Chess.com Feature Request and Wishlist #4

Thank you everyone for your suggestions up to this point! Also, thank you to those members who contributed to creating and maintaining this list (specifically paul211 and artfizz)!

• Annotate games while in progress
• Game management tools (download all PGNs, add offline games, tag, etc)
• Improve conditional moves (add in draw, wildcard, ajax, opening book, etc)
• Analysis board ->  conditional moves
• Improve "play against the computer"
  
• A "play from this position vs. computer" feature to practice situations
• Coaching mode (with takebacks)
• Sort games list
• Ability to choose which game tab to start with
• Improved analysis board
• Timestamp messages/moves in echess
• Open PGN editor & site-wide analysis board
  
• Ability to insert games into non-chess.com blogs (like blogger, etc)
• Mobile/iphone support
• Add images to "your move" email
• Allow printable boards
• Add all opponents to MAP
• Custom pieces/board colors
• Ladder/pyramid play
• More noticable CHANGE THEME button
• Forum posts moderated by users (like digg.com)
• User-generated polls (and embeddable in forums)
• Forum - last post i haven't read
• Game Explorer - search for a position
• Show opening name in games
• Filter/tag games in Game Archive
• Say how game started in game chat
• Groups forum in main forum to discuss groups, etc
• Chess factoid of the day
• Show captured piece and move on game board in text (including CHECK!)
• Add My Vote Chess Games to control panel
• Vote Chess all comments available to anyone post-game
• Rollover actions on a player name (rating, current games, etc)
• Add better game SEEk parameters (avg. time/move, min # games, etc)
• Allow for creating your own starting position for games
• Wall-to-wall notes (like facebook)
• Show what place I finished in "Completed Tournaments"
• Allow to post birthdate, or year, but not both
• better browser integration (opera, etc)
• Chess Variants
• Better Chess Videos section
• Main site chat (groups? forum)
• QA with top player article
• Get games annotated by top players
• Custom FUN trophies
• Add hoverboard to game alerts
• Edit chat window
• Fix material balance in Analysis board
• Add more stats (longest game, shortest, compare ratings, etc)
• Un-timed Chess Mentor
• Un-timed rated Tactics Trainer
• Tactics Trainer updates (add themes, etc)
• Huge Chess.com records/stats page (longest game, games in progress, etc)
• Live Chess
  - performance fixes
  - joint analysis board
  - coaching
  - tournaments
  - private chat
  - variants
  - live events
  - watch random game when you login (top rated game?)
  - takeback move

I feel so spoiled.

this is just a list :) lots of things on there will get done and some won't. i have to prioritize by impact to maximum number of users and by resource hours.

Impressive list. 

Here's another minor possibility:   I notice a few people are using my "Fly a Kite" theme.  I hadn't expected anybody else to use it (the photographs are of two of my sons flying hang gliders) and am pleased somebody else liked it. 

Is it possible to add a feature so that if we click on a theme we can see who else is using it?

I have been watching the Wishlist ever since its inception long ago, and it's nice to know that Erik and the great members of the site have kept a close eye on it and haven't lost focus on the things that the members want, regardless of if/when it can be done. How cool is it the WE know what the FOUNDER of this site KNOWS what WE want and is trying his best to provide it? It would be so easy for Erik to separate our wishes from his development and occasionally toss us a bone (and keep us in the dark), but the very fact that he has his ear to the ground and is constantly listening and communicating with us is service that you will not find at any other chess site.  Period.

Completely agree with knightnothorse. Like the Chess.com records idea. Sounds good to me.

One thing I would like to suggest is to add analysis to the game of the day matches so that users can learn more from them.

Great site Erik and staff. Thank You.

I will love coaching mode.  That may very well be the best thing on that list.  Thanks Erik and the staff!  They deserve some sleep! :)

Could there also be a "play from this position" option against other Chess.com members? It could work if they want to work on certain endgames, or do chess excersizes that are impossible to reach in the course of a game?

How about swiss pairing for tournaments?

Are we able to access our @chess.com emails using external applications such as outlook express, or thunderbird?  (Not just those apps in particular, was giving examples.  I'd love to now if it can be used at all outside of chess.com)

Vote chess : display (on vote chess main page) if it is white or black to play.

That was a long list!

It would be nice to see "best win" stats, also in blitz (live).

Moon..:)!

Is there a way to include something like "Positional play Trainer"?

Does "chess variants" include Capablanca Chess?

positional play trainer = Chess Mentor! :)

variants... an enormous scary project :)

photoray-- see here for email setup--

http://support.chess.com/index.php?_m=knowledgebase&_a=viewarticle&kbarticleid=181&nav=0

ah a nice long Bucket list

 I agree. I was just reading on wikipedia that there are over 2000 variants! I suppose the easiest ones to tackle first would be the ones where only the initial position is different (i.e. Chess 960) but where the rules remain the same. I figure the last one (if ever!!) would be something where there is a different shape of board, different rules for captures (i.e. pieces transforming, etc...) because that would be a mountain of programming. Chess 960 would be rad though...

Is this what you mean by scary?

 What about group matches? ie: 1 seed plays 1seed, 5th seed plays other 5th seed

Charles

Perhaps I need to upgrade my membership for this, but I would like it if the Game Explorer had more games in it that included blunders or simply poor moves in the early game, and how to identify and exploit them.  The Master level games are fantastic, but tend not to include very many actually bad moves.