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On March, 17th 2023 Chess.com published an article about "new game review features". 

My first question would be whether the "type of abonnement (platinum, gold and so on) affects the depth of the review? On my side, I have, for time being, a "platinum", if the depth is as deep as in goldor lower, it can influence my choice for a "lower one" next time I have to renew it. 

My second question would be for everybody who reads these lines: do you think these "new fesatures" are really an improvement? 

On my side, I was not very impressed by the introduction of the difference between "!!" (brilliant) and "!" (great") moves and especially the option to publish each of these. 

Now, chess.com invents subcategories for “book” (theoretical), misses and blunders. Why do they complicate things that should (according to my opinion) remain simple?

Chess may be a complex game, but there is no need for “IT specialists” to complicate it more every third months (or so), especially when our favourite chess site recently had some problems with too many connections during “peak hours”.

I would be interested to read comments on these questions and maybe linked issues about this topic.

Best regards (and enjoy your chess experiences on chess.com).

I believe only Diamond allows a depth change on reviews.

There's another issue in the new "game review features" involving the "performance rating", which claims to be "an estimate of your level of play based on that single game". I am a beginner / intermediate player, and I recently played 17 games against the Komodo9 computer, rated supposedly at 1300. Across my games, my individual performance ratings ranged from 1100 - 1650, with an average of 1332. Fair enough. The computer, however, had individual performance ratings ranging from 800 - 1350, with an average of 1053. It only matched or exceeded 1300 in 2 of the 17 games. How is it that a computer "rated" for 1300 only plays at an average rating of 1053? Is the computer rating too high or are the individual game performance ratings too low?

Recently when I analyze a game no data is coming up under the Details tab. Analysis, Game Review, and Opening are just fine. Only the Details tabe is AFU.

Is this for app as well?

Same here. I don't like that particular change. That, along with the issue I mentioned above about ratings, is something that I would like to provide feedback on to chess.com. Unfortunately, when I searched for "new game review features" and made my post I didn't realize that I ended up in this forum for game analysis. I suspect these comments might be better off elsewhere.

I am quite astonished by these changes, honestly. Tiny cosmetic updates, without addressing the most basic problem that plagues Game review: that it is absolutely not user-friendly at all. If you are interested in any line the engine provides, you practically have to switch to Analysis, because Game review is totally useless.