what are the best tools on chess.com

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Galahad25

How should someone who is a beginner to intermediate use the tools on chess.com most effectively? What should you focus on the most, lessons, drills, tactics, or game analysis? There is so much that chess.com has to offer, but I want to make sure I am actually using it to get better and not just have fun doing puzzles or something. Thanks!

V3RD1CT

So if Since you are a premium member then u are lucky coz chess.com has a vassssssssssssssssst x10000000 features you solve millions of tactics and Video lessons From grandmasters Best game analysis drills , No ads on chess.com and since I told u Millions of tactics that doesn't mean you will solve a 1000 tactics in a day you have to do like 20 or 30, Puzzle rush is another my fav feature,puzzle battle, Puzzle theme solving ,BIG VIDEO LIBRARY, And best chess.com Experience....And u also get Max analysis in your game report which can be nice when you don't understand a foolish seeming move is the best one So u can see in depth at 30 or 40 which is nice..

V3RD1CT

If I missed something then sorry coz there are sooooooo many features that it's hard to remember all lop

V3RD1CT

Lol*

Galahad25

Thank you, I appreciate the response!

Don

Definitely the Chess.com lessons, I'd recommend anyone from 0 - 1500 checking them out.

dikmasterson

Save the PGN files after every game, upload them for analysis. You can also upload them to Lichess.

It's like watching the replay of a sports game moment, or a movie scene. Watching things unfold step by step.

 

Galahad25

I see the appeal of the game analysis, however it can be slightly confusing to look at. Should you just focus on the blunders when running the analysis? 

KxKmate
The main ideas are to look at all your mistakes and see what was the better idea/move; then try to understand why you missed it. Especially look for trends (do you miss forking ideas often, for example?) to hone in on fixing.
Galahad25

Got you. That's good advice thanks.

Galahad25

does it show potential variations for the "better/best" move when it's doing the analysis? 

KxKmate
I’m unfamiliar with the particulars of the game analysis function here. However you can always play around with the engine to figure out why something works and something else doesn’t. If you get stuck, ask on the forums here.
MSteen
Diwaditya wrote:

Without money all tools of chess.com are superficial and useless but the designs and trash articles make you feel it's helpful to improve chess.

How can only 8 puzzles/day with easy baby tactics like back rank mate, scholars mate, pawn promotion and other generated puzzles help you improve? 

Chess.com also displays whole lot of ads and make money by using their poor community literally chess.com is for love of money not chess.

They never even took a look at https://www.chess.com/variants of the mobile site.

Premium account are giving too much profile to chess.com and the ads which chess.com's using to ill treat the free chess improvers are also making profit.

 

Sorry, for saying the truth but "Lichess is thousand times better than this!"

Chess.com does depend on $$ to survive and function. Note the ".com" part. What they offer premium members is fantastic. What they offer non-paying members is a small taste, a tiny appetizer to get you to sign up. Sure, if you don't like it, go to Lichess. No one is forcing you to stay with chess.com.

NONE00007

Chessflare.com : Manage your repertoire and visualize the .PGN files inside as a graph/node tree.

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