Feature Request: Tournament Filter / Selection Wizard

 A tournament selector wizard is overdue, given that there are thousands of tournaments to choose from. It would need broadly the same set of parameters as in the Create Tournament form … e.g.

There should be a DON'T CARE option for each parameter, obviously.

Yeah.

So you'd like this GLOBAL option separated into two?

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I would like for it to be an option in each group settings to switch off invites like you can alerts

This would be nice.

Currently, group settings relate to the whole group (e.g. whether the group does Team Matches) and individual settings refer to everything the individual does globally (e.g. accept challenges; receive messages). It could become onerous to manage - for people that belong to dozens of groups, do you not think?

Someone creates a tournament. Then that TD uses Invite Players -> Invite a group I manage. The TD (who must be a group admin) doesn't use any group members names explicitly. (In any case, the group admin has no way of knowing whether somebody wants tournaments invitations or not.) That certainly seems to be a bug; chess.com ought to take account of members' tournament preferences. Individuals don't need a tournament preference for each group though.

What happens if the TD uses Invite Players -> Invite individual players instead? Does that also ignore individual members tournament preferences? IF THAT DOES WORK CORRECTLY, then each group could maintain a list of its members that don't want tournament invitations, and group admins could consult this list BEFORE sending out an explicit invitations. (This would be like the British TPS ([Telephone Preference Service] which enables people to register to opt out of cold-calling phone calls). I would propose using a permanent Dummy Team Match to keep track of the No-Tournamentors.

I'm agreeing with you - but I'm still trying to understand the issue. Also, I'm wondering whether there may be a temporary workaround while we wait for the problem to be fixed.

I bet this query would be expensive in database terms though.

A further complication is that Diamond members have greater tournament-creation powers than Gold members (and basic members have none at all). So the tournament search facility might need to be similarly tiered.

A Tournament Selection Wizard is an obvious candidate for a 3rd-party add-on, along the lines of Jason's chesscom-notify-v10 and Kevin's chesscalendar.

It would be nice, if you can search on the same filters when you are looking for a tournament. E.g. maximum players, rating, format, days, size of poule, etc.

Upcoming Tournaments can be sorted by:

• Start Date
• Alphabetical
• Registered Players
• Max Players
• Time Control (faster)
• Time Control (slower)

Sorting by Fewest Places Remaining would be a lot more useful than sorting by Registered Players or Max Players. e.g. (see 3rd column)

Similarly, sorting by rating range would be a useful addition. e.g. (see 6th column)

I've written a script to drive the browser (Chrome or IE) to step through the pages of the Upcoming Tournaments list, extracting the information. I can then sort it or filter it.

Unfortunately, it's not robust enough for general use yet.