Wondering if you’ve been improving your French Defense this week vs last month?π€Wonder no more, just explore your new Opening Stats! π
Opening stats can be found in the title drop down of your Stats page.
On this new page you can now bro...
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...
Have you been yearning for a place to store and revisit your favorite games? Never fear, Library is here! π
Now you can compile your very own Collections of personal, master, and all other games! Games can be added to collections from any sou...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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