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The Cheekiest Chess.com Update Of 2023

The Cheekiest Chess.com Update Of 2023

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It's the final month—and the final Chess.com monthly update—of 2023, and we've saved the best for last! Read about amazing events, enter competitions, and get the chance to rematch Mittens.

Here's what this monthly update covers: 


Product & Engineering

New (and old) bots, plenty of puzzles, and a better way to review all of your brilliant moves.

Chess.com bots headlined by Mittens with the caption

If you are in tech and would like to join our team, we're hiring!

Events

The year is almost over, but there's still plenty of action to go before we hit 2024.

Photos of the 2023 CCT Finals participants with the question

Community

End the year on a high note by winning the 2023 CCT Finals Prediction Contest.

Image promoting the 2023 CCT Finals prediction contest on Chess.com

Content

Here are some of our favorite content highlights from the last month.

Chessable

Two of the chess world's most popular and useful courses have been adapted to the Chessable platform over the last month. Check them out below.

An image promoting IM Danny Rensch's course for beginners on Chessable.

ChessKid

The future of chess is on ChessKid. Catch up on the latest achievements by CK prodigies!

A promo image for the ChessKid National Festival in 2023.

Fair Play

The Fair Play team, as always, kept Chess.com a safe and fair place to play last month.

Fair Play stats for November:

  • 54,949 Fair Play closures (including 3 titled players)
  • 80.3K mute actions
  • 71K accounts muted
  • 109.8K abuse closures

Support

November was another super-productive month for the Support team, who handled over 89,000 requests.

  • Average Time to First Response: 1 day, 5 hours
  • Total Requests Received: 89,097
  • Average Quality by Member Rating: 95%
  • Total Ratings: 6,647

Thank you for being part of our amazing community, and we hope that 2024 brings you plenty of chess-based fun, learning, and happiness. See you next year!

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