I've reported multiple people for quitting/stalling (it happens all the time - a major downside of chess.com) and haven't received a reply for at least a year, maybe two. The growth of the website has seen a degradation of the service - perhaps you should hire more moderators with your increased revenue?
Is the Game Report function worthless?
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Nov 4, 2023
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The Game Review available to premium members allows you to go move by move and review each move you made and try to find better moves.
In the above, your move Rb1 should lose your queen. It allows you to see how that could have happened and then to try to find a better defense.
I do find value in the post game review.
Currently I'm having a miserable time at the site with only every ~3rd or 4th game I play being a win while losing everything else horribly. The wins themselves not being anything worthwhile either, with most of them being time scrambles in blitz or one-move blunders just handed to me by my opponents in an equal or even completely lost position. It is frankly disheartening to see reaching a peak of about 1640 in rapid earlier this year only to watch it slowly plummet by a 100 points over the following two months with no real idea of why, how or what is even going wrong.
Naturally I was hoping that the recently revamped Game Report feature could potentially help me find the holes in my play and possibly refine myself in obscure positions and openings. Boy, how wrong I was! The reports illustrate beautifully why using an engine to analyze these games is an utter waste of time. Almost every other move is a mistake, miss or blunder. The explanations are unhelpful and some lines are outright asanine. I have 2 wonderful games to share that I played yesterday to illustrate my point:
I wasn't very happy with this win. Winning a completely lost game due to a one-mover just doesn't feel deserved. At this point I'll take any win, I guess, but I don't remember the last time I actually outplayed my opponent. It's disappointing.
This game provided some crazy computer lines that I wouldn't have seen if you held a gun to my head, but it's absolutely nothing compared to the next one, which is both the absolute worst game I ever played, as well as the most complicated and exhausting:
This game had a grand total of 6 mistakes and 12 blunders. Yes I counted. After what was essentially the most difficult game I ever played - and still lost - I was hugely compelled to just delete my account right there and throw my chessboard into the bin. It just didn't feel real! 55% accuracy, with 59% average between the two players - performance 550 points below my rating. What exactly am I supposed to learn from this analysis? And how am I supposed to analyze games like this in the first place? I played the game horribly, clearly didn't understand the positions at all, so how am I supposed to just conjure up the correct analysis on my own when the engine vomits reports like this?
Is the game report even worth using sub-2000? Because looking at games like this, I am not convinced. I pondered where I should've posted this thread in the first place. I tried asking for genuine help before in the Analysis sub-forum before and got thoroughly shafted. This site has enormous resources for study, in both lessons, puzzles and master game database, so why is none of it helping? How am I constantly playing worse? I get that chess isn't about just winning and arbitrary ratings, but does that mean I have to keep losing and falling? It's frustrating and demotivating, and there is no good place to look for answers. Every new game I start I do it with the expectation of just losing anyway, so what is the point? I'm frankly on the edge of quitting altogether, it's just not fun anymore.