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I am having a hard time understanding the "Game collection" feature. I can add games to a collection, but there is nowhere on the site that actually shows them as far as I can tell. I would expect that I can choose to feature a collection on my profile page at the very least, but no. What is the point of this feature?

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have you tried "https://www.chess.com/library"?

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https://www.chess.com/library

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3 dots, library

Avatar of KevinTheSnipe

So, the solution is to have a bookmark to a URL that can't be navigated to from anywhere on the site? Got it...

Avatar of EnCrossiantIsBrilliant

Well, the announcement says library is going to be removed

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So game collections is a feature that is going away? I literally just discovered it and was like oh this is cool, I can basically favorite a game that I really liked, and over time have a list of cool games i played.

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No it will stay, but you will only have the ability to access it from analysis, and library will be removed

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EnCrossiantIsBrilliant hat geschrieben:

No it will stay, but you will only have the ability to access it from analysis, and library will be removed

The libary from analysis makes it harder to find a certain game than the original library in my opinion.

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The Collections live under Analysis

So you would go to Analysis, then click Game Collections

The original Library page will go away once the feature is 100% rolled out under Analysis

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Ein-Schachspieler wrote:
EnCrossiantIsBrilliant hat geschrieben:

No it will stay, but you will only have the ability to access it from analysis, and library will be removed

The libary from analysis makes it harder to find a certain game than the original library in my opinion.

I agree, though I think I'm biased because I typically don't like change.

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I guess my question at this point is, why add games to collections? What is the intended use (especially since they're only visible from analysis)?

Is the expectation that I'm going to somehow use chess.com and my blitz games here as model games for a repertoire or reference point to use in analysis? Because that's pretty far fetched if you ask me.

Not knowing a thing about the feature I assumed it was to build lists of what I thought were good/great games I played and being able to feature them on my profile page, or at least refer back to them later somehow. But having them only available in analysis seems to imply that the way Im thinking about it is wrong or at odds with the intention of the feature?

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It's basically just moving Library to Analysis. You can store OTB games, games you like, games you want to study or share, tactical positions, basically just like any games database tool and it has similar uses.

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Martin_Stahl hat geschrieben:

It's basically just moving Library to Analysis. You can store OTB games, games you like, games you want to study or share, tactical positions, basically just like any games database tool and it has similar uses.

The key difference to me is that the old collection-site is full screen and the new version is not which makes it more difficult to use. Is a full screen usage for the new collections possible?

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Since it's being integrated, a full screen option probably isn't likely, unless overall analysis has an overhaul