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I got Fressinet's Lifetime Repertoire Sveshnikov, and I think that it was incredible. One thing which is more an in general sort of comment is that you could have some sort of schedule, where on the platform you can say when you want to have finished different chapters by, and the platform helps you manage this.

@TimDrake1995, what was the main course lines on? As in, was it QGD/QGA/slav/etc.? Or was it more sidelines?

im beginer, play chess when i was young . Now im semi old its time to start learn how to play properly . Wich cours do i need do 1st . I know the basic theory... but i still blender a lot and dont have plane how to play

I would watch all of gothamchess' videos on youtube, maybe consider the chess elevtor course on chessable.

Is it for white or black!?

Would anyone above 1600-1700 play some blitz or rapid games against me and give some feedback on what mistakes I am making. I am playing in an U1800 5 round swiss FIDE 60+30 tournament next friday, and so any feedback would be incredible!

Would like for my openings a way to study it efficiently, so not show me lines I already know. Similar to chessable.
Other than that it takes too long to load pages.(improving this should be prioritized)

Thank you for your feedback! You're referring to https://www.chess.com/courses, right?

That's correct. The loading times are awful
+ a SMART way to study lines would be appreciated(over reviewing all lines, like "all lines are up for review", no1 has time for that.) But IMO the loading times should be prioritized, because it feels really slow

Got it! We are currently working on improving the loading times, so we expect them to get better soon.

Btw, what do you mean by: Would you like for my openings a way to study it efficiently, so do not show me lines I already know? Similar to chessable.

Does this refer to the Chessable' All moves vs Only key moves' study setting? Or is the progress not synced/exported that you're referring to?

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Same as for a course on chessable that, you can pause variations + learn the ones that you are learning + find Difficult more often that the ones that you are have already Matured.

Hmmm, is there any way to ask questions in a course?

Especially for the beginner courses. E.g. on this problem here: https://www.chess.com/courses/train/9606793a-4be0-4eb0-9c3f-07d0a947150f/variations/ae68357e-a54c-45e7-b9fa-8a972c7100ca , why would ..a6 not work just as well instead of exchanging the bishops to prevent the pin? I generally like to try and keep pieces on the board for a middle game check mate and only go into the end game after all else failed.

I can't answer about whether the ability to ask questions on positions is on the roadmap. But I can answer to "why not a6?"

Note that 1.Nxc6 is a piece capture. If we don't capture a piece in return, we will be a piece down. Hence, the point of 1..Bxc4 is not just to prevent the following Bb5 but also to trade pieces. After we take the bishop on c4 the material is equal and if White captures it, we will capture the knight, keeping the material balance.

The problem with 1.. a6 is that we did not capture a piece with this move, hence White is momentarily a piece up and can find a way to save the knight now. The easiest way for that would be 2. Bd5, defending the knight and White is a piece up. There are a few tactical subtleties still because the knight is kind of trapped, but even if we manage to attack it more after that, White has a few tactical resources like e4-e5 exploiting the open e-file against Black's king, as well as the discovered attacks against the rook on a8. The lines can get messy but the point is Bxc4 is a forcing line to keep the material balance by capturing, while a6 gives White the chances to keep the extra piece.

There are some courses I own that haven't been added to chess.com. Most notably for me, The London Attack: An Ambitious Repertoire, by IndrekR, amongst others. Are there plans to continue adding courses from chessable to chess.com, especially from smaller/lesser known authors?

Thanks!

Will there be integration with our opening courses and our play on chess.com. Common blunders we make in game being trained in a courses?

On a similar note, will there be an AI integration that analyzes our play and makes recommendations for courses to purchase or review?

I am working through the recent course by @DrCanChess Preventing Blunders in Chess . This course is so well done covering blunders and how to focus on calculation to avoid the mistakes often made in move decisions. The level of detail that CM Can offers on each variation is incredible as he explains what happens with each option of potential moves. It is a course that is worth going slowly through it to capture the needed information. Having been active on Chessable for over 5 years, it is one of my top courses that I have worked on.

I don't know if this is because of the course I got or the way the system works, but I don't like how it shows me the answer after I got it wrong. I would like to see why I got it wrong and then figure out the correct answer myself. the other thing is with the quizzes working though the days to months to mastery, when I get one wrong I would like it to start again. I feel like if I cant do the quiz after a month with out seeing it, I should start again.

I don't know if this belongs here, if not can you please direct me to when I should post this to help improve chess.com courses.

I have the course "The Positional Chess Patterns Manual" by IM Alex Astaneh, which I purchased through Chess.com. 
I saw a review of the course over on the Chessable site that notes "You're mainly training to recognize the positional pattern and take advantage of it, so puzzles will end after only 1-3 moves, while the annotations will continue as long as needed (nice!)."
On the Chess.com version, however, the quizzes are not ending after a short number of key moves, and instead are making me go through every single move in the (somewhat long) annotations, which is making the course difficult and annoying to use.
Please let me know if it is possible to better align the course with the Chessable version, and if not, whether I can access the course on Chessable without paying for it a second time.
Thank you!

Hey TwoBishopCheckmate,

Please try updating the “study” setting to “key moves” that way you only train those moves.