I'd like the "move" tab open by default with the "chat" tab optional rather than the reverse situation we have now.  Giving the chat tab some kind of highlight indicating a new message would be nice too.  That way we could check it out only when there was something new to see and more importantly we wouldn't have to click on the "move" tab before being able to choose the Analysis Board or Game Explorer.  The extra mouse click is annoying enough to disable the chat window completely just to eliminate the extra step but why is the interface designed to require the extra mouse click?

Isn't it obviously better to have the most important information appear first?  Does the majority really think the chat window is more important to their chess than the Analysis Board & Game Explorer?

p.s. if there a way to customize personal settings to make the "move" tab open by default please tell me and forget the above.  if not, please consider improving the efficiency of our interface.  thanks.

thanks for your suggestion!

is it actually called the "messages" tab ?  sorry, they were all disabled in my games so I couldn't check.  I hope everyone knows what I meant and seriously considers this change.