I know this is a bit fancy -- but what about some way to play blindfold chess? Like just typing your moves in notation (with no board displayed) and something like little chess partner sends back a move, also just in notation? It would probably be too hard to prevent cheating in play that isn't against a computer... but maybe unrated games... anyway, I think it would be cool, especially 'cause I can't seem to find any thing like it, at least not on the internet.
Also, it might be useful for chess.com to have an endgame tablebase. I know there are plenty of them online, but there have been a lot of forum questions that could easily have been answered if more people just knew they existed. And it could be a cool way to catch cheaters (well, stupid cheaters) if anyone enters a position that appears in one of their current games.
This is a long shot, but it would be very cool if the puzzle composition tool had an engine play the opponent's moves by default instead of the composer entering them (with the ability to override, of course) -- I think we'd see a lot less flawed puzzles posted. You could possibly leverage the existing "Computer Workout" functionality for this (it could also function as a "custom" workout where the user tries out positions of his own composition whether for a puzzle or not)
Make it so premium members can once again search all chess.com members games in Opening Explorer (or at least all games with an average rating of 2000 or higher)!
That would be really appreciated
Any premium membership, at any level, a paid membership, should have the privilege to see the entire record of all members when it comes to stats of other members.
see other peoples Tactics Trainer stat pages.
Without going through all the post forgive if this has been mentioned before or if it falls under chess variants. Fischer Chess, both for regular games and tournaments.....
Also the ability to remove players in tournaments if they violate the rules set forth for the tournament or if unsportmanlike to other players...
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if our requests get made do we get credit/aknowledged for them... I wanna see what good ideas ppl have had out there in our community.
lol I guess i just made a request!
Maybe you could have more than 1 class of 'member' in groups, so that the super-admin could say that he would promote people if they participated in lots of Team Matches and Vote Chess, and was involved in the forums of that group a lot, he would promote them so that they have more rights, without him having to give them the full responsibility of 'admin'.
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It would be great if we could represent our nationalities. Currently I live in UK, but I'm citizen of Lithuania. However, I want to retain my UK address in my account, as finding local chess players and clubs will definetely be easier this way. I reckon the List of Countries & Members would see some interesting changes, if it was based on nationality instead of living address.
Another annoying thing... I've just invited a friend of mine to join Chess.com over email address. He did register, but I couldn't see him in my friends list, until I asked his Chess.com username to invite him again. I think the persons I invite should get into my friend list automatically. If they join Chess.com, of course.
Premove in online chess!
In addition to conditional moves, sometimes you know which move you are going to play regardless of what your opponent answers, so it would quite useful
Spring and year long clean up, a new slate =0, no more unnessary and duplication of forums on unread posts, find a way, please to skip or uncheck posts that I do not want to read and to eliminate all of the 10 responses to any given post.
The antiquated, archaic, rudimentary and cave man application is now passed, remember millenium 2000?, a new way of life, a new way of doing things, we all need a little help from our friends, are you a friend? Can you help me.
This topic is simply haunting me and aggravating as I cannot remove the unread posts without the painful, painskating, futile exercise to go thru evey post by opening them to get rid of them.
Most people do not care as they do not read them. Do a survey and do ask what I am asking about.
When was the last time that such a survey was conducted? and I am not referring to the Hudson Bay wishlist catalog that you are using as a mean to get suggestions.
Let`s try to get the house in order and be pro-active.
I could not care less if my request is less than 1% of the population here on chess.com, by population I mean statistically speaking.
And what if by providing the feature to remove, eradicate, skip, uncheck, bypass or whatever term you wnat to use to not read an unwanted post. Possibly more people are willing and will be interested in reading the posts and want to participate.
Just a suggestion.
Stretching unread pages of posts with endless pages like 8 or 12 keep creeping up on me everyday, with naturally duplication of the same forum and with a new twist a different poster, still the same forum!! Yes?!
To all this is my new pet peeve since months now, I guess I will have to adapt or simply stop reading, like many members do as I have read it in the forums, even Erik`s post will be missed and mine as well, though one can omit from the priority list.
When is status quo lifted and are we looking at :conctator factum or prodico or cesso, in the near future?
Can we view topics are friends are tracking to find some interesting topics?
Here's my wishlist:
I agree, that's lame!
Holy shoot, I was just going to say the exact same thing! Though tournaments where every player had the exact same (random) position (generated at the very start of the tournament) would be super awesome also.
I support shuffle-chess options even if only for tournaments &/or unrated games at first.
When showing a players rating from a game they should show it BEFORE the change from the result of the game that was played. If I am a 1500 player and I beat a 1500 player--those are the ratings that should show in my history not 1516 beats 1484
But if they went from 1516 to 1484 as a result of the game you just played with them then that's reflective of their level of play during the game.
BUT the rating of the game should show it at the time it was played --Not AFTER. The next game should show the rating of 1516 (and 1484)--no other chess site shows the players ratings after the result. So if two 1500 players play each other twice the ratings in the results should look like this
Game 1 1500-1500
Game 2 1516-1484
I'm sorry, I agree with what your saying ("...the rating of the game should show it at the time it was played..."), but I disagree with your interpretation of what that means. The resulting ratings are a product of the game you played, so how can they not be considered to be reflective of the levels of play "at the time it was played"?