window management - put board in upper left?

With the pace of the games, I'd like to be able to put a small window with the board in the corner and keep in an eye on it.  That why once it repaints after my move, and repaints after their move and it's now ready for me again, I can see it and respond.

When the system repaints, my carefully posistioned board goes away, and the upper left of the page is in the upper left of my screen. 

 Could you perhaps put the board in the upper left?

(I know, the menus couldn't be at the top)

your website repaints the pages after every half move.  in doing to it reposistions the screen so that the upper left is in the upper left, as if you had moved the scroll bar all the up and all the way to the left.

since the chess board is not in the upper left, then, if you've posistioned the chess board using the scroll bars you have to reposistion the board every half move. 

Why not RSS?  well, erik, because I'm not sure i know how to do that!  You ask the question as if it were an answer that would be obvious to the most casual observer!

Is my goggle reader (www.google.com/reader) an RSS reader?  it has an RSS looking symbol....when I tried to add www.chess.com as a subscription it didn't take it.

ah, i see what you mean now. yes, it does refresh after each move. i'm not sure how to get around that. but an interesting question indeed...

when on your chess homepage http://www.chess.com/echess/myhome.html you should see an orange RSS button in the address bar. but now that i understand your problem, this won't help you (it just notifies you when it is your turn to move). i'm not sure of the best way to help you with this - again, it is an interesting request!

you might be onto something.  I researched frames and found "iframes" - see below.  but it looks like a developer tool not a user tool.

In Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 and later, frames are windowless, resulting in greatly improved performance. In addition, Internet Explorer 5.5 and later can now overlap IFRAME elements—also known as inline floating frames—and can make the content inside inline floating frames transparent.

Inline floating frames provide the following features:

• Increased performance over previous versions of Windows Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 5.5 and later have been optimized to handle inline floating frames more efficiently. This means faster rendering, less memory, and faster scrolling.
• Inline floating frames can be stacked over other inline floating frames.
• Inline floating frames can contain transparent content.

The following topics are discussed in this document:

• Creating Inline Floating Frames
• Using Transparency with Inline Floating Frames
• Stacking Inline Floating Frames
• Related Topics

Creating Inline Floating Frames

To create a inline floating frame, use the IFRAME tag.

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<iframe name="Frame1" src="frame.htm" > </iframe> 

The IFRAME tag creates a floating frame at its location in the HTML file. Internet Explorer renders the frame inline. The SRC attribute specifies the content to be displayed within the frame.

You can also place content into the previous IFRAME tag by using a frame destination, as follows:

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<a href="http://www.microsoft.com" target="Frame1">See Microsoft's Web Site</a> 

The previous example creates a hyperlink that navigates to Microsoft's Web site inside the inline floating frame. It uses the TARGET attribute to load the Web page into the IFRAME. The NAME attribute on the IFRAME tag indicates the TARGET for the A tag.

 If you go to www.ogame.org (online mmo) it has the exact setup that would work for this, except instead of the side thing never reloading, do the exact opposite so you have your board on the side, and can just do everything while only that reloads.

They are called IFrames in html, but if I recall there is something of the same idea in php, but I'm not sure what language this whole site is in.

Yes!  That's what I was trying to ask for.

 -doug