ChessPivot

Product changelog

Every line below is a change that actually shipped to production, dated on the day it went live. Nothing here is announced in advance: this log only describes what is already running.

It keeps only what a user can observe — a feature, a published piece of content, a visible fix — and leaves internal plumbing aside. A month with nothing visible would therefore not appear: the regularity you see is the regularity of the releases, not the regularity of a promise.

Latest release listed: September 1, 2026.

September 2026

  • Content

    Comparison of chess improvement services: a hub, the scoring method, and the first detailed service reviews, with every score backed by a public piece of evidence.

  • Improvement

    Adaptive difficulty: the rating actually served now feeds back into the setting, and a position taken from your own games is announced as such.

August 2026

  • New

    The free allowance rises from 20 to 40 analysed games, and over-the-board games no longer count against it.

  • New

    Over-the-board identities can be attached to your account and merged, and annotated Lichess studies are finally read on import.

  • Improvement

    On mobile, the board now takes the full width of the screen.

  • New

    Exercises: a one-move mode and new positions across every family.

  • Improvement

    Defensive alertness: only genuinely costly threats are kept; they are shown on the board, and they wait for the player.

  • Fix

    Glossary: an address whose capitalisation differs no longer returns a not-found page, it redirects to the canonical address.

  • Improvement

    Import: when Chess.com has not published your latest games yet, the message explains the archive delay instead of reporting a failure.

  • New

    Adaptive exercise difficulty: a difficulty centre per account and per family, targeting roughly 80% success, remembered from one session to the next.

  • New

    Exercises: larger banks, defence broken down by sub-type, a "good" or "doubtful" vote on every position, unlimited free access, and a review of your own misses.

  • Improvement

    Fightback run: the close button explicitly abandons the run, and a session left aside expires after thirty minutes.

  • New

    Global email opt-out: a stored registry, a confirmation page in French and English, and a mandatory check before any send.

  • Improvement

    Variation tree: the main line can be starred in one click.

  • New

    Periodic email review: the review picks up the goal you set, links are short and readable, and reactivation is set from My plan and My account.

  • Content

    Observatory of amateur mistakes: the autumn 2026 edition is online, with its charts, its close-ups and its datasets.

  • Content

    Model-game write-ups, internal linking across the content, and new blog posts.

  • New

    Club space: a member’s individual data is opened to the club’s teaching staff.

July 2026

  • New

    Chosen repertoire: a repertoire proposal, then line-by-line mastery tracking.

  • New

    Training rating visible to the coach and to the club director, along with tracking of fightbacks prepared and won.

  • New

    Motivation and leaderboards: rush leaderboards inside the club, and a fightback mode against a rising opponent, clocks included.

  • New

    Universal repertoire import: a PGN file of variations becomes a repertoire, with its annotations, arrows and comments.

  • New

    Endgames: step-by-step guidance that re-teaches the technique whenever it is missed.

  • Content

    Nine new opening pages, and French move notation fixed at the source across the whole corpus.

  • New

    Coach material library: documents and positions filed, shared with a student, and readable from their studies.

  • Content

    A product tour video on the home page, in French and in English.

  • New

    Coach and club space: a student file, comments at three scopes, homework organised into sessions, a student view, and a "My coach" page.

  • Improvement

    Leaving theory is now tolerant of transpositions, and a review mode is available on opening lines.

  • Improvement

    Opening lines re-sourced under the popularity rule: the reply you are shown is the one players actually play.

  • New

    The game count on an opening card opens the exact list of games behind it, for that card’s colour.

  • New

    Scoresheet scanner: a photo of your sheet becomes a PGN, with doubtful moves offered for correction before the analysis runs.

  • New

    Endgames: five exercise types, a faceted hub, and grading backed by endgame tablebases.

  • New

    Self-service account deletion, with nobody to ask, as required by the GDPR.

  • Improvement

    Analysing a pasted PGN is unified with analysing an imported game, and the error message names the offending move.

  • New

    The Learn page becomes a path: lessons, exercises and weaknesses assembled and ordered for your level.

  • New

    Blindfold visualisation and deep calculation exercises, plus a prophylaxis mode: "what is the opponent threatening?".

June 2026

  • New

    Repertoire deviations made visible: you are shown where and when you leave your own theory.

  • New

    Named mating patterns everywhere: in the analysis text, on the Statistics page, in the opponent file and in the glossary.

  • Improvement

    Mobile pass: touch targets of at least 44 pixels, reworked icons and tightened screens.

  • New

    A weekly training streak shown on My plan.

  • New

    Repertoire export and import as PGN, and model games attached to each variation.

  • New

    All analysis coaching becomes free, and the "Guess the move" mode opens to everyone.

  • New

    Draw-by-repetition prevention is flagged on the evaluation bar.

  • Content

    A "The improvement loop" page, explaining the analyse, name, train, check cycle.

  • New

    Mimesis: a sparring partner that imitates the style of the opponent you are preparing, with a strength setting.

Going further

To understand what these features measure and why, our method page explains the pedagogical choice behind each of them.