A list of irritating features

Hi. this is a rather good site, but there are a couple of things that need to be improved:

1. Make sure that the game is DRAW whenever there is a 3-fold repetion. This is international standard, and if you try to repeat any position 4 times in Fritz (or whatever standard chess software) it will interrupt after 3 moves and declare DRAW. Game finished. Also, this is also seen in all serious chess books.
2. Make the GameArchieve more visible. It is under Play, but not if you click on the wrong item under Play (e.g., Play instantly). And, why is it under Play in the first place? I don't want to play when I want to analyse my own games. "Play" is something else.
3. The meny system is too "sticky". Whenever you accidentely are close to something with the mouse, the menu activates

You have to claim a 3-time-rep OTB...so why not here as well?

And, all these clearly bogus pop-up windows?? "Click here to win a iPhone".

"WHat do you see on the screen; a spider or an elefant: answer quickly and win a car".

HEllo

any more?

Yeah,always advertising you to upgrade once too many times.and yeah 3fold should be automatic in live chess..i may have only ten sec left!

No, it shouldn't be automatic.  You have to claim it!

this is not true. People say this sometimes, nut this is certainly wrong

If I had to name one feature that irritates me it is the piece gain/loss schematic. Its calculus is that you have gobbled more pieces so you get a higher score. More common and more intuitive is to have a score or bar for what you have left.

Sometimes, there is a loss on time due to this claiming. 

I don't need to claim my right to castle OTB. It is the same thing.

Why can't chess.com be as all other sites??

In the rules of chess, threefold repetition is not an automatic draw. If you're playing OTB and you make a move that repeats the position three times, your opponent can make another move and continue the game.

What you have to do is, after the position that is repeated twice on the board, you call the arbiter, tell her the move you want to make and that it will cause a three fold repetition. Only in this case you can force the draw.

LOL

When I became a diamond member, the ads disappeared instantly. 

I get irritated when I see (opponent) wins by checkmate.

And how about all those jerks who always seem to be dead set on disagreeing with me?

+1. Yes, what is wrong with them? How could anyone slop it up so? Why be a dud when they could be a stud? A chump when they could be a champ? A zero when they could be a hero?

logic

I fear we may be stepping into "monster" territory here.

NimzoDave is NOT related to me - and I already knew that you have to claim a triple-repetition draw!

BTW everyone knows that the triple-repetition doesn't have to be 3x in a row, right? I read that even GMs get confused on recalling a triple-repetition where the position repeats with several "extra" moves in between the repeated position, but that Bobby Fischer could recall triple-repetitions immediately no matter how many moves they were spread out, and in fact salvaged several draws in lost positions where his opponents screwed up and forgot (or didn't notice) the triple repetition.

But that's not insufficient material...

For those who are unfamiliar with the rules of drawing:

Draws adjudged automatically: stalemate, insufficient material

Draws requiring a claim: fifty-move rule, threefold repetition, insufficient losing chances

Many people are not well acquainted with these short lists. Many years ago, I also misunderstood and believed that all draws were automatic. I sympathize with people who are similarly mistaken.

@FirebrandX: RE: "You can lose on time reaching for the draw button. That just seems silly to me." Still, the time disadvantage of reaching for the button is negligible when compared to the OTB-equivalent of needing to summon the tournament director to make the necessary claim.