How to turn the coach off

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Avatar of Loeblix
Used to be turned off, now it's back and there's no option to turn it off.
Avatar of Martin_Stahl
Loeblix wrote:
Used to be turned off, now it's back and there's no option to turn it off.

Coach can't be turned off in all locations. Where are you trying to remove it?

Avatar of Loeblix

Game review, puzzles. A few days ago it didnt show up.

Avatar of KashanIrima

Same issue, for game review. Always have it off, suddenly it's on. I tried to turn it off both from the game review screen and the account settings. They seem to have removed the option to do so. Personally, the coaches make me cringe.

Avatar of Loeblix

yeah same...

Avatar of KashanIrima

Bump

Avatar of Martin_Stahl

My understanding is there are always going to be some locations where coach will show and won't have an option to disable.

Avatar of Loeblix

No, bdfore you could select none in the coaches settings.

Avatar of mattbukramnik

The coach ruins it completely. We already have a hint button if we want a hint. Now, whether we want it or not, we have this intrusive signposting as to what sort of puzzle it is (eg take or mate) which means we have a very different (ie easier, boring, hand-holding) challenge, and our puzzle rating is truly meaningless as opposed to (in some, simple way) benchmarked. The coach is an engagement play (ie How do we drive puzzle engagement up, and push coach premium levels up across the site? Remove the puzzle "barrier" for non-chess lovers by offering a quick pathway to high puzzle ratings in the guise of teaching. Oh, and ruin the puzzle experience). Imagine sitting down to solve a cryptic crossword and getting extra 'coach' clues ("could be an anagram" "Look for abbrevaitions/latin"). What a colossally greedy and damning intrusion. I am cancelling my subscription (again).

Avatar of Martin_Stahl
mattbukramnik wrote:

The coach ruins it completely. We already have a hint button if we want a hint. Now, whether we want it or not, we have this intrusive signposting as to what sort of puzzle it is (eg take or mate) which means we have a very different (ie easier, boring, hand-holding) challenge, and our puzzle rating is truly meaningless as opposed to (in some, simple way) benchmarked. The coach is an engagement play (ie How do we drive puzzle engagement up, and push coach premium levels up across the site? Remove the puzzle "barrier" for non-chess lovers by offering a quick pathway to high puzzle ratings in the guise of teaching. Oh, and ruin the puzzle experience). Imagine sitting down to solve a cryptic crossword and getting extra 'coach' clues ("could be an anagram" "Look for abbrevaitions/latin"). What a colossally greedy and damning intrusion. I am cancelling my subscription (again).

You can disable the hints by using the settings icon on the feature

Avatar of SavioBlue

Its so infuriating!!!!!!!

Avatar of XopherH

Agreed. I would have thought that companies had learned their lesson back in the 90s when Microsoft inflicted Clippy on the world. But apparently, we still need cutesy avatars guiding us along.

I am begging you, please allow us to turn off the Coach feature.

Avatar of JacksonBrowne2024

Get rid of the coach… don’t want it, don’t need it.

Ruins the fun of the ap

There is help available already for those who want it

Avatar of mattbukramnik

Puzzles ruined again by a fresh dumb play to get all to use the coach function. This tier levels are infuriating. I just want to play and tease my own intuitions through play . I don't want to 'learn' by being compelled to progress through some infantile time-sapping U/X out of dungeons and dragons!! If it ain't broke folks!

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Loeblix wrote:

Game review, puzzles. A few days ago it didnt show up.

https://www.chess.com/settings/coach?section=puzzles

Avatar of Bullmoose328

Coach is annoying and distracting. Don't want Coach. Don't like Coach. Users should be able to eject him.

Avatar of kevando

Is there still not an option to disable the coach in lessons . It is really annoying . If that’s what you were talking about .with me I like the lessons and then click onto next in the lessons but when I click it takes me onto coaches lessons . Really ruined it . Please reverse that

Avatar of GueenQambitDamn

Man, coach is freanking annoying. Just let us turn it off.

Avatar of Martin_Stahl

Coach is becoming an integral part of many feature. There are some configuration options in some features but I don't believe the option to remove it completely is going to be available.