Why the new "Game Review" "Retry" button is a puzzle and why that is bad.

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JackJordan9632

I play about 50 blitz games every day.  I would like to be fast enough to play bullet, and then play hundreds of bullet games, but I am just not fast enough for that yet.  Given this, one of the goals I have in improving is to be a faster player.  I use Game Review when I know I made a mistake, and I want to quickly know the answer.  If I have to, within Game Review, click on "Analysis" for every move I want to review, this becomes a unnecessary cost of time I am not interested in paying.  Why use Game Review, when I can just play another game?  That is always the question.  As long as Game Review has a low time cost, it is worthwhile, but if it becomes cumbersome it becomes less valuable than playing an actual game.

I have a second point as well though.  The Puzzle section already exists.  If the developers want to allow a player to retry their mistakes, put that capability here instead of inserting an unnecessary cost to Game Review.  For myself, I'll do puzzles while listening to a podcast or doing something that splits my attention enough that I wouldn't really be able to play a game of chess anyway.  The time cost of Puzzle content isn't as much of a factor as it is when you are actually playing games.

Martin_Stahl

You can turn on Show Best Moves and it won't show Retry