How to turn the coach off
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Loeblix
Jan 14, 2025
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#1
Used to be turned off, now it's back and there's no option to turn it off.
Jan 14, 2025
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#2
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?
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.
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Jan 23, 2025
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#7
My understanding is there are always going to be some locations where coach will show and won't have an option to disable.
Jan 31, 2025
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#9
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).
Jan 31, 2025
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#10
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
Its so infuriating!!!!!!!
Mar 9, 2025
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#12
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.
Apr 5, 2025
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#13
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
11 hrs ago
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#14
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!