Do you have wishes?

Our club now has over 140 members. Welcome to the new ones!

Our first internal club tournament is now in progress, with 32 players battling it out, and the first four games have already finished! It has been so far a triumph for our Ecuadorian members, who won all the four games against their opponents!

You can follow the tournament in its page, which has many nice features, such as this chart of all the pairings.

In the matches against other clubs, we had a couple of defeats, against Chess Snipers and Chile Club de Ajedrez Chess-960, but then we again scored victories against Bird Watchers and Feeders, and Storm Riders.

You find here the new coming matches where you can join. And you can follow ongoing club matches here.

And then the final point... Do you have any wishes for the admins? Are you enjoying the matches and the tournament we've set out, or do you have other suggestions? Do you know a good club we should challenge?

Also, if you are getting too many or too few notifications, you can go to the club settings and choose which notifications you want, or switch them all off.

Si quieres la misma información en español, pregúntale a cualquiera de los administradores.

Amazingly, we're more than 140 members. I remember as though it was yesterday when we were only 10 people. Now we're winning most of the matches that we play.

Members: I can answer your doubts as well, just let me know if you have any.

I have listed some things that I'm missing in the clubs in Chess.com, and I'm thinking of writing them as suggestions to Chess.com. They seem to be open to such suggestions from users, though it doesn't guarantee they will do something about it. What do you think @DrMartinezGomez (and others)?

1) Clubs and their open matches should be visible also in the mobile app.

2) When a club match ends, there's no notification. I think many players would be interested in seeing the result of the match in which they played. Therefore, it would be good if there was an automatic notification when a match ends to those players who played in it (except if they disable this notification in their settings), with a link.

3) The club tournament is not visible in the side bar of the club, or anywhere else. Basically, one needs to have the link (which I've shared) to view the tournament and its results, even if one is a player in the tournament.

Are there other issues that should be added?

Of course, we could write to them and hope they do something about it. However, as you pointed out it does not guarantee they will act.

I'm sure plenty of people have already written to them about these suggestions, but for some reason, they do nothing about it. Perhaps they are working on it already. In any case, I'll try to write to them

The thing I'm concerned about the most is the fact that we can't use the club display on the mobile app, which slows things down since one has to use a computer in order to play the matches and, as you may have deducted, it is not affordable to everybody.

Actually, the games come to the mobile app.

So, the only thing people need to use computer for is to join the open matches, to join tournaments, or to see these forum messages.

But the club games can be played normally in the mobile app, like all other games.

True

One can also use the browser with a mobile phone. So, everything that is available in a computer, is also available on phone, but not in the app. But using the club features through the phone browser is a bit cumbersome because of the small screen.

I didn't write to Chess.com yet, but either of us could do it. I think any of the three points would be an improvement, so who knows, maybe they'll consider them as good ideas. You and me are paying members of Chess.com, so comments coming from us might have more weight than the many complaints from unpaying members in the public forums. After all, Chess.com also needs to make its profit - they aren't running this site for charity.

Well, I am not a paying member anymore, but I already wrote to them nonetheless. I hope they take our suggestion into consideration.

Oh, okay... Thanks anyway! Well done.