Chess.com Feature Request and Wishlist #4

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Avatar of Avic22

How about a feature to enable us to host blitz tournament in live chess ? just like in ICC

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I see a future where chess.com is so perfect there will be no more suggestions!

Just 60 years to go!!!! Smile

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 Over the board tournaments throughout the United States and the world .

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It would be greatly appreciated by me and, I believe, others, like me, who are growing older and whose eyesight, even with glasses, makes reading the algebraic letters and numbers on the site chessboard somewhat difficult -- if Chess.com would make them just a bit larger.    

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Nytik wrote: I see a future where chess.com is so perfect there will be no more suggestions! Just 60 years to go!!!! Smile

Why do I find that somewhat hard to believe?

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Erik,

I would love to have the chance to put our Tactics Trainer on our personal profile with the score and/or graph of your current tactics trainer score there as well.  What do you think?

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nice list. For live chess it would be nice if the following can be added:

1. record time left for players at the end of games?

2. games won through disconnection, described as disconnected win instead of "resign".

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For a long time my "Best Win" stat listed a player whose rating after my victory was somewhere around 1570.  Trouble is, that win was on timeout near the beginning of the game and so I felt like that wasn't really a legitimate stat.  I've been improving over the last year or so, however, and I was hoping to beat someone by checkmate, resignation, or even timeout (if he was in a resignable position) so that I could feel like my "best win" was really a win I deserved.  I had a couple of interesting (though unclear) positions against people who were rated a bit higher, and I was hoping that I'd win at least one of these games so that I could replace the name and rating in that stat with someone I'd actually beaten at chess (don't give me the "time management is part of the game" line because I know that in turnbased chess time management often comes down to having some personal issue such as a hospitalization, wedding, or death in the family on the other side of the country and not being able to go on vacation because you're using Internet Explorer and it won't take when you tell it to go on vacation, or something like that where the person lost not because of poor time management but because of real-life events that interrupted the person's ability to play online chess).  However, my hopes were dashed as a 2200+ (now 2100+) player timed out against me in a game where I was down an exchange and a pawn and had a passive position.  Now my "best win" stat will have his name for the rest of my Chess.com career as I will never be able to beat someone that good (this is because I don't have the time to put into chess because my ambition to pursue skill in chess has always taken a backseat to my ambition to pursue skill in music).  So my feature request is:

New stat:  best non-timeout win.  Of course, if you honestly felt that your opponent was in a lost position when he timed out, you could consider your "best win" stat to be legitimate, but I'd like the Best Non-Timeout Win stat anyway.

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my top 4 people that hav eshown on my best win stat are all due to time first it was stijinte 1399 rating due to time out about turn 8, then it was some guy i won on time turn 1 rating 1608, then pleasedtomateyou 1638 rating in a even position around turn 17, and now it's against a person who timed 1750 rating

Although i agree somepeople may have had the other person time out while you are in a winning position can you just have the best win on time or best win stat

Avatar of adam920

I would like to, in addition to seeing how many games are in progress, see how many of those games have the opponent online currently.  Oftentimes, I sign on to make all my moves then sign off.  If I see that many are online, I may stay on to wait for them to move then get another move in.

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When issueing a challenge to another group to a match or votechess game, could i please get a message if it is rejected? , also if a group cancels a match that is filling up, could i get a message to say its been cancelled?

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I'd love a game showcase feature, similer to the trophy showcase; displayed in a players public profile. After a game is finished there could be an add this game to my showcase option, an attonation feature for these games would be great as well. Just a thought.

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You can already do this -- use the insert board feature on your profile.

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TheGrobe wrote:

You can already do this -- use the insert board feature on your profile.


 I'd never thought of doing that-what an interesting idea!

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i always agree with chess.com Smile

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I'd still like the "best win" feature to include a "best win not on time"-or perhaps an alternative such as having the computer analyze the final position at the time of a timeout, and the game could only be added to the winner's "best win" statistic only if the computer gives a huge advantage to the winner (or it could be set to award the "best win" anytime the winner is evaluated as having any advantage-this would not change anything except weeding out wins on time against players whom the winner has virtually no chance of beating on position, who worked their way into a winning positionand then lost on time).

I do realize, however, that this would tax the server's system resources due to the relatively large number of games which are won on timeout on this site, even though it would only mean analyzing one position per game.

Avatar of kyleevon

The idea of a postional map of all playerd sounds terrific to me

Avatar of Wilio

Analysis board to analyse the move I want. More explanation: It is move 50 against someone and I open the analysis board, but I want to know what would happen if I did eat his rook on move 44. When I want to analyse move 44, as soon as I move a piece, it takes me back to move 50.

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could we have a 'fen' to copy and paste from votegames please? when posting various lines in the vote games, i have to set up the position from an empty board, i do it, but i suspect many are put of by this and dont bother, if chess.com put a fen window in every votegame, im sure many more members would be encouraged to contribute by posting analysis lines with a board.

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I didn't read all 500+ replies, but if it hasn't been suggested...Add a "current streak" stat to stats box.Smile

 Total: 103

Won: 81 (79%)

Lost: 13 (13%)

Drawn: 9 (9%)

Streak: 5 wins

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