personally I really dislike this fancy 3d graphics, it actually messes me up. I prefer the flat view from the top 2d simple is best style 

how do you all feel about this?

As I have played for a long time OTB with a 3D board, I best see 3 dimensions.

All the games I play here at chess.com, I arrange the pieces for each game according to the last move and do my analysis from there, for me there is a very high level of concentration that I can apply to the whole board position first and next to areas needing my attention and last to the pieces that need to move. This is how I played chess the 3D has a captivating aspect for me. Naturally I do not need to set up a board for the first few moves or so.

In the 60's and for a long time before and after, only the chess chronicles in the newspaper and the books had 2 dimensional boards. And even then I put the position to be resolved on a 3D chessboard.

And since I learned from the very beginning with a 3D chessboard I simply cannot part with it.

And yes today I can resolve a number of chess problems on a 2D board and still use the 3D board when I need to.

I suspect that boken88 had a "3D" electronic graphical representation of a chessboard in mind rather than a physical chessboard.

I use a "3D" chessboard in ChessMaster. The main problem I have is that it is difficult to find a single viewing angle in which no small pieces are hidden by larger pieces. I find that I have to periodically rotate the board by a few degrees as the board position changes.

i guess i just find it distracting, and as mentioned by you guys, finding the right angle so that squares and pieces dont get hidden... i'm battling 2 opponents!

I do not like 3D boards on computer. My playing strength goes down by 40-50% with it. 

I am not familiar with computer chessboards but is there not a selection of settings one to 3 or more that you can preset and that you can easily just recall? rather than having to adjust?

And if not you may want to make a suggestion to the provider of the game.