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Chesscom's new Game review, what the heck happened?

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TheMidnightExpress12
Martin_Stahl wrote:

You don't have to follow the admin that posts an announcement, just have announcement alerts on if you're in the Beta club.

The update should have been announced with the @chesscom bot since it is a major thing unlike other updates in chess.com. Some people don't have notifications on in all clubs. And people in the comments of the announcement wanted to change it back to the old game review but it did not happen

Martin_Stahl
TheMidnightExpress12 wrote:
Martin_Stahl wrote:

You don't have to follow the admin that posts an announcement, just have announcement alerts on if you're in the Beta club.

The update should have been announced with the @chesscom bot since it is a major thing unlike other updates in chess.com. Some people don't have notifications on in all clubs. And people in the comments of the announcement wanted to change it back to the old game review but it did not happen

The Beta related announcements are only released to the Beta club so that account would never be used for Beta releases

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davidk67

I am not among the biggest complainers about the new Game Review (although I agree it's terrible), but I am wondering many months into this mess what is going on? Can chess.com just tell people to love it or leave it and no changes will be made? Or will chess.com be adjusting some aspects of the interface? Or what if anything is going on?

toridota

Oh wow. First time seeing this.

richnfamous
davidk67 wrote:

Or will chess.com be adjusting some aspects of the interface? Or what if anything is going on?

experience during the last many months tells me (and others) that they'll do what they want. they took a perfectly good review system and used a lot of resources on making it a lot worse

PapaDudo

The new game review layout is a real pain.

One of the main reasons for paying premium hasn’t just been worsened, but turned into an opposite.

The forced visual flyover of all moves during the initial analysis is practically worthless, steals time is glitchy and annoying. What was wrong with having game summary and detailed moves on the same screen with scrolling? Game analysis options are way inferior comparing to the previous layout.

I am pissed during and after each game review.

Has this change passed any real user testing whatsoever?

Please reverse back to the previous superior design or at least provide a setup option to do so.

Wittgenstein76
@PapaDudo chesscom doesn’t care about your feelings. They’d rather you cancel your membership than to admit they made a terrible change. It’s like an imperial decree. They aren’t gonna fix it. I recommend you do what I did and cancel your subscription and get familiar with Lichess or all the gms seem to use chessbase
ArneLondon

First ever post on here, just signed in to say new game review sucks balls!

Azzarus72

I played the known Tennyson gambit and the review bot told me I made a mistake and lost a pawn lol. Everytime I made a move that got me closer to checkmate it told me I missed an opportunity to pin a knight or win a pawn lol. Even when 1 or 2 moves away from mate it's ragging on my moves.
The review can be so bad.