What's New with Puzzle Duel?

Hello ChessKid fans!

A lot of you have enjoyed Puzzle Duel since it was released a few months ago. So what's new?  

LEADERBOARDS

We've recently added leaderboards that display some of your amazing ChessKid accomplishments!

 

 

Now you can see kids who have the highest TOTAL WINS and HIGHEST WIN STREAKS. You can display these by their ALL TIME records or for the past week. Some kids have racked up total win counts in the thousands!

PUZZLE DUEL RANKINGS

 

You may have noticed a chess piece symbol when you're in Puzzle Duel. It's your Puzzle Duel Rank, and it gives you an idea of your Puzzle Duel progress. All kids start out at the BRONZE PAWN rank. As you make progress, you'll get promoted to SILVER PAWN and then GOLD PAWN. To make progress, you'll need to win Puzzle Duels!

Once you've won enough games to advance past GOLD PAWN, then you'll get promoted to BRONZE KNIGHT. And from there, you can keep making progress... all the way up to GOLD KING!  

HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH TO GET PROMOTED?

ChessKid's mathematicians, computer programs, Funmaster Mike and some other smart people came up with a very complicated way of figuring out how many kids deserve to be in each rank. Well, it's not really that complicated.

 

If you've ever done any math work on percentages and distributions, you'll understand this. If not, don't worry-- your math teacher will some day cover this stuff! To give you an idea of the distribution...

75% of kids will be placed into a PAWN, KNIGHT or BISHOP rank.

25% of kids will be placed into the ROOK, QUEEN or KING rank.  

 

 

The higher up you go, the fewer kids will actually be there. Did you know that less than 2% of all ChessKids have made it to the KING rank? And even fewer of them have made it all the way to the GOLD KING rank!

YOU CAN'T GO DOWN IN RANK

Once you've achieved a certain rank, you can't go down! So just enjoy the journey. If you work hard enough, maybe you can one day reach a Queen or King ranking!

WE WILL RESET RANKINGS AT SOME POINT...

But hey, didn't we just say that you can't go down in ranking?

ChessKid will be experimenting with 'SEASONS'. If you play or watch sports, it's kind of like when a new season starts. When a new season begins, everyone will start off on a fresh, clean slate. At some point, we start a new season. We want everyone to have a chance to go up in ranks. So continue to enjoy Puzzle Duel and the rest of ChessKid's amazing features. We'll see you on the way up!