Feature Requests and Wishlist Thoughts!!?

CuervoKing wrote: How about an "Ignore" feature in the Live Chess chat?  Some people (I'm sure they must be) enjoy tormenting the rest of the chat room with their abusive and offensive language.  Seems like the simplest solution would be to allow users to ignore another user and never have to see that persons witty comments again.

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 I find chat an unneeded feature for Live chess, with too much potential for abuse. The general chat is mindless banter. Chatting with an opponent is also superfluous for me because I'm so absorbed in trying to make my move that I ignore seemingly polite conversation. If I want to chat and play chess at the same time, I will use the turn based interface. I would just like a few buttons in Live Chess saying "Good move!" "Drat! I think I made a mistake" and "Thanks for the game". I basically don't want to hear anything else either. There are better channels for messaging and other chess servers available that cater to a mindless melee of chatter. Why waste engineering manpower on unneeded chat. You'll spend double the effort enabling mechanisms for users to filter out what they don't need in the first place.

 

This is a perfect example of why I don't need chat with blitz. I make a simple observation about a problem with the software and someone takes it the wrong way,

Just a minor frustration with the tournaments: 

When inviting users to a tournament there's no error message when the invite is not successful.  I've had this occur for two different reasons -- the first being that I miskeyed the user-name and the user I tried to invite doesn't exist, and the second being that the user I tried to invite is not accepting invitations.  Not only can I not tell which case has occurred, the only way I can determine that the invite was not successful is by viewing the "Manage Players" screen and noticing that they have not been added to the list of invitees.  You should get immediate feedback indicating success or failure, and should get a reason when the invite was unsuccessful.  Even better would be to force the selection of users to be from a searchable list of only those users accepting invites so that an invite would always be successful.

I wish the Chess Tactics Trainer basic membership timer really WAS 10 problems a day and not 24 hours from your last problem.  I did 8 problems yesterday, got interrupted, and did 2 problems today.  Now I have to wait another day to do any more at all.  That really doesn't give me 10 problems a day. Also, if I do 10 problems at night, if I don't have the next night free, I basically have to wait 2 days to do any more.  Any way the Tactics Trainer can REALLY be set for 10 problems a day for real?

Just buy a membership. It's really cheap, and then you will have infinite tactics trainer and no stress. It's not that expensive at all.

I didn't read all the comments here, so I would imagine that somebody else already said this, but ... conditional moves would be nice.  Also, in the messages, it would be nice to have a time and date stamp, so that when one reads a message one knows when it was sent (in some cases, this matters).  Also, pardon my whining, but I can't stand when I extend a challenge and it gets no reply at all, and I see the player in question on-line and playing other games.  A simple "no" would suffice, and no questions asked.  So you might consider enforcing manners, as in challenges must be answered before a player can dig into their games.  Just a thought.  Thank you for the great site!

PerfectGent wrote:

when receiving a trophy at the end of a game it would be nice to have the option to send a reply rather than having to go to that players page and send a message.

 

regards PG 

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Yes, I would agree with this!

Sandyboots wrote: I think it would be nice if we could search for players in a particular area, i.e. State, Province, Country.  I would love to be able to play with others in my State, but there is no way to know them.  Don't get me wrong, I love the people I've been playing on a regular basis from all over the world, they are absolutely terrific people, but to have the ability to pick a State, Province or Country would be wonderful. 

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I agree with this one too.  Along these same lines, can something be done about players who have not logged on for, say, a month?  I have on occasion challenged a player only to later find that they have been off this site for months.  Yet they still appear in searches.  Also, some players submit false information regarding names and locations, and this would dilute the ability of a player such as Sandyboots to locate the players (s)he wants to locate.  I'm not sure what the solution is, but just thought I'd raise the issue.

Matalino wrote:

ABORT uncounted games and timeout:

 

When a game that has not reached a specified number of moves times out or ends in a checkmate, that game is not counted.

 

Since these games are not counted, why not give the player the option to ABORT them.

 

In other words, KEEP THE ABORT OPTION AVAILABLE as long as a game will not count if it terminates on a timeout or checkmate.

 

This, for example,  would allow a player to abort a game when an opponent goes on vacation on a game that has just started.  Or for some other reason a player would like to discontinue a game and not have it counted.

 

 

 

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Speaking of time-outs, I will offer this analogy.  In soccer, a win is three points, a tie one, and a loss zero.  But in the league I play in, a forfeit counts as -1 (that is, negative one -- the team actually loses a point for a forfeit).  Why not discourage time-outs here by increasing the points lost when the loss is due to this most irritating time-out?

On the request for a 'sound' when a move is made, how about a scream of anguish when it is about to lead to your being checkmated?

Someone on "open seeks" had  eleven seeks for 1 day games - plus had ten new 1 day games going [all waiting for his first/second move] on his games page .. I'm not disputing how fast he/she can play all them games at once, i just wondered if  there something that can limit how many open seeks one person can have at any

one time ?

I often revisit the games I've lost and try to analyze for better moves. The thing I really wish I could do is invite some one to pickup a game from a specific move and play a different continuation. Not sure there will be takers. Also, is "undo" or "requesting to take a move back" considered unprofessional? If not, why not introduce that feature? I think it helps "lower ranked" players to improve their game without resigning too early. I would rather concede defeat, but continue with chances to recover from mistakes!  What do others feel about this?

Animations on live chess when the pieces move?

I wish to see classification (ECO code) of opennings in the list of games. It will be especially useful if (or when) chess.com will introduce Fischer random variant. For chess960 the code format could be like #123 or F123 (as F is the next after E and is not occupied yet ;)

a very small addition to the wishlist- i wish i could go through played moves with the arrow keys or the scroll wheel to remind myself of the position on turn based games, rather than clicking on each move with the mouse which seems to take ages :) other than that perfect imho

shleena wrote: a very small addition to the wishlist- i wish i could go through played moves with the arrow keys or the scroll wheel to remind myself of the position on turn based games, rather than clicking on each move with the mouse which seems to take ages :) other than that perfect imho

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 That is a great idea! I'll second that.

Baseballfan wrote: shleena wrote: a very small addition to the wishlist- i wish i could go through played moves with the arrow keys or the scroll wheel to remind myself of the position on turn based games, rather than clicking on each move with the mouse which seems to take ages :) other than that perfect imho

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 That is a great idea! I'll second that.

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 i WISH we could do that. but we can't, because those arrows are needed when you navigate in the text boxes on the page (comments, notes, etc) and you can't use it in both :( perhaps we can do something like alt+arrow...

I would also like the option of playing chess variants, especially Fischer Random Chess. 

Does a blackberry-friendly version exist?  When I try to access on my blackberry the content is unusable...  Would be very handy if I could make moves from my phone..

1. Rivals: Operates on the same sort of things as friends, but it keeps a record (like 23-15-7).

2. More trophy categories(rivals, tournament, etc.)

3. Chess960

sounds good