Great idea Art, but it needs to be availibly to all players.....
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Feb 7, 2009
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#103
Trophies with movies quotes woulde be funny, or rock songs quotes.
How about a picture of Freddy Mercury, and the quote: "I am the champion, my friend" (Ok, that was lame)
how about a "worthy opponent" trophy for those players or friends you play frequently that you have an almost or equal win/loss record against each other. Maybe have two people in karate uniforms bowing to each other.(or something to that effect)
Good Idea Boots!!! I like that one!!!
i could not read through all the ideas but there are a lot of good ones. However, in response to an earlier statement that online chess has to work correctly, i would like to say that anyone who claims to employ logic in their life should be using mozilla firefox browser. So far i have not experienced any problems with it on this site, whether playing live chess or otherwise. it is hands down the solution to the majority of internet problems and it is free.
Feb 9, 2009
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#108
paul211 wrote: ... I need to learn to insert pictures or images in my text.
There's an explanatation of the method here ... screenshots and here ... uploading pics
Beware of this recent probem ... http://www.chess.com/forum/view/help-support/google-chrome-refusing-to-insert-pictures - if you are using Google Chrome browser.
Feb 9, 2009
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#109
paul211 wrote:
We have currently 60 trophies to award.
I think that anywhere between 200 and 500 trophies available would be a good start, the total number not to exceed I think 500.
What is needed from here on I think is to suggest or organize trophies in groups.
Reading all of the posts, the following categories can be a start up point:
1. Jokes, post #85
2. Friends several posts, see #5
3. Smiley's and winks and other emoticons.
4. Difficult gains, #9
5. Groups and tournament trophies.
6. Losers, posts #44, #45
7. Incredible, post# 18
8. Mystery, post #43
9. Game of hazard, luck, fortune
10. Chess pieces, posts #71 and #89
11. Winners
12. Pictures of unbeatable one's, Karaspov, Fisher, Carlson, J.Polgar, etc. .
13. Nature trophies
14. Flower trophies
These are a few suggestions, from the posters and myself.
I suggest that additionally in each of the categories there could be one open trophy, where a member could post his image or picture of a trophy to be sent to the opponent.
Anyone want to suggest more or different categories?
The current 56 trophies are presented 12 to a page, using a size of about 1/2" by 1/2" (equivalent to Large Icons Directory View under Vista). If the number of trophies becomes much greater, scrolling through them a page at a time will become distinctly tedious. One possible alternative is offer a smaller icon size as well (say medium Icons in Vista terms), which would allow 25 icons to be displayed in the same space now occupied by 12 large ones.
A difficulty with the categorization Paul suggests is that no two people will agree on the categories; they will be too subjective. If it were possible to sort the trophies by name as well as by their chronological order of creation (i.e. the current scheme), that would help those people who organise things verbally rather than pictorally.
One factor possibly holding back more widespread use of trophies is that you can only view them at the point of awarding them. If they were first-class objects (like chess games or forum topics), they could be viewed at any time - independent of a particular game or opponent (without having to resort to the Billium Method trick).
How about best admin?
KIESH2
smiles! :)
Hi all,
Apparently it is easy to especulate with simultaneous matches.
I see some players using the vacation flag when they are loosing so that they restart the game once one's rating gets better so that theirs is not so damaged.
Suggestions:
1. the rating should increase-decrease according to the rating at the starting of the match.
2. No vacation flag should be allowed at all.
3. There should be punishment for the abusers, or at least label someone with an "abuser" at the forehead.
4. Or even easier: forbid the simultaneous matches of a player.
Bests.
FS
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Mar 6, 2009
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#115
"I know that technically speaking, there are only two places, but your playing deserves special recognition."
how about for regular game use
Mar 13, 2009
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#118
artfizz wrote: 3rd PLACE "I know that technically speaking, there are only two places, but your playing deserves special recognition."
program4 wrote: how about for regular game use
That was what I had in mind.
We could use some more trophies to give to those that lose a game. so far it's either good game, or good sportsman ship.... We could use about 7 or 8 more for a little variety.