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Feature request - Toggle notation/analysis in study

I take lessons with a coach through lichess.org which works beautifully. It's truly a remarkable experience and achievement.

However, there's one missing feature that would be great in my opinion. Although you can setup a study to hide the analysis/game score, it would be great if it was possible, at any time, to hide the game score and annotations. In chessbase there is a little tab called "Training" that does exactly this. It basically replaces the notation with an empty panel that shows only the previous move. It could essentially be blank.

Essentially, me and my coach end up using the menu on the far right to achieve this, i.e. the thing that has the options to flip the board, enable/disable computer analysis and so on. If you toggle this, it mostly stays like that, but periodically it seems to flip back to the notation.

I know there is a way to setup the study/chapter to enable/disable these things, but I find myself alternating between wanting to see them or not depending on how I am working.

My suggestion would be to have a little button under the notation panel that would toggle the notation/annotations on and off. I am thinking it could be next to the play against computer and opening book icons. Often my coach is sharing his studies and so I don't even have control of the settings to turn them off so this would be a nice practical and simple solution. As it is we keep using that menu to achieve the same way, but it's not a feature that was intended to be used that way! It essentially becomes a guess the move type of thing in the simplest form.

I did a search for this feedback in the forums and did not find anything so here it is.

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