Why can't chess.com do these *simple* things?? - Chess Forums

Cherub_Enjel

Feb 15, 2017

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#1

A while ago, I posted a thread where I stated that certain changes be made to the mating-material algorithm that currently allows black to draw the following position by letting his/her time run out:

Chess.com has their reasons for not changing the current drawing algorithms, and while I disagree, here are some even simpler, easier suggestions I have. Who could possibly disagree with these?

(1) To register for chess.com, you need a "captcha" confirmation - you have to type in those distorted characters that confuse bots and prevent them from creating a spam account and spamming the forums with useless garbage.

(2) To post in the forums, you need to win 5 rated, daily games, each of which must be played with time control at least 3 days/move, and against at least 3 different established players (players who have won at least 20 rated, daily games - good thing we have plenty of those right now).

This will make it much more trouble than its worth for spammers to spam the forums here, and they will go to gameknot.com or redhotpawn.com (which are worse than chess.com in every single way other than security, so don't mute/ban me) to do their spamming.

Some have suggested even greater countermeasures, but I think this should be a start right now - it will not decrease new registration, because you are free to play chess.

wanmokewan

Feb 16, 2017

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#2

And what if I don't like daily chess?

Cherub_Enjel

Feb 16, 2017

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#3

(1) The vast majority of single endgame positions appear between never and almost never. That's not the point - this is a simple, simple fix. And it's not even what I'm talking about.

(2) My suggestions are not final - they could institute a 30 day silence in forums after registration. My ideas aren't the only ones - but why are they letting bots sign up and spam the forums immediately?

MickinMD

Feb 16, 2017

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#4

You would be cruel enough to force people who aren't interest to play five 3 days/move games in order to post?

That's like forcing high school track athletes to walk the entire Appalachian Trail before they're allowed to talk to the newspaper reporters about their mile run!

And I say that as a semi-finalist in the USCF Postal Chess Championship from the 1970's - when no one had computers or huge databases to figure out their moves for them: when we left Modern Chess Openings were we on our own (USCF Correspondence Rating: 2116)!

Cherub_Enjel

Feb 16, 2017

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#5

I can hear your sarcasm - but not even that - yes, a few daily games for forum posting won't hurt anyone, but they don't even have to do this. They can literally put anything they want instead of allowing unrestricted access, and block out the players who join and post garbage 10 minutes later.

Senior-Lazarus_Long

Feb 16, 2017

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#6

The John Muir Trail is the correct choice for chess players.