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davidmuir

Hi, I have a great idea for chess.com and being a member i would love to speak to someone who will take my idea seriously and even give me some level of protection of my idea before i share the idea as i believe it could be a game changer for the online chess industry and if we go about it the right way im sure we could secure chess.com as the go to website for chess for years to come.

SJCVChess

So do I. Me too. Count me in. I've got an even better, greater idea. Me first.

Disclaimer:

My idea is cribbed from many other previous "ideas," masquerading in disguise as yet-another Phantom Of The Chess Scene that is equally mysterious, has never been seen before, and is also well known!

davidmuir

Haters going to hate. please message me if your the right person to talk to who can verify their position at chess.com and who can guarantee my idea will be respected as my idea moving forward.

WhiteDrake

Unless the idea has anything to do with the chess.com API, you’re barking at the wrong tree. wink.png 

MGleason

Please use the "Make a Suggestion" feature under the Help menu.

bcurtis

I have messaged David. We cannot protect ideas — these are not a legally protected class of intellectual property. Only discrete implementations can be protected via patent, copyright, or trademark. Because we are working on so many great ideas without publicizing them, we cannot express any promise to protect or respect someone's ownership of an idea before hearing it — we might already be working on it, and just hearing the idea can open us up to all sorts of unfair accusations.

So we LOVE that this community is fresh and vibrant and creative and inspiring, but we cannot accept unsolicited ideas. Build it! Get the attention of the community! At that point, we are happy to partner at your request and help broaden the reach. But until you build something, it's not protected, and so we aren't protected, and so we cannot realistically be involved.