I was playing someone in live chess & he couldn't understand me because he only spoke Spanish. I think a great idea if possible would be to add a translator button to the game chat window, where each person could select the language they would like the chat translated to. Is that possible? This is a world wide site.

me parece muy bien dani, !!!!! good luck and i think you 're right !!!

Good idea. You should get a cut of the action.....

Open a second window ===> google translator. 

Say, "Bueno Gamo" and move on. 

If I can't understand someone in the chat room because they are speaking a different language and I can figure out what they are speaking I use the website http://www.freetranslation.com/....I just simply copy (control+c) and paste (control+v) their sentence in the translation box and use the correct translation ie. spanish to english. If I am going to respond I just simply type a sentence into the translation box, making sure I switch it to english to spanish then I copy and paste my translated sentence to the chat.  It takes a minute to switch from window to window, copying and pasting, but I think it comes in handy in certain situations.  I hope this helps you or anyone else that might be interested in communicating with others that you do not understand.  Also, if you do not like that website for translating, just google another translating website, there are a few more out there.

Good idea!

ud be saying French was the world's best if history played out eveer-so slightly differently :)

i mean, even though French isnt the most influential country in Europe today, they STILL have French in all passports!

oh right, business.. thoughcha said best

well, if its strictly business.. then, aight

srs? my passport has french in it, and im Australian!

na, i didnt mean WWII lol, like, back in the 19th C when France was involved in all these International matters

"ud be saying French was the world's best if history played out eveer-so slightly differently :)"

What? like if the British hadn't built the largest empire the World has ever seen, or been successful in colonizing most of the New World?

Yes, that is " eveer-so slightly differently".

p.s. WuGambino, you're a history major, right?

na electrical, but i took history in yr 12

france was a, if not the, leading power in europe from the 1500's after it recouped from the 100 years war until some point early in the 19thC, after which Great Britain surpassed it, just going of what i was taught bro

i no this post was originally about a translator, (sorry bout that Surfergirl) but itd be nice to see a history buff explain it to me, i love european history :)

thanks for the sarcasm mate

i feel bad for Prussia.. srsly, its virtually non-existent today, absorbed mostly into Germany, and the rest into surrounding countries.

i'm studying German now.....translating chat into German would help me....

I am getting seriously freaked out with this thread. I have a major sense of de-ja-vu. I could've sworn this post was around WAY before today.

Interesting, I've had the same experience, a week or so ago, with this same thread. (Or so I believe...) Please, please, someone tell me it's a bug, because otherwise I'm terrified that I'm losing my mind...

There are already free tools out there that do this for you -- I think the chess.com development staff's time would be better spend focusing on funcitonality that is core to the site, especially when there are already solutions to the problem out there.

Try these:

http://translate.reference.com/
http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
http://www.translate.google.com/

I agree, that would be a great addition to the site, I know from experience that it can be very difficult to try to learn another language. There are so many different dialects that it makes it very difficult to learn another language, and I think that it is very insensitive and rude to ask that everyone else learn to speak english. If you live in the US, then yes, by all means learn the language that we speak, but if you live in another country, why should you. A translator button on the site would be phenominal!!!!!!

 I agree, belt and braces before bells and whistles.