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[Jeff]

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1. A blue color is supposed to highlight mistakes. Though I touched every piece before moving it for the duration of the whole game to see what squares are highlighted, I’ve only seen a single blue square for a one piece for one move only. Everything else was either a red blunder or a green good move. I don’t think this is accurate at all, and such assistance wasn’t very helpful.

Depends on which level of assistance you are on as to what is blue. At the higher levels there should be significant blue. Any bugs in assistance will be fixed in 4.0

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2. A board recognizes a blunder when there isn’t any. A good example is: if I have a move that can lead to Mate in 8 or I have another move that won’t lead to a mate but will give me +10 advantage, the second move will be a red blunder (which it is not). This creates an unpleasant situation when closer to the end of the game, if a side with assistance has a theoretical mate on a board (even if it’s mate in 11), any move that doesn’t lead to a mate will be highlighted in red.

This is by design and not a bug. We feel the tool is better to force the user to discover the forced mating lines. The user can recognize significant material advantage and a winning advantage independently

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This question brings me to another point. On the one hand, I’ve purchased a board realizing this is a fresh product and not all features might be implemented. On the other hand, I haven’t expected local games not to be saved, games against bots not to be saved, assistance not functioning properly etc

Local games are saved and exportable (through the app) - it was a bug that has since been fixed.

Games against our Ai is saved, but for Chess.com bot games to save, we are waiting on Chess.com. I do not have a date on the release yet.

Assistance has some bugs that will be fixed in 4.0.0

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** 2.0.0 Additional chess.com time controls: what are they? Is that 10|5, or any other?

Everything you see under “more time formats” on Chess.com

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** 3.0.0 Lessons: are they basic lessons for beginners, or something for intermediate/advanced players as well? If it’s a “how to checkmate with 2 rooks”, that doesn’t sound very compelling.*

What is compelling to one user and another user are completely different things. We start with the rules and how the pieces move and go up to titled player level. However, the focus is on basics and most lessons will be there.

WGM Tatev Abrahamyan does the advanced lessons.

If we built a board just for you - we would sell one… not a great business. So lessons are going to be for maximum coverage of users, most of which are beginners and intermediate. However, there will be more advanced lessons, but less of them.

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** 3.0.0 OTB games saved/export: how will export work? Do we need an app for that or is it from the board?*

The ChessUp app already can export OTB games. This feature is putting OTB games into Chess.com accounts / still in discussions with Chess.com and 3.0.0 is a target to get this in, but we are not in full control.

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** 4.0.0 assistance improvements: what exactly is going to be improved? In what cases is that going to be usable - live assistance in games, playing vs built in bots, in board editor, other?*

Mainly the assistance improvements are making sure the assistance is 100% accurate all the time and never dropped out (currently there is a bug where it drops or confuses a position - it is to do with network stuff, not the actual logic).

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** 5.0.0 board editor play flow: what exactly does it mean, what features will be there?*

You can set up many game modes from the board editor - player vs player, player bot (various bots of various strengths)

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** 6.0.0 built in bots: will it increase a bot level from Max 12 as of today to more? Will they have a chat dialogue?*

This is an upgrade in strength but also our bots have dialogue, faces, and reactions to the game.