Feature Requests and Wishlist Thoughts!!?
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Aug 29, 2007
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#82
The worse is that I wouldn't even be surprised that after live chess has gone live, to hear Erik say "feature coming soon".
Worth saying the progress of this site, and how advanced it is already speaks volumes of not only your ability Erik, but your dedication to this site. This makes it a very exciting chess site to be a part of.
One thing that would be cool is when visiting a player's profile, include a section, or a link to past games between the viewer and the player. For example, if I am logged in as me, and i view Erik's profile, I can see readily how many times I've gotten beaten by Erik. Maybe a personal record, and perhaps a link to the individual games.
erik wrote:
a 3d board?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
you mean one that you can rotate? etc? oh my... sure. that feature will be here in 2015.
thats ok...i might be a half decent player by then :)
One thing that has become a slight frustration... at work (where i play most of my chess... they don't pay me enough to actually work) I enjoy looking at co-workers' chess games. We open the analysis board to look at some different lines but find we can not try lines that were not played in the game. If the game ended at move 39, and we move back to move 36, it seems we should be able to use the analysis board to investigate different lines. This would be a low-priority change, but it would be very helpful in studying previous games.
An IMs for friends to keep in touch with each other in Live Chat
or voice chat in a IMs
It would be handy for chat room and Voice chat would be good for teacher and pupil enviroment as well.
Just a thought
Aug 31, 2007
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#89
Yes, good suggestions. I believe the Chess.com staff are working on the live chat, but I am not sure about the voice chat. That may come a bit later if at all. Right now the Chess.com staff is working very hard on bringing live chess to the site.
I'm not a programmer or web designer in the least so feel free to disregard this, but it would be interesting if a subsection of the seeks (that is, in addition to the seeks as are currently seen) could be sorted by 'prospective first move'. So for example, supposing you wanted to play as white and open with 1. e4 (and were willing to advertise this fact) than some sort of function would allow you to put in that first move and when person would accept, then your first move will already be made. Alternately, one might as black place a seek in this subsection for 1.d4, in which a player of white upon accepting, has this move made automatically for them, after which black can continue later on. Possibly, with an optional second move by black that can be input (with perhaps a choice of advertising or not what this move may be or if there is one?) 1. d4 (insert move) after which white can then continue.
This would have the advantage of allowing the acceptance of a seek to be more productive when the seeker is offline at the time of acceptance, and also the specialisation of games. For example, supposing a player wants to improve his game against 1. d4, but nobody will play it! (I know this has happened to me; at least in analogous situations). Of course misuse might be possible so it sounds reasonable that a maximum number of seeks in this subsection per month or year etc. be established.
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Sep 2, 2007
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#91
WEdgards wrote:
I'm not a programmer or web designer in the least so feel free to disregard this, but it would be interesting if a subsection of the seeks (that is, in addition to the seeks as are currently seen) could be sorted by 'prospective first move'. So for example, supposing you wanted to play as white and open with 1. e4 (and were willing to advertise this fact) than some sort of function would allow you to put in that first move and when person would accept, then your first move will already be made. Alternately, one might as black place a seek in this subsection for 1.d4, in which a player of white upon accepting, has this move made automatically for them, after which black can continue later on. Possibly, with an optional second move by black that can be input (with perhaps a choice of advertising or not what this move may be or if there is one?) 1. d4 (insert move) after which white can then continue.
This would have the advantage of allowing the acceptance of a seek to be more productive when the seeker is offline at the time of acceptance, and also the specialisation of games. For example, supposing a player wants to improve his game against 1. d4, but nobody will play it! (I know this has happened to me; at least in analogous situations). Of course misuse might be possible so it sounds reasonable that a maximum number of seeks in this subsection per month or year etc. be established.
Comments?
in the future we plan to allow you to specify the opening :)
Would it be possible to track someone's rating over a certain time period, like in a graph? That way, you could see when you were improving and how quickly you were improving.
Sep 2, 2007
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#93
cmh0114 wrote:
Would it be possible to track someone's rating over a certain time period, like in a graph? That way, you could see when you were improving and how quickly you were improving.
gimme a few days...
I would like to see the option of turning off the chat feature in games. I am tired of people in 3 day per move telling me to hurry up after 2 minutes. I don't need running critiques of my moves, taunts to resign, "I AM DA CHESS KILLA", or guys from Sumatra looking for dates. I'm here to play chess, not be harassed by people I don't know.
Sep 3, 2007
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#95
Reservesmonkey wrote: I would like to see the option of turning off the chat feature in games. I am tired of people in 3 day per move telling me to hurry up after 2 minutes. I don't need running critiques of my moves, taunts to resign, "I AM DA CHESS KILLA", or guys from Sumatra looking for dates. I'm here to play chess, not be harassed by people I don't know.
:) great idea. we're going to do this.
A couple of suggestions on the interface:
1. It would be handy if there was a way to quickly toggle through your active games, rather than having to go to My Home...Online Chess... and selecting them. (maybe a "next game" button?). If you've got one very complicated game going and one simple opening in progress, it gets very distracting when you need to jump around.
2. Shouldn't there be an option available for Resign when it's your move?
Reservesmonkey wrote: I would like to see the option of turning off the chat feature in games. I am tired of people in 3 day per move telling me to hurry up after 2 minutes. I don't need running critiques of my moves, taunts to resign, "I AM DA CHESS KILLA", or guys from Sumatra looking for dates. I'm here to play chess, not be harassed by people I don't know.
I'm yet to come across any opponents like that. I don't look forward to the prospect of doing so.
That said, I like the ability to wish my opponent "good luck" & thank them after the game. It would be a shame to play against opponents who don't wish to participate in such basic pleasantries.
Ok.. this is really small and insignificant.. but I see there are England, Scotland and Wales flags, as well as the Republic of Ireland.. is there any chance of a Northern Ireland one?
Oh.. and how about a Chess.com Wiki area? Could be interesting, and as we would be the main contributers, could be a good place to correlate all our chess experience..?
Sep 4, 2007
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#99
LeviathanNI wrote:
Ok.. this is really small and insignificant.. but I see there are England, Scotland and Wales flags, as well as the Republic of Ireland.. is there any chance of a Northern Ireland one?
Oh.. and how about a Chess.com Wiki area? Could be interesting, and as we would be the main contributers, could be a good place to correlate all our chess experience..?
which Northern Ireland flag are you requesting? :)
a wiki? great idea (waving magic wand now.... PRESTO!) = > the Chessopedia!
hahahhahaha...
That would be a FLASH application (?)... I've been waiting for Yahoo to do that for years... Will Chess.com be able to win the chessboard war against the internet giant????