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Hello!  I am a beginner player, know how chess plays, learning tactics and concepts.  I am wondering if subscribing to the website is worth it in the sense of how good is the game review and game insights portion?  Will it actually help me improve and explain why the moves I made are bad?  

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No, you already get to review your game with self-analysis. The rest of the features are poor, lessons are okay but not drastically better than youtube videos. You can do puzzles for free on other chess sites.

See my post here on how to get to self-analysis: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/why-does-membership-cost-so-much?page=1#comment-125885926

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Zidanefre wrote:

No, you already get to review your game with self-analysis. The rest of the features are poor, lessons are okay but not drastically better than youtube videos. You can do puzzles for free on other chess sites.

See my post here on how to get to self-analysis: https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/why-does-membership-cost-so-much?page=1#comment-125885926

Wait, that's huge I didn't know you could do that. That's really cool. Thank you!

Admittedly, I do like the little on screen feedback though, lol. Not worth $10/mo though.

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xPosterity wrote:

Admittedly, I do like the little on screen feedback though, lol. Not worth $10/mo though.

definitely not. I only stay as a premium member because I'm running on pre-2021 prices, and that the money lets chess.com host more events, which I feel is overall good for the game. That being said the features offered are lackluster, although in all fairness there isn't much you can monetize in chess anyways.