Chess.com app feature suggestion

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I've been playing on the phone app since 2014 and didn't really use the browser website to play for the first many years of my usage of chess.com.

It wasn't until a friend of mine made some premoves in one of our daily games that I even learned of that feature and thought that was amazing. I was confused on how he did it because I couldn't find it in the app at all. Of course I eventually figured out it was available only on the browser version but I think this would be an amazing addition to the app's version.

I would really like to take advantage of the premove feature using the app because I may not be near a computer and sometimes I really want to make a few premoves against some opponents that I know will not make a move for another full 3 days (or whatever the time control is) unless that move is immediately available while they are online to play.

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tonyklemm wrote:

I've been playing on the phone app since 2014 and didn't really use the browser website to play for the first many years of my usage of chess.com.

 

It wasn't until a friend of mine made some premoves in one of our daily games that I even learned of that feature and thought that was amazing. I was confused on how he did it because I couldn't find it in the app at all. Of course I eventually figured out it was available only on the browser version but I think this would be an amazing addition to the app's version.

I would really like to take advantage of the premove feature using the app because I may not be near a computer and sometimes I really want to make a few premoves against some opponents that I know will not make a move for another full 3 days (or whatever the time control is) unless that move is immediately available while they are online to play.

Until then, the Android chrome browser works perfectly well on a phone. I prefer it over the app.

Avatar of tonyklemm
notmtwain wrote:
tonyklemm wrote:

I've been playing on the phone app since 2014 and didn't really use the browser website to play for the first many years of my usage of chess.com.

 

It wasn't until a friend of mine made some premoves in one of our daily games that I even learned of that feature and thought that was amazing. I was confused on how he did it because I couldn't find it in the app at all. Of course I eventually figured out it was available only on the browser version but I think this would be an amazing addition to the app's version.

I would really like to take advantage of the premove feature using the app because I may not be near a computer and sometimes I really want to make a few premoves against some opponents that I know will not make a move for another full 3 days (or whatever the time control is) unless that move is immediately available while they are online to play.

Until then, the Android chrome browser works perfectly well on a phone. I prefer it over the app.

True, but it seems a bit slower than the app to me. This would just be a minor quality of use change. Navigating the browser through the phone seems a little cumbersome to me. I feel that the app's purpose is to make it easy to access chess.com and it certainly does that. But it seems it does so at the minor cost of some functionality.

 

It's a give and take I suppose, but this would be something I think is doable.

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I could understand however, if the reason they don't currently have some features on the app is to influence people to actually visit the site. But I don't really see any benefit to that through their perspective. Not that I would know better than them, but I can't think of one immediately that wouldn't be gained through players accessing the app as opposed to the site.

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hi, same for me too Chrome Android works perfectly on a phone

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