Feature request : an easy way to add games to a study • page 1/1 • Lichess Feedback • lichess.org

Hello!
When the fleeting desire of actually improving at chess hits me, I try to do what every coach says and analyze my past games - usually adding them in a lichess study.
It would be great it there were a way to add games to a lichess study in just a few clicks - for example a "add last x games played button", or an "add games" button that would make a list of recently played games appear, and just let you click on the ones you want to import.
It would take away a lot of friction and help actually put in some work on our chess... ;)

Hello! When the fleeting desire of actually improving at chess hits me, I try to do what every coach says and analyze my past games - usually adding them in a lichess study. It would be great it there were a way to add games to a lichess study in just a few clicks - for example a "add last x games played button", or an "add games" button that would make a list of recently played games appear, and just let you click on the ones you want to import. It would take away a lot of friction and help actually put in some work on our chess... ;)

mkubecek

#2

Why not... but compared to the time and effort I usually spend analyzing a game, I don't really see the time and effort needed to add the game into a study as a problem.

lookingforyuri

#3

I guess it's not if you do indeed spend a lot of time on each game, but it's enough friction that I very rarely do it.
Ideally, I would like to go over all my games, even my blitz.

I guess it's not if you do indeed spend a lot of time on each game, but it's enough friction that I very rarely do it. Ideally, I would like to go over all my games, even my blitz.

TotalNoob69

#4

Well, @lookingforyuri , you can install the LiChess Browser extension which allows you to check some of the games in a list (like in Search or Profile) and download all of their PGNs. Then all you have to do is create a new study or a new chapter in an existing study and use that PGN.

more here: https://siderite.dev/blog/lichess-tools---user-manual/#gameListOptions

Well, @lookingforyuri , you can install the LiChess Browser extension which allows you to check some of the games in a list (like in Search or Profile) and download all of their PGNs. Then all you have to do is create a new study or a new chapter in an existing study and use that PGN. more here: https://siderite.dev/blog/lichess-tools---user-manual/#gameListOptions

mkubecek

#5

That might be in fact the point. If you are not willing to spend enough time on the analysis and be interested in it enough to be bothered to do the few clicks why wasting server resources on it?

BtW, you don't really need to copy a game into a study to analyze it. You only need it if you want to annotate it, add comments and keep it after it would be discarded otherwise (which takes few years, IIRC).

That might be in fact the point. If you are not willing to spend enough time on the analysis and be interested in it enough to be bothered to do the few clicks why wasting server resources on it? BtW, you don't really need to copy a game into a study to analyze it. You only need it if you want to annotate it, add comments and keep it after it would be discarded otherwise (which takes few years, IIRC).

glbert

#6

i don't understand. if you go into any game you played > analysis board > hamburger menu, there's a button "study", that will let you add your game to an existing study or create a new study for it. that seems fairly straightforward already to me. especially if you do it right after the game, when you're usually on the analysis board already anyway.

TotalNoob69

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#7

The OP requested this feature for a number of past games at the same time.

lookingforyuri

#8

@glbert said in #6:

i don't understand. if you go into any game you played > analysis board > hamburger menu, there's a button "study", that will let you add your game to an existing study or create a new study for it. that seems fairly straightforward already to me. especially if you do it right after the game, when you're usually on the analysis board already anyway.

That's 6 clicks. Straightforward, yes, but enough friction that you don't really want to do it that much. Say I play a 6 game blitz game against a training partner and want to create a study of the games - 36 clicks and I have to be careful not to pick the same game twice..

@glbert said in #6: > i don't understand. if you go into any game you played > analysis board > hamburger menu, there's a button "study", that will let you add your game to an existing study or create a new study for it. that seems fairly straightforward already to me. especially if you do it right after the game, when you're usually on the analysis board already anyway. That's 6 clicks. Straightforward, yes, but enough friction that you don't really want to do it that much. Say I play a 6 game blitz game against a training partner and want to create a study of the games - 36 clicks and I have to be careful not to pick the same game twice..

glbert

#9

right. i guess that's easy to me because i go to the analysis board after every game automatically anyway. so adding a game to a study is only one additional step.
but i can see how it would feel too complicated if you play heaps of games without going to analysis.

right. i guess that's easy to me because i go to the analysis board after every game automatically anyway. so adding a game to a study is only one additional step. but i can see how it would feel too complicated if you play heaps of games without going to analysis.