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Hmm. Never even noticed the notes function.

Isn't your purpose in studying chess to play other people? :) Game experience can also be valuable training, even more so if you take time to really analyze your games afterward, especially the longer…

6. e4 is a double attack, hitting both queen and bishop, winning the bishop on f5. Edited to add: As I understand it, the distinction between a mistake and a blunder is strictly the computer evaluatio…

As my rating indicates, I'm no expert here, but I'm wondering if maybe developing the dark square bishop and castling earlier before you reach the critical position would help. I don't know much about…

As far as I know, what is defined as an inaccuracy in the computer analysis is strictly related to how Stockfish evaluates the position relative to the best available move, so it’s literally just base…

I should add, in case it’s helpful, that this was not a problem in previous versions. On my Kindle, I sideload the app, and I am a version or two out of date there. That version behaves as expected.

A few weeks ago I noticed that after updating the Android app, for OTB games, I can’t get it to play any variants. You can select them, but it just gives me a standard game. I am seeing this across tw…

@tpr Thanks again for your help. I appreciate it.

If you type a question mark, it calls up some or all of the keyboard shortcuts available. (This works on a lot of sites, and is basically sort of a convention worth trying.) Hope that helps.

@tpr Thanks! Regarding the Bc4 move I think maybe I was unclear. The idea would have been to do this earlier, like move 5 or 6, with the idea of making it harder for my opponent to castle. Does that m…