Hey-

New member and I love the site.  I'm probably going to upgrade to silver in the next month or so.  In looking at the explanation of the upgraded membership benefits, it seems as though some screenshots (particularly of the themes and other visual features) would be helpful and might move more people to upgrade their accounts.

Alternately -- one forum I'm on every now and then unlocks some of the paid features for the general membership once a quarter to give the free members a taste of what the site could be.  i think it was after one of these weekends that I upgraded my account (ARS).  Not sure if this is something the Chess.com CMS can easily accomodate.

Two feature requests-

1.  How about collapsing some of the forums or organizing the forums into sub-forums>  I'll let more informed minds than mine figure out the new categories but note that it can sometimes be hard to find a given forum.

2.  How about having paid members receive the daily puzzel by email (java-enabled?) if they so choose -- or, that the very least, have an alert sent to their email accnt.

Love the site and, again, I will be upgrading some time in May (taxes).

Thanks for your feedback and suggestions! We appreciate it.

Do take note of the fact that there are no longer Silver memberships. For more information on the memberships available at Chess.com please take a look at http://www.chess.com/membership.html

Thanks.  Should have said platinum membership.  Seems to be the sweet spot for me.