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...
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...
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...
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...
Hey, Team Beta! We've added a new feature for those of you who connect your Facebook accounts to your Chess.com account making it easier to find and crush you friends in a friendly game of chess, or puzzle battle... Just head to y...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Hey Team Beta! As some of you may have noticed, we've lifted the curtain on some new Achievements today - as well as a brand new type of Award: Books! Of course you earn these by playing games featuring different openings! Also, we hav...
Hey Chess.com BETA members! I have a fun treat for you - we are introducing Automate, a totally new and weird way to play chess. Here are the rules: Welcome to Automate, where you and your opponent both set up your pieces and then watch ...
Hello Beta Testers!! We are happy to announce that we have a new version of our Club Chat. It is only available in Beta club so if you are a member of other clubs it will not be visible there. As always we really appreciate your feedback so let me...
Outside of live chess, nowhere in the world are more games of chess played than Vs Computer here on Chess.com. Upgrades are long overdue and today we release the first round of them to Beta users. We've added 3 modes to choose from so...
Greetings, Beta-teers! [EDIT: The new boards have been removed from beta for the time being while we fix some things you helped us to find. Thank you!] Play Daily Chess? If so, please check it out: Today we are excited to roll out a brand new ...
Yo Beta! We are testing bughouse arenas today: First, you need to join this club: https://www.chess.com/club/bughouse then head over to this link: https://www.chess.com/live#r=162577 The event starts at 12:30 PT / 20:30 GMT
Hey Beta, Today, we just updated how puzzles are served to you for Puzzle Rush. Instead of relying on your connection and sending you once puzzle at a time we are sending a larger set of puzzles at the beginning on your rush and then continui...
Hey Beta testers! We now have a new feature available for you to check out - Group chat. We use the same technology for direct chat but now you can have up to 10 participants. You also get the same cool features like Browse through pages ...
This is kind of a big deal! Today, we are so happy to let Team Beta have first crack at a brand new member Home page that is completely new and extremely customizable!... Don't play Daily Chess or read Notes from other members...
Now you can throw down vs your friends on demand. NOTE: You can only challenge members of beta currently. If you send a challenge to someone, not in beta they will not get the challenge. You can challenge up to 10 frien...
For those of you with DGT boards, you can now scrap the mouse in favor of playing from a real board for your online chess action. Here is how to do it: 1.) Toggle the setting in live chess: 2.) Connect the DGT board to U...
Hello Team BETA! We are super excited to announce that a few days ago, on 9/30/19 we released a new Android version to BETA. It took one year, thousands of tickets, crazy dev and product effort to have this app see the light of day. A...
