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What's New

New features and meaningful improvements for your training with ChessRiddle.

August 5, 2026

You now receive an email if a payment fails or shortly before a free subscription period ends.
Strategy puzzles now reach a higher difficulty, so the hardest settings stay demanding even for strong players.
When the difficulty you picked is not in stock, the app now tells you instead of quietly serving easier puzzles.

Affiliate partners can now track link clicks, code redemptions, subscriptions, commissions and payouts in their own dashboard.

New challenge results now appear directly in your challenge list, and the notification clears once you have seen them.

New Conversion and Resistance puzzles: find the strongest move in a clearly better or clearly worse position — one decision per puzzle. They count toward your Strategy rating, the former Positional rating, which still covers positional puzzles too.

Search openings and variations in one consistent catalog in your language, then train them directly.
Tactical motifs now appear in your language across selectors, statistics, collections and shared sessions; the selector briefly explains each motif.

Every collection now opens with its own puzzle mix, and you can shuffle the catalog for a fresh selection.

Registration now completes reliably after email confirmation without showing an error page after a successful confirmation.

Players in India can now subscribe for ₹700 per month or ₹7,000 per year and pay with UPI.
Evaluation puzzles now resume correctly in mistake training.
Header navigation now stays accessible without crowding smaller screens.
Challenge friends to the same hidden puzzles: solve at your own pace while your opponent’s result for each puzzle stays hidden until you attempt it yourself; accuracy wins, and if accuracy is tied, speed points count only on puzzles both solved correctly, with controls for the mixed-position balance, piece count, and opening depth.
With Gold, build custom training plans from warm-up, main and cool-down puzzles, set difficulty and time budgets, and start, duplicate and share your plans.
Training history can now be filtered by plan, and plan cards show sessions, last use and average accuracy.
With Gold trainer tools, build reusable ordered puzzle collections, find and analyze puzzles with board previews and filters, and configure every puzzle individually.
Trainers can guide training partners through live sessions with a synchronized board, task list and variation tree, then analyze solved positions together with Stockfish.
Evaluation feedback now shows the accepted range, the actual engine score and the engine verification details after submission.
Riddle Streak now marks the exact wrong move and shows the correct alternative when a streak ends.

Puzzle and analysis boards are more reliable on touch devices, with fewer conflicts between dragging, tapping and previews.
In evaluation mode, you can now adjust engine settings directly in the settings dialog.
Stats, history and training pages now have clearer labels and steadier loading states.
After checkout, your active subscription appears in the app more quickly.
Sign-in redirects, the mobile header and dark-mode contrast have been improved.

The Android app is now available on Google Play. The iOS app is coming soon.
On iPhone and iPad, the controls below the board no longer overlap the board on smaller screens.

When you sign up, you can now optionally enter your approximate level so puzzles start at a fitting difficulty.

New accounts automatically get the free Gold trial right after confirming their email.
Fixed rare errors that could occur on very sharp, complex positions.