So, for example, in Legend Tier you get 245 points for a 30 puzzle streak.

The amount of points needed to pass a level in each Tier also differs: in Legend Tier it's around 2000.

I have finished all Tiers and all levels of Prestige, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask

The first time I finished Legend Tier I had 203429 points.

I will quote user Ecylin who has gathered this awesome info on how many points you need for each prestige:

"1st prestige: 200k

2nd prestige: 500k

3rd prestige: 790k

4th prestige: 1.08m

5th prestige: 1.38m (for some reason it skipped over elite tier and went straight to champion tier)

6th prestige: 1.67m"