I was maybe half way through the old lessons and want to continue but this right now is confusing for me and I don't have a view of where exactly I was or what the next lesson should be. It was definitely not the Kasparov games which pops up now for my next lesson. It would be good to have an index to the 'old' lessons.
NEW: Lessons get a Fresh Look

I was maybe half way through the old lessons and want to continue but this right now is confusing for me and I don't have a view of where exactly I was or what the next lesson should be. It was definitely not the Kasparov games which pops up now for my next lesson. It would be good to have an index to the 'old' lessons.
I agree vichardy. I still can't figure out where my next lesson is coming from, or how to return to it. That's something I often do, returning to lessons where the challenges were beyond me the first time. One thing that you might find helpful is to click on Guide to the right, and that will lead you to the old lessons (except for Mastery level). It's not as clear as the old Guide, but it's something in the interim. I've been exchaging emails with Chess.com support. They've been nice to deal with, but I also share your frustration, as do some of my students. Having the old Guide still available seems so simple?!

Has anyone had success with the new "Guide" tab? It seems totally inert to me. The beauty of the old guide was that I could clearly scroll through all available lessons, and see which ones I had done, etc.
The new "Guide" tab just lists 4 titles, and "...", none of which lead anywhere. Any insights welcome.
Thanks!
If you click on the "..." you should see an option to reveal the Courses in that section.
Thanks DeepGreene! (I hadn't realized that I had to re-click the mini-window that popped up)
But they only go as far as the Advanced level, I was a few lessons into the level beyond that (was it called Mastery?) --- the software seems to know what my "next lesson" should be, but I like re-doing lessons in my current level that I don't absorb as well --- right now, only the first 4 levels are in Guide
Thanks again for any insights!
Aris -
I found myself in a similar situation where I couldn't immediately find the lessons I had on my 'to-do' list. It took a little hunting & pecking, but I was eventually able to find everything I wanted to do and/or re-do:
1) if you know the title of the lesson (luckily I'd made a separate list), type that title - even just the key word of the title - into the search field and bookmark those pages. It's not 100% effective, so for the lessons this doesn't turn up...
2a) on the main lessons page (https://www.chess.com/lessons), in the "level" drop down menu select "Mastery":
2b) ...and in the "sort" drop-down, select "release":
2c) Scroll to the bottom of the page, and click on "last":
2d) Scroll to the bottom of that last page where you'll see the Mastery lessons start in chronological order.
2e) as you scroll up again through those lessons, open each of the lessons you want to target in a new tab, repeat for subsequent pages.
2f) bookmark all open pages into one "lessons" folder and VOILA! your own personalized lesson plan.
You can do this for the other lesson levels as well.
Hope that helps.
- M

Hi FiddlerCrabSeason, so I tried your steps above, and when I got to the last page, my current lesson (Nakamura-KID) wasn't there. I didn't find it until page 6, and my previous lesson (Williams-Evans) was further BELOW with a big green checkmark below it. I'm not sure, but I think these are the only two lesson sets that I've done in Mastery, and they were just prompted to me (I didn't choose them).
Anyway, it seems that I could theoretically search for lessons I didn't do so well on, and start them explicitly. If I do that, will the software change my Next Lesson to the next lesson in the lesson set that I've just selected? I appreciate your help in your comment, but I would still love that old linear list. Without it, the choice of next lesson set almost seems random?! Anyway, thank you VERY MUCH!!

... If I do that, will the software change my Next Lesson to the next lesson in the lesson set that I've just selected? ...
That's been my experience, But note that in the case where you've completed a course, while you will get fed the "next" lesson in that course, upon completion of each lesson you will also get the "course completed!" pop up. Not a huge deal. Just ignore the message and keep working through the lessons in that course. Of course there's also the nuclear option of resetting all your lesson history back to zero.

...Anyway, it seems that I could theoretically search for lessons I didn't do so well on, and start them explicitly. ..
It seems the search function will only find courses, and not specific lessons. So while you could search for "Nakamura" or "Evans" and find the Nakamur's KID or Williams Evans gambit courses, to find a specific lesson, you have to open each of the courses that your search produced, and scroll through all the lessons in that course. Not awesome.
Perhaps staff could chime in here for some guidance on finding specific lessons?

... If I do that, will the software change my Next Lesson to the next lesson in the lesson set that I've just selected? ...
That's been my experience, But note that in the case where you've completed a course, while you will get fed the "next" lesson in that course, upon completion of each lesson you will also get the "course completed!" pop up. Not a huge deal. Just ignore the message and keep working through the lessons in that course. Of course there's also the nuclear option of resetting all your lesson history back to zero.
Thanks again. So if I understand this correctly: I've done the first lesson in Nakamura-KID, so it's offering me the next lesson in that set. That's no problem. When the set ends (I think it's 5 lessons), I'll get the popup that I competed Nakamura-KID, which will from now on appear with a big green checkmark across the middle. Again, that's no problem. Then the software will offer me the next set of lessons. This is the part that I don't get anymore. It USED to be the next set of lessons listed in the old Guide. This was easy to see, because it followed (or at least seemed to follow) the linear order in the old Guide. But now, it'll pick SOMETHING UN-FORECAST-ABLE from the new list of Mastery lessons. So now, what if I DON'T start the offered lesson set, but I go into the lists and choose another lesson set? From what you're saying, that should reset my Next Lesson to this lesson set I've just manually chosen.
If that's the case, then I think I can live with that. Like right now, I feel I have a LOT more to learn about fundamentals like rook+pawn endgames before I try to understand Nakamura's GM-level games lol

...So now, what if I DON'T start the offered lesson set, but I go into the lists and choose another lesson set? From what you're saying, that should reset my Next Lesson to this lesson set I've just manually chosen.
If that's the case, then I think I can live with that. Like right now, I feel I have a LOT more to learn about fundamentals like rook+pawn endgames before I try to understand Nakamura's GM-level games lol
Yes re: next lessons. That's been my experience.
Ditto re: Naka's KID - if I can ever figure out how to confidently handle white's Q-side pawns against any non-GM's KID, I might - might - be ready to try to understand Naka's KID.
Dare to dream.

...So now, what if I DON'T start the offered lesson set, but I go into the lists and choose another lesson set? From what you're saying, that should reset my Next Lesson to this lesson set I've just manually chosen.
If that's the case, then I think I can live with that. Like right now, I feel I have a LOT more to learn about fundamentals like rook+pawn endgames before I try to understand Nakamura's GM-level games lol
Yes re: next lessons. That's been my experience.
Ditto re: Naka's KID - if I can ever figure out how to confidently handle white's Q-side pawns against any non-GM's KID, I might - might - be ready to try to understand Naka's KID.
Dare to dream.
Thanks again!! I'll know for sure after the next 4 Naka-KID lessons ...

You CAN find them by lesson, but that comes after courses in order.
We are working on a "Bookmark" feature now.

You CAN find them by lesson, but that comes after courses in order.
We are working on a "Bookmark" feature now.
sounds good

You CAN find them by lesson, but that comes after courses in order.
We are working on a "Bookmark" feature now.
Thanks, will the "Bookmark" feature retain the last lesson set we accessed, and therefore figure out the next lesson in that lesson set? I guess if we just did the last lesson in a lesson set, then the software will choose the next lesson set, but we could change that by starting any other lesson set we want instead?
P.S. what do you mean by "after courses in order"? what order? the order of the old Guide perhaps?

Has anyone had success with the new "Guide" tab? It seems totally inert to me. The beauty of the old guide was that I could clearly scroll through all available lessons, and see which ones I had done, etc.
The new "Guide" tab just lists 4 titles, and "...", none of which lead anywhere. Any insights welcome.
Thanks!
If you click on the "..." you should see an option to reveal the Courses in that section.
Thanks DeepGreene! (I hadn't realized that I had to re-click the mini-window that popped up)
But they only go as far as the Advanced level, I was a few lessons into the level beyond that (was it called Mastery?) --- the software seems to know what my "next lesson" should be, but I like re-doing lessons in my current level that I don't absorb as well --- right now, only the first 4 levels are in Guide
Thanks again for any insights!
You're not really missing anything. Mastery was (and still is - although less visibly) basically a catch-all category/level to describe any/every Course that wasn't in the Guide. The All Lessons tab is basically where you search/select what used to be called "Mastery" courses.

After clicking on "guide", the show/hide section buttons aren't working for me today (09/29/20).
Hmm!.. Still seems ok for me. They are stuck open or closed - or a combination of each?

After clicking on "guide", the show/hide section buttons aren't working for me today (09/29/20).
Hmm!.. Still seems ok for me. They are stuck open or closed - or a combination of each?
all open.

Has anyone had success with the new "Guide" tab? It seems totally inert to me. The beauty of the old guide was that I could clearly scroll through all available lessons, and see which ones I had done, etc.
The new "Guide" tab just lists 4 titles, and "...", none of which lead anywhere. Any insights welcome.
Thanks!
If you click on the "..." you should see an option to reveal the Courses in that section.
Thanks DeepGreene! (I hadn't realized that I had to re-click the mini-window that popped up)
But they only go as far as the Advanced level, I was a few lessons into the level beyond that (was it called Mastery?) --- the software seems to know what my "next lesson" should be, but I like re-doing lessons in my current level that I don't absorb as well --- right now, only the first 4 levels are in Guide
Thanks again for any insights!
You're not really missing anything. Mastery was (and still is - although less visibly) basically a catch-all category/level to describe any/every Course that wasn't in the Guide. The All Lessons tab is basically where you search/select what used to be called "Mastery" courses.
Thanks DeepGreene, now that makes a lot of sense, as I couldn't help but notice that the difficulty levels of the remaining courses was all over the place, many are definitely not genuine "Mastery" level.
Having said that, I still wouldn't mind the old Mastery list from the old Guide. In the new Guide tab, they still show the other 4 course lists from the 4 levels before Mastery. Why not include Mastery?!
Thanks again though, your post helps me get my mind around the disparate remaining difficulty levels.

After clicking on "guide", the show/hide section buttons aren't working for me today (09/29/20).
Hmm!.. Still seems ok for me. They are stuck open or closed - or a combination of each?
all open.
I click on the "..." for each level, and that'll momentarily pop up a little box that says "Hide Section". Which I then click on. If you don't see that little box, maybe that's a new "secure" browser setting?
Dunno what else to suggest, good luck with it.
While the new design has pros & cons, IMHO the avatars are totally unnecessary and more importantly, a distraction from the content of the instructional text.