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by dmurray 1531 days ago
Lichess, chesstempo etc don't do a lot on the "superficial evaluation" - that's generally a hard problem to solve algorithmically.

Instead the main approach is to just mix new problems into the pool and let users try them. If there are no plausible alternatives, everyone gets the right move and the problem quickly becomes too low-rated to be shown to most players. If there are tempting alternatives and the correct solution is hard to calculate, it will become high-rated and only shown to stronger users.