Product concepts
Game review queue
Definition
A game review queue is the screen in ChessCore where a batch's uploaded games sit after the Stockfish pre-scan, each one flagged with its two or three biggest eval swings, waiting for the coach to open it during a student's 15-minute review slot. The queue holds unreviewed games, not sent messages, and clears as each slot is worked through.
In practice
A game review queue turns up wherever an academy batches its weekly reviews: a coach opens it before an evening of 15-minute slots to see which of a batch's games are pre-scanned and ready, and closes each entry once that student's slot is done. It sits next to, but is distinct from, the approval queue: an approval queue holds AI-drafted parent messages waiting on a coach's sign-off, while a game review queue holds engine-scanned games waiting on a coach's teaching decision. The current and post-game ratings a coach might glance at while a game sits in the queue come from rating sync rather than from the queue itself. Coaches comparing academy software run into the term when checking whether a platform pre-scans games before a session or leaves the engine pass for live, and it comes up again when planning coach load across a batch evening, since a queue that never empties for one coach is a scheduling signal, not a review problem. For the method that clears the queue fifteen minutes at a time, see the linked guide.