Are chesstempo tactics easier?
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I’m trying some of these tactic puzzles but I get all 5 wrong. But I can get long streaks of like 30 correct on chesstempo, solving some of them in less than 10 seconds. Is there a huge difference between the two sites? Do the puzzles on chess dot com not scale in difficulty with your rating or something? I’m feeling really stupid
In my experience:
1) You tend to get served a wider range of puzzles here.
2) Chess Tempo tends to give you more lower rated puzzles so you get more right, but when you fail one, it is quite penal.
3) Chess Tempo has different modes. In standard mode, you can think all day, and it won't affect the rating.
4) The way they are rated is quite different, and ratings are not comparable between the sites.
I agree. My chess tempo rating is a few hundred points higher than here (mixed mode... maybe defense is more my thing), but I also think that chess tempo’s problems do not vary as wildly in difficulty as they do here. I could be wrong.
