Feature & Content Suggestions
Feel free to upvote any suggestion that resonates with you, or create a new one yourself.
Your suggestions can be about new features, Lectures, or Courses that you would like to see on Chessly.
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Make Dutch defence lecture
The ideas and planning after the opening like the level up D4 dynamite or Caro Kann lectures.
Lecture suggestions
54
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Stalemate Traps
How to create them in an otherwise loosing (end)game and how to avoid them when winning
Lecture suggestions
106
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Add Bookmarks
Could you add person bookmarks so it's easier to go back to section and place in the video that you want to review?
Feature suggestions
92
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Poisoned Pawn Explanation
It would me nice to have an explanation or some kind of idea as to why a pawn is poisoned.
Feature suggestions
125
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Pawn structures
A course about how to read pawn structures, how pawn structures modify the way we play, how to choose the best pawn breaks, etc…
Lecture suggestions
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Fundamental checkmate patterns
Lecture suggestions
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identifying and using forks
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Identifying and using pins
Lecture suggestions
114
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How to build an opening repertoire
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How to handle your emotions before, during, and after a game
Lecture suggestions
120
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How to manage your time
Lecture suggestions
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How to read SAN
Lecture suggestions
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Bookmark in chapters
if there was a star or other symbol beside each video, drill etc, it would be much easier to remember the drill you particularly struggled with and come back to later ...
Feature suggestions
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Priority Moves
Some moves are much more common than others. It would be nice if those moves would be marked to save time while studying.
When learning a course, someone could start ...
Feature suggestions
39
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A guide to Bishop and Knight Checkmate
I am an 1800 elo player right now but still do not know how to do this with efficiency
Lecture suggestions
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Tactics
Would be great to have a course on all the different sorts of tactics with theory and then drills.
Lecture suggestions
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The English
Course suggestions
105
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How to Calculate Better.
where you learn how to calculate and view calculation of model games.
Lecture suggestions
237
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King's Indian Setup
There aren't a lot of videos about it and would be good if you know it
Course suggestions
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176
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Queen's Gambit from White perspective
I picked up the London from the London course and it has served me well, but when I need to switch it up and play Queen's Gambit style I can feel lost at times. ...
Course suggestions
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How to play from equal positions
Hi. I have just reached rating of 1400 and I'm getting a lot more equal position games where all my pieces are already developed, and I couldn't find any attacks on ...
Lecture suggestions
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Video autoplay
This feature could include two things : autoplay the video when landing in the lesson page and automatically jump to the next lesson (after a little countdown) when ...
Feature suggestions
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Progress bar in lessons
It can be interesting to have kind of a progress bar to know when the lesson after each left arrow key press. Here's a paint example ^-^
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84
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Allow For User-Made Drills
The drills cover most, but not all of the possible positions one could encounter in a given opening. If we have experienced a deviation not covered in the currently ...
Feature suggestions
46
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A guide to Knight VS Bishop
A guide on how to use the Knight and Bishop. Also having a section on Good Knight VS Bad Bishop and Good Bishop VS Bad Knight not only in the endgame as featured in ...
Lecture suggestions
148
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Scotch Game
For some reason there doesn't seem to be too much info on the Scotch Game on the internet. I'd love to see an in depth course on it, the main line and many variations
Course suggestions
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42
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include queen check with f4 move on bc5.
On the video 4 of chapter 1 of the e4 course you go over some bishop moves. On one of them you suggest f4 which opens up the king for checks with qh5. Can you ...
Course suggestions
99
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Add a Bf5 chapter to the advance caro course
I know levy suggests c5, but it still would be interesting to have a secondary weapon.
Course suggestions
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Affiliate program
Add affiliate program so individuals can get commission for referring users
Feature suggestions
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Pgn files
Giving access to downloadable pgn files like on previously on the gotham chess website would be really useful.It would facilitate the use of the course in conjunction ...
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Integrating "Model Games" within individual chapters and having more of them
Incorporating (even more) model games within the chapters of the respective openings, offers several advantages:
– a more contextual learning experience
– ...
Course suggestions
120
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Modern against London
I play G6 against the Queen's pawn so many players go for the London System, even at 1400 rapid. The course on the Modern provides a good and straight-forward ...
Course suggestions
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how to play to the London opening E4 against C5 response
Course suggestions
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Add key points section as a sidebar to video lessons
It would be great to have a cliffs notes version of the video that uses minimal notation--more conceptual things that I can remember like:
- Get the bishop out of ...
Feature suggestions
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Link to section of Video and Study that covers the drill I'm working on
Hi,
I would like the ability on each drill to quickly jump to the point in the video or the study that covers the drill that I'm working on so that when I don't ...
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Board - Convenience
On lichess and chess.com, you can execute castling by smoothly dragging the king onto the rook, whereas on chessly, this feature is not available.
Additionally, ...
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Alternative drill moves
If you have a drill, where there are two (or more) moves playable - for example in the Advance Caro 3...Bf5 - it would be nice to add something that says - this is ...
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New Game: Should I save the pawn?
This game is like a cousin of poisoned pawn. In it, you have a pawn that is under fire, and you must decide whether your best move is to defend the pawn or not (maybe ...
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Behaviour of the "Continue" button
When I press the "continue" button on a course, the platform directs me to the first uncompleted item (exercise, studio, or video). it would be great if an option or ...
Feature suggestions
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Resetting Course Progress
It seems like you guys either have removed the "reset progress"-funtion in courses. That tool is quite handy if you revisit the course after a while and want to study ...
Feature suggestions
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Save progress for Drill Shuffle
During a Drill Shuffle run, all progress is wiped when the internet connection is lost or the page is refreshed. The possibility to retain the progress would be ...
Feature suggestions
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Link chess.com account to track progress
I think linking the chess.com account and seeing progress on the site would be a cool feature. You'd be able to see how much elo you've gained since taking a course ...
Feature suggestions
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Drill all completed lessons across different courses
Be able to drill all the completed lessons within your Chessly courses.
Feature suggestions
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How to anlayze with chess engine
On your Gotham Chess shows, you often analyze (after or during the game) by checking Stockfish for the "best" move. You also talk about analyzing your games by ...
Lecture suggestions
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Allow an option of more strikes in shuffle modes
In a chapter of 200+ drills or 400+ quizzes, being able to choose 5 strikes, 10 strikes, or even 20 strikes without giving up the current shuffle would be great.
Feature suggestions
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Retain Hints after losing 3 lifes in Survival Drills
Hi,
When doing survival drills on the courses if you mess up and you still have lifes left you will get a hint telling you what the move you should have played is, ...
Feature suggestions
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Display Material and Piece Advantage
I would like to see the material and piece advantage during studies, drills, and quizzes. It would be a nice quality of life improvement.
For example, if white is ...
Feature suggestions
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Premoves
It'd be nice to have premoves in courses because it can get quite annoying to have to make every move individually, especially in the opening courses when you know ...
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