Can't Find Open Challenges

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Avatar of Toppercat5

For some reason I can't find the link to look at open challenges. I have looked everywhere on the site and can't find the list of players looking for a game.The instructions say to click on play and look for the link but it is not there. Help please! Thanks!

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Toppercat5 wrote:

For some reason I can't find the link to look at open challenges. I have looked everywhere on the site and can't find the list of players looking for a game.The instructions say to click on play and look for the link but it is not there. Help please! Thanks!

https://www.chess.com/play/online

Avatar of Toppercat5

This is on my PC....not the mobile app. Any ideas??

Avatar of DjVortex

For some incomprehensible reason after the recent GUI redesign the open challenges have been hidden behind several (somewhat unintuitive) mouse clicks. Click on "Play" on the left pane, then "play online" on the right pane, then in the "new game" tab click on "custom game", and then the "open challenges" tab.

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Thanks,  that seemed to work but now shows a "grid" format where as before it was an easy to read list and just choose open challenges at the bottom of the list. The site went from being relatively easy to really complicated..at least for me.

Avatar of DjVortex

I, too, think that the grid is not very good especially because it's so small. Many times the open challenges overlap and it's easy to click the wrong one. This is especially annoying if you wanted to play an unranked game but end up playing a ranked one.

Avatar of Toppercat5

I agree...there so many easier aspects of this site before they made it more complex...if it works...don't fix it. The grid is not user friendly at all...

Avatar of rsolo

I am not a fan of the new UI for open challenges.  Why make it so many clicks in?
I liked it much better when daily chess was a separate list from live chess. 
It would help if the "open challenges" page was at least bookmarkable.