Two suggestions for Chess.com

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Hello,

I have two suggestions.

First, I think it would be very beneficial and fun if users could do something similar to the "Computer Workout" with each other.  The workouts would be rated just like Chess960 and Tactics Trainer. A possible setup would be have a database of positions analyzed to approximately equal by a computer, and have two players play that position against each other. For example, you could play common book openings (perhaps 5 - 20 moves in) against each other, common endgames, or middlegames with common themes or tactical opportunities. I think this would be a fun and interesting way for players to expose themsleves to common scenarios, thereby improving faster. This comes without the downside of having to play against the computer, as in Tactics Trainer (at least I think it's a bit more boring to play against the computer). Tactics Trainer is great, but when you know there is decisive move for you to make, I believe you think differently than in regular game scenarios where there may be no tactical opportunities, and this makes the setup unreailistic and less helpful.

My second suggestion is related to the sites functionality. When I click the orange "play live chess", a new window pops up. This happens when I click other links on the site as well. I then have to close out of the old window or I get "multiple logins detected" errors in the middle of my games a few minutes later. It would be great if we had the opportunity to stay in the same window when moving around the site, rather than having new windows / tabs pop up all the time.

Thanks

Dark_Plant

Send in a support ticket, but from my experience, chess.com doesn't really care about feedback concerning the general way they run their site.