Time-Stamped moves

  I think its a small request, but perhaps not.

Simply put, I would like to see the moves time-stamped when I replay my Live games from the recent games or my games archive.

 I review my games quite often and besides knowing how long each move took to be made, knowing this information would also help shed light on how much time I took for certain kinds of moves.

 This information would be invaluable for those trying to improve their time management skills and trying to speed up their thinking process.

I'm not quite sure what this would require, but I believe it'd be yet another terrific resource available from an already stunning chess website.Wink

I like this idea.  I've had similar thoughts when playing through other peoples games (Fisher/Spassky, Anand/Topalov, etc).  It would be nice to see how long they took on each move, what kind of time pressure they were under, etc.

This has been mooted since Wishlist 2 - so it must be getting closer?

 Are you being facetious??

 But no... I mean, thanks for pointing me these forum posts.

As an aside, its beyond me how a feedback discussion got put onto the community board, but thats beside the point.

 @Baldr                                                                                                            It would be interesting to see the time used by players in Historic games, fischer v. spassky for example, but difficult or impossible, as I don't know how much of that info is sitting around in pgn files or in a database somewhere. With todays DGT boards and clocks, it would be certainly be possible to gather that info, but definitely an ordeal. (The recent Topalov-Anand match's official website had the clock for each of the players. How impossible would it be to gather the time info for those games??)

 In response to post #57 in the wishlist 2 topic, Erik responded that time-stamps for messages would be impossible because of the different time zones and what not, but as the discussion went, it seems like most people and posts are concerned with the turn-based chess (echess?) and rarely mentions the live chess format. Wishlist #3 adds the bullet point for 'Timestamp messages/moves in echess' and then Wishlist #4 adds a list of enhancements to the Live chess format (I haven't read any posts beyond wishlist 4 yet...) but no timestamps for live chess. I could care less about time stamps for messages(?) or for the turn-based chess, as that would put the stamps into the hours or days and wouldn't generally be useful for improvement OTB. (If you are using hours on your move OTB, you are probably losing lots of games anyway)

  For example, I assume this website creates PGN's the same way any site or engine or database program does, so the tag for time '[%clkms 175000]' should more or less work the same... I'm no computer programmer and I am far from being on a high enough horse to say that the programmers should or can easily enough do this. According to Erik, its not an high priority task, and that I can understand.

In other words, artfizz, yes it must be getting closer, much much closer

The end.

Presumably it's 2 years closer than when it was originally suggested. However - as you say - it's still not important enough to enough people to justify the effort. Also, it would make all of the games listings larger. Does chess.com store PGN or only FEN?

I agree to this option and it would be usefull to have your ingame comments to have timestamp...so you know what were you talking about when that move was made.

Yes, that would be a great option.  Sometime I go over my live games and wonder what I was thinking!  I might feel better if I could see I had less than a second left when I blundered.  

Time-stamping on CC game moves could help to flag up very slow play e.g. months between moves.

BUMP - if you would like time stamping bump this thread!