27 checkmate combinations with limited pieces, I'm not that smart

No, just waited for Esoterrick to post the solution

I was a pretty good chess player when I was younger but the puzzle didn't follow the rules of the game. I agree it was over the top and I had to watch a video to get the loot. I've given up on feeling like I'm part of the game. I play with my friends and don't care much for the over the top "let us show you how smart we are."

I found every chess piece on my own. They're in common areas for the season and show up on radar when close enough. Even the ones that were "out of the way" were often placed where you'd go if you were looking for the generic secrets to begin with, so I wasn't annoyed by that step at all. In truth, the only reason to use a guide on this part is to know if you found them all for that zone, which is a failure in design transparency. What bothered me is the follow-up. More and more often, game developers have been trying to ape the ARG craze that's basically already dead and it's been one big misfire in design. They go into these things knowing that there's a small group of dedicated superfans that will obsess over the tiniest thing, so they decide that putting in clues and hints that anyone but the extremely obsessive will miss will be fine because "they'll solve it, then post the answers anyway." It's boring, lazy, and just encourages everyone to mentally check out and not bother until said obsessive group finds the solution (and sometimes it fails so spectacularly that Bungie just has to disable the trigger mechanism and give it to everyone without anything being solved). Things that are secrets and hints meant to be followed should be able to be figured out by the average player putting in just a little time and effort to see the strings and care about finding the end. Bungie consistently fails on this front.

Considering it was a community event.. I'm gonna say literally nobody did it alone lol

With anything like this, where the number of possible move combinations is mathematically extremely large, every likelihood that clues and solutions are pushed to creators to generate interest. Finding the chess pieces unprompted I can get with, because they show on radar and you can track via the triumphs. Solving the mid- and endgame chess board puzzles solo? Somewhere between no hope and Bob Hope…

Yup just waited until everything was solved watched a video and DONE! After almost a month free of destiny logged in got it done and logged off xD

Nope. If I had a gun to my head or my Shiny Blast Furnace was at risk of being deleted I could have solved it but...nope. If I'm playing a game strictly about solving puzzles I clear them but I'm much less motivated when I'm playing a more action driven game.

Fourth option: I couldn’t have solved it myself, looked up a guide, then decided I didn’t want to waste time in Destiny 2 playing chess while needing the help of a guide. Had it rewarded a completely new to the game, exotic armor or weapon, I would have just used the guide and gotten it done. It just didn’t feel rewarding or interesting. It as far as I can tell, doesn’t seem to fit any kind of story or connection to the rest of the game. Lost interest fairly quickly, once the guild outlined how many more puzzle steps there was to do everything.

A lot of content is created with creators in mind, they push guides & channels in their live streams now, it's an eco system. Even going back to the D1 beta in 2014 deej the then community manager said 'in this game the internet is your best friend'. He knew exactly what he was saying

Got to round 8

Option 4. Chess puzzle ? Eh ?

50/50. I got the 27 normal puzzles but looked up the community puzzle solution and the location of half the pieces.