Chess.com Feature Request and Wishlist #5

The stats dashboard on the main page would be improved, I think, by adding a couple of additional stats once you're logged in:  "Friends Online" and "Opponents Online".

Xfcc support -- http://www.xfcc.org/ -- is a great feature for correspondence players. ICCF and SchemingMind both support it (on the server side) and for clients we have SCID and ChessBase as well as some non-database clients.

Despite what the "cheat" obsessed seem to think, it has nothing absolutely nothing to do with cheating. Cheaters will jump through endless hoops to cheat, lack of convenience isn't an issue for them and the main of players shouldn't be punished because of a few idiots.

Xfcc allows players who take their correspondence games seriously to better manage their games, store their non-engine analyzed lines, make use of their databases and opening books, etc. Serious players are going to keep notes documenting ideas and possible variations whether or not their server makes it easy to do so. Xfcc makes life better for them.

FWIW, I understand that Austin over at SchemingMind was successful in convincing ChessBase to disallow engine kibitzing for Xfcc games from SchemingMind.

i cannot find my original post but i meant all member games, like the mastergames database. it features all chess.com games...

When I first log on and go into the forums section, I often look at the "Most Recent Posts", as I am sure many people do.  Any thoughts of making the "Most Recent Posts" running down the right hand side of the Forums screen longer, so we can see maybe the most recent 20 or 25 instead of 10 or 15?  The screen scroll length is already determined by the list of forums on the left, so if you were to make the Most Recent Posts that long as well, we could see a lot more with no negative affect on screen real estate.  Thoughts?

Tournament game download would be nice.  One of the reasons people organize and play in thematic tournaments is to learn about that opening.  Something I'd like to be able to do is download the PGNs of the completed games in a thematic and put them into a database to study.  Unfortunately the current process for doing this is extremely cumbersome.  You have to go into the tournament, list the games, then browse each one and individually download them.  A function that grabs all of them would be very handy.

You can do this from your games archive using the checkboxes beside each game and the "Download PGN" button.

Votechess needs attention. New users would be very confused by what they see when they select this for the first time. 

He's talking about all games played in a tournament, not just his own games.  I agree that that feature would be an excellent one.

I've seen the effect you're talking about, but there are a couple of pitfalls with this proposal.  It's not a bad idea, just potentially troublesome.  How do you distinguish between someone who can handle their games in progress and someone who can't?  Also the limit would presumably apply only at the start, so a player could be under the limit and join, but then get over their head.

I would like to see the account of a troll like demetrios18 get closed. See the post below:

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/kasparov3

Yes, I have to second this -- not only that, but it when you make captures in the analysis board, it shows the pieces captured as well.  However, I did notice (and this isn't a big deal, just thought you might want to know) that once you make "hypothetical" moves/captures, and then if you then click "Current", all the pieces go back to the current status, the pieces captured goes back the current status, but the move list still shows the hypothetical future moves (maybe this is on purpose, so you can see what you did?).  Regardless, great update on the analysis board - sounds like a small thing, but very much appreciated.  Note that all the comments above are directed towards the online analysis board, not the vote chess one.

I think you'll find that as you arrow forward through the hypothetical future moves, the captured peice list updates when the moves are played through -- I believe this is functioning as designed.

Is there any chance we could also sort the tournaments by #of simultaneous games played?  For each tournament, I see "You will play ~3 (or 5 or 10, etc.) simultaneous games".  That would be great if we could sort by that as well, so we know what we're in for. 

I'd like to second everything this man said!

Here are two new feature requests:

1) An option to see all my Vote Chess games (I think this has already been suggested).

2) An option to see all my Team Matches. It is hard to remember all the matches in which I am participating, especially when both my games are finished. I often completely forget that the match is still be going on, and I forget to check the final outcome which can be months later. This would be similar to the Tournaments screen in that you could see current matches, completed matches, and upcoming matches (e.g.-matches that are not yet locked, but that you have signed up to participate in).

 I completely agree with this.  This would be very helpful in determining admins, as we would know who contributes most.  Sort of like the point system throughout the entire site, but this would track points specific to each group.  I'd love that! 

live chess tournaments

heres live chess tournements, there not to good but you can try them http://www.chess.com/groups/home/live-chess-tournament

Suggestion:  on a person's "Full Stats" userpage, maybe hotlink the "Glicko RD" field to a help file that will help explain better what it means.  I recently discovered what it meant, and found out that it is quite helpful (it is a measure of how well you rating reflects your true chess playing ability) and is actually a good incentive for me to upgrade my account so I can see all players' Gilcko RD ratings so I know that the 1050 I am playing isn't really a 1625 that has bailed on a lot of games.

Tactics Trainer is brilliant but it would be great to be able to revisit a favourite puzzle more easily.  Could we have a "favourites box" where we could enter specific puzzles for viewing again later?