New and Improved Stats

New and Improved Stats

Amaleki
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For all of you Stats lovers out there, here is what we've refreshed and added for your enjoyment. Overview Right off the bat, when you select Stats from your main navigation you will notice a completely new page! This is your Stats Overview...

NEW: ⭐ GAME REVIEW

NEW: ⭐ GAME REVIEW

Amaleki
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Game Review is the reimagination of what was previously known as Game Report and Key Moments. What you will recognize After completing a game and selecting Game Review to analyze your match, there is a lot you'll be familiar with. In the su...

NEW: Tablebases available in Analysis

NEW: Tablebases available in Analysis

drittman13
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Hey, Team Beta! Tablebases are now available through Chess.com/analysis or at the end of your games when you run a Game Report. Tablebases tell you with absolute certainty which moves win, lose, and draw for any position with seven or fewer p...

NEW: Improve Key Skills with Practice

NEW: Improve Key Skills with Practice

DeepGreene
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Hey, Team Beta! Today, we're happy to introduce a new training feature called Practice! You can find it at chess.com/practice - or in the Puzzles section of the navigation, where Drills used to be. What's it do? ...Glad you aske...

NEW: Place Emojis Directly on the ChessBoard

NEW: Place Emojis Directly on the ChessBoard

jdcannon
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Hey, Team Beta! It's now possible to place Annotations, Reactions, and Emojis directly on the chessboard while you are playing, watching, solving or analyzing! Any board on the site will work the same.  (Except for /live)  Update:...

NEW: Try the New Daily Puzzle

NEW: Try the New Daily Puzzle

DeepGreene
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Hey, Team Beta! As you may have noticed, we've been testing out the new Daily Puzzle this week - and excited to hear what you think! The Daily Puzzle is one of the oldest and most used features of the site, and now, finally, getting the respect ...

NEW: Obsess Over Your Opening Stats! 🎉

NEW: Obsess Over Your Opening Stats! 🎉

Amaleki
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Wondering if you’ve been improving your French Defense this week vs last month?🤔Wonder no more, just explore your new Opening Stats! 🎉 Opening stats can be found in the title drop down of your Stats page. On this new page you can now bro...

NEW: Perfect Your Endgame Technique

NEW: Perfect Your Endgame Technique

DeepGreene
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Hey Team Beta! Sure, everyone knows that Chess Openings are sexy and have cool-sounding names that Netflix subscribers go wild for - but your perfect execution of the Pterodactyl Defense won't do you much good 36 moves later, if you don't have t...

NEW: Curate Collections with Library!

NEW: Curate Collections with Library!

Amaleki
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Have you been yearning for a place to store and revisit your favorite games? Never fear, Library is here! 📚 Now you can compile your very own Collections of personal, master, and all other games! Games can be added to collections from any sou...

Seeking Lesson Reviewers

Seeking Lesson Reviewers

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Note: We've accepted our first lesson reviewers. Thank you SO much to all who expressed interest. Unfortunately, we can't bring everyone in right now, but we will be looking at responses here first if we expand the program in future. Hello every...

NEW: Champion Chess 3D Mobile App

NEW: Champion Chess 3D Mobile App

jdcannon
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We’re excited to introduce you to a completely new playing experience with the Champion Chess 3D mobile app! The app is only available on mobile but works great on both phones and tablets.  You can download the app here: For i...

NEW: Save Vs Computer Games to Your Archive

NEW: Save Vs Computer Games to Your Archive

DeepGreene
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As of today, you can optionally save each game you play in the Computer feature. All you have to do is click this new link at the bottom of the side-panel after your game: Computer games you choose to include in your Archive will be easy to i...

Watching Chess Events Got an Overhaul

Watching Chess Events Got an Overhaul

jdcannon
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Hi Beta Club!  Did you guys know that if you clicked events in the nav you could view all the events being played around the world?  Regardless, this page got a massive overhaul which we hope will drastically improve the exp...

Guess The Move Comes to Play

Guess The Move Comes to Play

jdcannon
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Hello Beta club!  We have finished migrating Guess the Move from Live chess over to the new Play Beta! Please come give it a try   It should work exactly the same as in Live Chess meaning you simply watch a game and make your gues...

Getting Started with Better Stats

Getting Started with Better Stats

DeepGreene
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Hey Team Beta! Today we're finally rolling out Phase 1 of a long-awaited replacement for our Member Stats UI. The current/previous Stats feature was definitely starting to show its age: There were errors and inaccuracies - and it provided zero sco...

Vote Chess Update!

Vote Chess Update!

DeepGreene
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Calling all Vote Chess players! Today we're doing our initial roll-out of a completely refurbished Vote Chess interface, and we need your help to test it, of course! There's not much to say about it, really. Functionally, it should work pretty m...

NEW: Vs Computer Taken Over by Bots

NEW: Vs Computer Taken Over by Bots

DeepGreene
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Hey, Team Beta! Today we're extremely excited to introduce you to 60+ new friends who are always up for a game - in a brand new Vs Computer feature! The new Computer has a lot more personality, thanks to the addition of an international team of...

NEW: Puzzles Get a Fresh Look!

NEW: Puzzles Get a Fresh Look!

DeepGreene
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Hey, Team Beta! We just released a new version of Puzzles to Beta and can't wait to hear what you think! The focus is to make Puzzles cleaner and more modern looking - and more fun too! It begins with a new index at the main Puzzles page. Thi...

Introducing... New Chess Variants

Introducing... New Chess Variants

erik
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Hey BETA members! Hot out of the oven (and still cooling a little) are Variants! Check it out here: www.chess.com/variants  You can even play many of the variants listed in today's top news story: https://www.chess.com/news/view/new-alpha...

NEW: Play Odds in PLAY BETA

NEW: Play Odds in PLAY BETA

jdcannon
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Hey Beta Folks!  We've added a new feature to PLAY BETA that will allow you to play ODDs versus your friends to make an even match   First, choose Play a Friend:  Lastly, you can choose to let us Auto-B...

NEW: Lessons Get a New Look

NEW: Lessons Get a New Look

DeepGreene
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Hey, Team Beta! Today we're opening up a brand new Lessons product for members on Beta, and we're dying to know what you think of it! What's new?... Although we're always adding new Lessons content, the big news today is about the way we prese...

NEW FEATURE: Key Moments (Analysis)

NEW FEATURE: Key Moments (Analysis)

DeepGreene
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Hey Team Beta! Today we've got something new and exciting in post-game Analysis for you to check out! Key Moments builds on the familiar "Retry Mistakes" feature to give players a walk-through of different types of important moments in the gam...

A Place to Play Live and Daily: /PLAY

A Place to Play Live and Daily: /PLAY

jdcannon
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Hello Beta club! After months of work, I am pleased to introduce "PLAY" to the beta club today. Play is a combination of /live and /daily into one page so you can play all your games in one place.  Its features - Theater Mode (a new ...