A fresh look for your pieces: • New Soft piece set, now the default on every board. • Prefer the old look? Classic is still there in Settings.

Openings, taught like our videos: • Many move-by-move opening notes now come from our Openings Explained video lessons. • The opening builder's Vienna, King's Indian and Caro-Kann Two Knights choices now build exactly those openings. • New Classic piece set, and Bold in place of Carved wood. • The coach goes quiet when you switch away from the app. • Opening builder fixes, no duplicate lines, plus many more fixes.

Endgames, coached move by move: • The queen and rook mates, the Lucena and the Philidor now teach the whole method, step by step. • New coaching for holding the drawn king-and-pawn ending. • The coach explains what a mistake cost, and what the better move would have won. • Puzzle explanations say why a mate is mate and what the solution won. • A clearer eval in Game Review, a smoother coach voice, plus many fixes.

Sharper coaching, fewer false alarms: • Theory moves are credited as book moves again, with the opening's summary when you complete a named line. • Coach and Game Review no longer call a doomed piece a blunder, and tactic explanations only promise captures that are legal. • Practice forgives a piece dropped one square short — a slip no longer counts against your repetition schedule. • The coach's voice says exactly what the screen shows for forced mates. • Faster game review, plus many fixes.

Learn chess from zero, and open like you mean it: • Opening principles — short coached drills on the three jobs of every opening, now leading the Openings tab. • New to chess? An interactive tutorial teaches the rules on the real board, ending with your first coached game. • Learning puzzles — a beginner mode with every solution explained out loud. • Endgame drills are now coached, with spoken guidance and take-backs. • Plus practice hints and many fixes.

Share your games: • Share any finished game from the game-over screen or the game review. • The link replays the whole game in a browser — whoever you send it to can step through it without installing anything. • A sharper board — redesigned pawns and a new bishop shape that's easy to tell apart at a glance. • Clearer coaching and game review, with better wording on openings, captures and tactics.

Meet your chess coach! • Coach mode: relaxed games with feedback on every move, in plain words, spoken out loud. Made a mistake? Take it back and try again. • Game review now explains every move in plain English — and can replay your game with narration. • Rated puzzles: an adaptive puzzle rating that serves puzzles at your level. • A refreshed look across the app, plus many fixes.