Relive All Your Brilliant Moves With Our New Advanced Stats Feature

You're smarter than you think, and we can prove it. You've probably played more brilliant moves than you remember—and you can now review them all with our new advanced stats feature! Diamond members can now relive their greatest moments and understand their play on a deeper level right from their stats page.

Here's what you need to know about the new feature:

• Find Your Advanced Stats
• Check Out Your Brilliant Moves
• Understand Your Chess
• How Are Ratings Calculated?

Find Your Advanced Stats

Finding your advanced stats is easy. Click your profile picture in the sidebar menu to go to your stats, then switch to the Stats tab. 

Make sure the advanced stats option is on, and once your stats load, you'll be ready to enjoy the new feature.

Check Out Your Brilliant Moves

And why not start by reminding yourself how brilliant you can be? Clicking the Brilliant Moves option or going to Chess.com/brilliant will take you to a collection of all the double-exclam moves you've ever played in rated games. 

From that page, you can go to each of the games where you had a brilliant move. You can also use the filters to the left to see only specific types of brilliant moves—like every time you sacrificed THE ROOOOOK!

Understand Your Chess

But besides enjoying your past successes, you can also set yourself up for an even brighter future. The Advanced Stats page goes on a deep dive into your game history to understand your gameplay. You'll notice that, for each time control, you get different ratings for each aspect of the game. Those ratings compare how you perform in a given area of the game to other members who are in the same rating range as you for the specified time control. This is already a good starting point for understanding your strengths and weaknesses. 

Selecting one of the time controls will help you understand your stats, with more detailed rating information for your openings, tactics, strategy, and endgames in the selected time control. Here's where you can take a step back and see where you shine and where you can improve. For example, you might notice that while your openings and tactics are above other members at your level, you might be lacking some endgame understanding.

You can go even deeper and get a breakdown of your performance in each of those aspects of the game. Selecting tactics, for example, will give you an even more detailed picture of your play. Here you can see if you struggle more with spotting checkmates or trapped pieces. You can also toggle to see what types of tactics you allow the most. 

With this knowledge, you can optimize your next training session by focusing more on the areas you need to improve the most.

How Are Ratings Calculated?

Looking at your advanced stats, you might be wondering how we calculate the ratings for each part of your play. For each aspect of your game—Openings, Tactics, Strategy, Endgames—every stat is graded with a move classification. If you are better than other players at your rating, then you will get a positive move classification. The better you are relative to your peers, the better the move classification you'll get. Conversely, you'll get a negative move classification if you're behind your peers in some area.

To give you a rating, we then aggregate your skill across all the advanced stats in a given category (openings, tactics, and so on) to get a holistic picture of whether you're better or worse than your peers overall in that area. The better you are, the higher your rating.

As you play games, your more recent games will always contribute more to your advanced stats than games far in the past. This is similar to standard ratings; if you had won your most recent game instead of losing, your rating would be 16 points higher. But if you won a game three months ago instead of losing, it likely wouldn’t make a difference in your rating today if your underlying skill is the same—past rating changes wash out in the long run as you play more games.

Have you checked out your brilliant moves and advanced stats yet? Share your most stunning move below, and let us know what you think of the new feature!