Chess.com is happy to announce our new improve to the transfer checklist function. The brand new transfer checklist is now cleaner and clearer, making it simpler so that you can comply with variations and annotations or to investigate your personal video games. It additionally resembles the transfer checklist you see whereas enjoying video games, providing you with a extra constant expertise throughout your entire web site.

The outdated transfer checklist used to current strikes from left to proper and facet by facet, as is frequent in chess books. Whereas this can be a nice technique to save lots of area and make books cheaper, it is not probably the most intuitive or pleasing technique to show chess strikes and variations:

The brand new transfer checklist reveals just one pair of chess strikes per line, displaying all of the strikes of the principle line neatly on two columns. This variation alone improves the studying expertise considerably.

Nonetheless, you will discover probably the most vital distinction when studying a number of variations. That is very true when there are additionally annotations inside the totally different variations! The outdated transfer checklist displayed every thing collectively, creating an overcrowded data cluster that was laborious to digest.

The brand new transfer checklist, nevertheless, organizes all of the variations in a construction that resembles a written paragraph. Every new variation begins by itself “paragraph,” with variations inside a variation going to a different “paragraph.” You may additionally discover that strains to the left of the strikes additional enable you to determine what belongs to every variation.

The brand new transfer checklist additionally brings a “pop-over” variation menu that lets you choose which variation you’d wish to see utilizing nothing however your keyboard keys. As you are urgent the precise arrow key to undergo strikes, the pop-over will present up when you get to some extent the place you possibly can select from a couple of variation. Utilizing your up and down arrow keys, you simply want to pick out the variation you’d wish to see subsequent after which press the precise arrow key once more to maintain going. 

We hope you get pleasure from utilizing the brand new transfer checklist when analyzing a recreation or reviewing annotated video games. Please tell us your ideas within the remark part under.