real time analytics that I can toggle on/off

I really enjoy playing against the chess.com bots. I like how they each have different styles/personalities that help me broaden my experience.

I also love doing the self analysis after games are complete. As a beginner, it’s helpful for me to see the best moves the engine considered and the relative scores of each.

But my IDEAL learning experience would be to play the bots with real time analytics that I could toggle on/off during the game. For each move I make, I’d like to come up with my own analysis first without any hints and make my next move. THEN I’d like to see the moves the engine considered and the relative scores of each to evaluate how I did. And then I’d like repeat this process for each move I make in the game.

I think this sort of real time analysis will help me learn fastest. Is there anyway to do this via chess.com? (I see a way to turn on the engine for the whole game, but that doesn’t give me a chance to try to come up with the answer myself before the cpu tells me the answer. I also see how I can use hints to show me the best move after I’ve had a chance to think about it, but I’d much rather see the computer’s analysis of multiple plausible moves rather than just the best one.)

If there isn’t a way to do this on chess.com, is there another app with good bots that does provide this feature?

You have selections you tick that’ll show you the evaluation and lines.

I like using engine preparation to work out my middle game plans.

Thanks Chuck. I really appreciate the response. In my ideal world, I’d use the selections you have here but be able to toggle the “suggestions” feature on and off while in the middle of a game. Does anyone know if that functionality exists anywhere? As a beginner level player, it’s really valuable to me to double check that I’m considering all the right candidate moves. But my memory isn’t good enough to look back at the end of the game and remember what I was thinking, which is why I was hoping to do this real time if possible.

I think that called cheating lol?

Honestly, I got to a point where all I see is pattern recognition and tactics.

You should try daily chess because you can go over and research moves.

Lol. TBC I was only planning to use it against bots! :)

Daily chess is a great idea. I’ll give it a shot. Thank you!

I believe that in daily games you can use static help such as books and game databases, but not dynamic help such as with an engine or another person.

The following rules apply to ANY GAME CURRENTLY IN PROGRESS:  
•    For “Live” games (as in ‘over-the-board’ i.e. OTB, games) it is ILLEGAL to consult or employ ANY external aid or resource, including human assistance.
•    For “Daily” games (as in so-called ‘correspondence’ chess) it is LEGAL to consult passive resources such as books, articles, online databases, opening explorers, etc.  However, it is ILLEGAL to use computers/chess engines to calculate moves, or to consult with another human about the game,

I agree. In bot games, it's nice to be able to think about what you think is the best move, and then compare the move you came up with to what the engine would do. I couldn't find a way to get it through the built-in interface, but if you have some basic web dev skills this is pretty easy to build yourself

I'm going to introduce here a script you can use yourself that you only need to setup once, and then you can load it anytime (but only in bot games) by pressing a single button (super easy). It will enable you to toggle the hint arrows by simply pressing backtick on the top-left of your keyboard: `

Here is how you do it:

1. Open your browser's bookmark manager
2. Select create a new bookmark
3. In the URL field, paste the code at the bottom of this post
4. Name the bookmark something like "toggle hints"

Note: this script is entirely local (it does not talk to any server or anything like that for safety reasons), so this could stop working in the future if chess.com updates their website UI (not that likely in the near future)

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