On the website Analysis, there is a flip board option available by hovering over the settings cog at the top-right of the board.
I don't know if this is different on a mobile app - I have never used one.
Need analysis available from Black's point of view.
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Also, reading the notation doesnt take alot memorization, you can Just count the squares and over time you'll get the hang of it
also how does getting top 3% in standerlized testing say that "above average intelligence"
Read some chess books in descriptive notation, e.g. "My 60 Memorable Games" - Fischer
That notation has no bias white/black and counts black's rows from black's point of view.
Fischer was a staunch defender of descriptive notation and he vehemently battled algebraic editions of his book.
Jun 5, 2021
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Santoy_UK wrote:
On the website Analysis, there is a flip board option available by hovering over the settings cog at the top-right of the board.
I don't know if this is different on a mobile app - I have never used one.
I don't think many people understand the problem. I know you can flip the board on the left side of your screen.
What I want is to be able to view the actual analysis (right side of screen) from blacks point of view. Not only is that not available anymore but it seems like the whole UI has gone to trash it's very hard to analyze right now even without my personal problems.
Something has gone very wrong with chess.com programming.
Jun 5, 2021
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Martin_Stahl wrote:
It's a bug, staff is aware, and should be fixed at some point."
I really hope you are right. I used to be a game tester for Microsoft so this is right up my alley seems SUPER buggy...
As we would say in the testing field... "does not perform as expected"... basically it's a fail for a game tester.
Jun 5, 2021
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tokadub wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:
It's a bug, staff is aware, and should be fixed at some point."
I really hope you are right. I used to be a game tester for Microsoft so this is right up my alley seems SUPER buggy...
As we would say in the testing field... "does not perform as expected"... basically it's a fail for a game tester.
It used to show based as described and it had been bug reported multiple times. Last time I asked about it, I was told it should be fixed, but just hadn't been deployed. Haven't heard anything since but it should still be in process.
At one point I scored top 3% (percentile) in my states mandatory testing...
So objectively, I am above average intelligence...
I don't have great memory though, I need to see the analysis from the point of view of black. I don't think I have good enough memory to ever even find the analysis from white's point of view to be useful for me when I'm playing black...
This is very strange design changes... you used to be able to analyze games from blacks point of view (that was the whole reason I signed up for a paying account on chess.com...). I thought I could use the analysis in a way that helps me.
Now that whites on the bottom in analysis it doesn't help me at all. I can't even remember 1 board state if my life depended on it.
People like me need black on bottom analysis or it does us no good. We can't memorize all the names of every board piece so it doesn't matter if you are black or white (it's extremely inefficient to try to analyze based on a UI that is 99% notation)... I think that's actually impossible for me.
On top of that even if I did get comfortable reading notation when playing black from white's point of view... I'M A VISUAL OR HANDS ON LEARNER. I LEARN NOTHING FROM THIS TERRIBLE UI WITH JUST NOTATION FOR LINES FROM WHITE'S POINT OF VIEW???
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?