Chessolve 6.0.0 — Complete Redesign Changelog
This changelog consolidates all 355 commits, covering development from July 7 to August 8, 2026.
In total: 181 files changed, with 35,828 additions and 5,911 deletions.
🎨 Fully redesigned interface
Rebuilt the entire extension interface from the ground up.
Redesigned authentication, email verification, OTP, Home, Options, Profile, subscription, payment, transaction, and minimized views.
Introduced a consistent panel shell and reusable UI components.
Added smooth transitions between screens.
Added animated bottom navigation and minimized-panel transitions.
Added a universal drag rail and improved panel dragging.
Improved both light and dark themes.
Added responsive layouts for smaller screens and variable content.
Added new extension and manifest icons.
Removed obsolete logos and payment assets.
Improved disabled, hover, loading, and selected states.
Added reduced-motion support.
♟ Move review and classifications
Added move classifications directly on the Chess.com and Lichess boards.
Added Best, Excellent, Good, Great, Brilliant, Inaccuracy, Mistake, Miss, and Blunder assets.
Added animated classification introductions.
Added special glyph-only animations for Great and Brilliant moves.
Matched Chess.com-style pill-to-icon transitions.
Anchored classifications to the destination square.
Added smooth downward fade-out animations.
Improved post-game move review.
Added support for reviewing selected moves while replaying a completed game.
Fixed move classifications during live move-list replay.
Rebuilt Chess.com positions from SAN history for reliable reviews.
Prevented stale evaluations and classifications from appearing.
Cleared reviews whenever the position or game generation becomes invalid.
Hardened retry, takeback, reload, and history lifecycles.
Added site rating to move-analysis requests.
Removed redundant move-review labels from the best-move card.
🤖 Engine improvements
Added support for selecting the Lc0 engine.
Added entitlement-based engine availability.
Sent the selected engine with analysis requests.
Added isolated extension-side engine caching.
Rejected malformed, contradictory, and stale cached engine results.
Prevented outdated terminal engine responses from affecting the board.
Preserved the displayed bot Elo when changing

Chessolve 6.0.0 is more than a visual refresh. It is a complete interface rebuild with better analysis controls, engine selection, on-board move classifications, improved post-game review, stronger Chess.com and Lichess reliability, faster performance, accessible markup, localized subscriptions, and substantially expanded test coverage.

CHESSOLVE v5.2.0

What’s New

• Payment checkout now opens in the current tab instead of creating a new browser tab.
• Improved subscription/payment flow behavior after checkout URL is received from the server.
• Refined transaction detail layout for better readability and cleaner long-text handling.
• Improved premium/footer layout spacing in the extension panel.

Privacy & Build Updates

• Production builds now only request access to the CHESSOLVE API domain.
• Localhost API permissions are now limited to development builds only.

Cleanup

• Removed unused payment provider logo assets.
• Removed an outdated internal payment/transactions design spec.

Fixes

• Fixed checkout navigation so users stay in the same tab when proceeding to payment.

Chessolve v5.1.0 is out

What changed:

• Removed cell glow from piece, added target cell border instead of glow.
• Improved minimized mode styling so the compact panel feels cleaner and more stable.
• Fixed the “newer version available” alert showing over the minimized panel. It now appears only in full mode.
• Improved best-move card animations, including smoother height changes and better reveal behavior.
• Polished move review and mate alert display states.
• Added more internal tests around auth, panel rendering, analysis flow, and UI state to reduce regressions.