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Suggestion for Improvement on Chess.com: PGN with Error Highlighting in Opening Lessons

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The-Disciple
The-Disciple
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May 7, 2024
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Dear Chess.com Team,

I would like to propose a significant improvement to the opening lessons page on your website. I believe that including PGNs with all the lines covered in the lesson videos, with red highlighting for mistakes, would be an extremely valuable resource for your users.

Benefits of the Suggestion:

  • More Effective Learning: The availability of PGNs would allow students to review the lesson lines interactively, playing them on the board and analyzing the variations. This would reinforce learning and understanding of the nuances of openings.
  • Quick Error Identification: Highlighting mistakes in red in the PGN would make it easier to identify the points that need more attention. This functionality would act as a visual guide, directing the student's study to the most critical aspects of the opening.
  • Greater Student Autonomy: With the PGN and error identification, students would have more autonomy to deepen their studies, reviewing the lesson lines and practicing them individually.
  • More Complete Learning Experience: The combination of explanatory videos, interactive PGN, and error highlighting would make the learning experience in opening lessons more complete and engaging.

Implementation Example:

At the end of each opening lesson video, Chess.com could provide a download button for the PGN of the analyzed game. In the PGN, moves considered strategic or tactical errors by the instructors could be highlighted in red. In addition, it would be interesting to include explanatory comments for each error, detailing the reasons why the move was considered incorrect and the most appropriate alternatives.

Conclusion:

I believe that including PGNs with error highlighting in Chess.com's opening lessons would represent a significant advance in the quality of the platform and would provide an even more rewarding learning experience for its users. This functionality would meet the needs of players of all levels, from beginners to experienced players, who are looking to improve their opening skills in chess.

Thank you for your attention to my suggestion and I hope you will consider it for future implementations on Chess.com.

Sincerely,

[The-Disciple]