Feature Requests and Wishlist Thoughts!!?
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why limit open seeks if a person makes all of his/her moves?
Col wrote:
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..
This is a horrible idea. A wonderful, horrible idea. My girlfriend already can't stand my Blackberry, and chess.com is fast rising on her list of things I do compulsively that drive her nuts (yes, it's a long list). Add to that the likelyhood that I'll play from work (which I do already, only with a far greater change of getting caught with the full-size board on my screen) and this is just the type of thing that could simultaneously doom both my personal and professional lives.
I say do it.
How about when creating games, we have the ability to create more than one at a time. I don't mean have the ability to create 50 seeks at once, but sometimes I know I want to create several seeks all with the same time/rating settings. I'd like to have a pulldown that says, "number of games" that goes from like 1 to 5. Would this be possible?
A few suggestions regarding live beta :
The computer accepted my seek - I think if people want to play the prog, they will click on it.
It would be good if you could see the rating of an opponent who sends an invitation.
The ability to see who's spectating a game.
The ability to see 10ths of a second would be good for bullet.
I think it would be better and more precise if "bonus time" was renamed increments as is the correct terminology. And "quick" should be bullet imo. I think "slow" is ok though.
Otherwise, I really love it and it's a pleasure to watch it evolve.
A "report post" button at the bottom of every thread or message in the forums. The spammers are starting to gather.
Mar 15, 2008
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#446
Baseballfan wrote: How about when creating games, we have the ability to create more than one at a time. I don't mean have the ability to create 50 seeks at once, but sometimes I know I want to create several seeks all with the same time/rating settings. I'd like to have a pulldown that says, "number of games" that goes from like 1 to 5. Would this be possible?
How can you play more than 1 LIVE game at a time... are you that good? lol And if you're in a game and someone accepts your other seeks then they wait for you to finish your other game before they get to play you.
Mar 15, 2008
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#447
BigStupidFingers wrote: Baseballfan wrote: How about when creating games, we have the ability to create more than one at a time. I don't mean have the ability to create 50 seeks at once, but sometimes I know I want to create several seeks all with the same time/rating settings. I'd like to have a pulldown that says, "number of games" that goes from like 1 to 5. Would this be possible?
How can you play more than 1 LIVE game at a time... are you that good? lol And if you're in a game and someone accepts your other seeks then they wait for you to finish your other game before they get to play you.
I can imagine a GM might give a simultanious exhibition, playing 50 games.
RooksBailey wrote: A "report post" button at the bottom of every thread or message in the forums. The spammers are starting to gather.
I know what you're saying on this one, and I too think that sometimes some threads can get out of hand - but think of this: Jay, Erik, Piotr and all of the staff are already working tons just to keep up with, well, the suggestions in this very thread. I actually think that they'd need to hire one or two thread moderators who could do this kindof thing full time. Can you imagine the potential abuse? People reporting each other out of spite, a single post getting reported multiple times. For the most part, I think that the community does work it all out, and that the staff are already on top of the problem as well as they can be. Anything TOO excessive can be reported using the "report abuse" link. I dunno, I'm just saying.
/P.s. Erik, if you're looking for mods, consider my hand raised. Heh.
Mar 15, 2008
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#449
I would like to see games that are too short to affect player ratings not go down on the win/loss record. Any comments? There could be some limitations to this, example if you have actually mated your opponent / been mated, but with 1 or 2 move resignations or timeouts, its seems silly.
I ask this because a tournament I was registered in started early, while i was working 70 hr weeks. I did not have the spare time for it, but upon withdrawing received 14 losses which also made my recent games archive look nasty hehe.
If I've overlooked something obvious I won't be too suprised..
I ask this because a tournament I was registered in started early, while i was working 70 hr weeks. I did not have the spare time for it, but upon withdrawing received 14 losses which also made my recent games archive look nasty hehe.
If I've overlooked something obvious I won't be too suprised..
BigStupidFingers wrote: Baseballfan wrote: How about when creating games, we have the ability to create more than one at a time. I don't mean have the ability to create 50 seeks at once, but sometimes I know I want to create several seeks all with the same time/rating settings. I'd like to have a pulldown that says, "number of games" that goes from like 1 to 5. Would this be possible?
How can you play more than 1 LIVE game at a time... are you that good? lol And if you're in a game and someone accepts your other seeks then they wait for you to finish your other game before they get to play you.
Sorry if I gave the impression that I was talking about live games, Im not, I was referring to the turn-based games.
Here's another one I thought of. When we play a game from a point other than the traditional starting point, like in a thematic tournament, would it be possible to have the system add the first few moves to the .pgn file so that when we download the .pgn, it's not broken?
Mar 16, 2008
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#452
Maybe someone mentioned this already but export PGN from Live-Play would be nice.
Mar 16, 2008
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#453
How about a chess clock? Not for online games, but for a real-time game someone might be playing.
I'd be particularly happy if it was iPhone compatible. 
idk if its already been suggested... but an idea to improve vote chess, and make it a better environment, would be to have the link to join a team, first take you to a page outlining basic guidlines to follow for things like common courtesy , and maybe even guidlines for the use of teamwork... kindof like the sticky on forum rules, becuase vote chess is a kind forum... or like the firstfew team chat posts... the ones trying to get the team working together... like ' ok team if we communicate and work together we'll be good... make sure you check the analysis before you vote, and try not to bicker' ok crudily written example but you get the point...
record of our game into .pgn files for live chess (just like turn-based chess)...that would be heaven
I'll second Foodle's request; I'd like to be able to get PGN's for my live games. Also, I'd like to suggest that the live chess windowing system be adjusted somehow (I don't know exactly how, but I don't know all that much about web pages) so the right half of the last digit of my time doesn't get cut off. Another request: I'd like to be able to see the national flag of my opponent in live chess, just like in turn-based chess (this is also done on [edit] other sites [/edit], where I also play from time to time).
Mar 18, 2008
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#457
there are so many changes coming to live chess that i can't even keep track of them. flags and pgns are just a few :)
Suggestion: I'd like to see a feature where you can set up a position to play from instead of having to select an opening position. Also (I acknowledge that there might not be as much demand for this feature) chess varients such as Fischerandom chess, Seirawan chess, archbishop chess, Archbishop chess, [especially] Bongcloud chess (where the objective is to get your King to the other side-I've already seen an unrated tournament in which participants were required to resign if their opponent reached the other side with his King first)...
Idea: A quick way to find a member's tournament "group". It took some time to find the "Erik" pairing group among the 200+ groups in the 1400-1800 tournament.
