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Variants
Bring back Variants
Conditional moves
We will add it asap
Round-Robin (RR) Correspondence Tournaments
Goal: A flexible, "rolling-start" tournament created by the community. Management & Access Creation: Restricted to Premium Members/ (or maybe 1 active tournament per free account) (to not pollute the system with many tournaments). Eligibility: Only players with an established rating (non-provisional) may join. Capacity: 3 to 9 players. Access Modes: Public: Instant join. Public-Approve: Join request sent to owner for manual approval. Invite-Only: Entry by owner invitation only. Rating Gates: Owner can set optional min_rating and max_rating requirements. Gameplay Logic Legs: * 1-Leg: 1 game vs. each opponent (random colors). 2-Leg: 2 games vs. each opponent (1 White, 1 Black). Time Controls: Fixed options of 1, 3, or 5 days per move. Dynamic "Rolling" Start: * Games trigger as soon as the 3rd participant is joined/approved. Example: When Player 3 joins, 3 games start (1v2, 1v3, 2v3). When Player 4 joins, 3 new games start (4v1, 4v2, 4v3). Strict Exit Policy: Tournament games cannot be cancelled or aborted under any circumstances, regardless of the move count. If a player wishes to stop playing, they must Resign, which awards 2 points to the opponent and 0 to the resignee. Scoring & Tie-Breakers Primary: Points (Win = 2, Draw = 1, Loss = 0). Secondary: Sonneborn-Berger Score. Tertiary: Timeouts, Lower initial rating (rewards the underdog). Final Fallback: Random selection.
new format
DO NOT LIKE NEW FORMAT AT ALL, other players say sometime
Max ranking for Correspondence Invites
There is a lower limit to the rank of a player to accept a Correspondence Invite. It would be nice to have a selectable upper limit so you could play similarly ranked players, like in the old platform.
Time to play order
I would like to be able to set the order of the game to shortest amount of time I have to play be first in the queue.
Conditional moves
Bring back Please Conditional moves
Staged Correspondence Tournaments (Championships)
Allow site administrators to run large-scale, multi-round correspondence chess championships. Players are seeded into groups, winners advance round by round, and early advancement is triggered when a player's lead is mathematically insurmountable. The final round (if ≤8 players remain) merges all advancers into a single Final Group.
Game analysis board
enable game board analysis, with variants, engine valuation of moves(for finished games)
Correspondence Games: give opponent extra time (1/2 days)
give players the option to gift opponent extra time
Correspondence Invites
This is really messed up. I hope you are working on it, everyone is named unknown with a rating of 1200
Realtime Game: force game end
force game end when opponent leaves RT game for 20-30 seconds
Account page
Where can i find an account page! You have my name on my games and it should be kingofthefoos. Please correct
Registrations and rules
On April 1st, I will renew my Premium membership. I do so with great conviction after the fantastic work the new management is doing. And because it's right to pay for the fun, too. And I don't agree with allowing a non-member to play in as many tournaments as they want, as many games as they want. When I signed up way back in February 2013, discovering some very kind people (Neverherebefore and Blackice1616), there was a rule. I myself suffered from it. Rightfully so. Even the member organizing the tournament could have refused my participation. Today I see that my participation in a tournament, due to my score, has been rejected (Your correspondence rating (2440) exceeds the maximum allowed (2344). I tried to understand which member had organized the tournament. But neither of the two registered members is a member. A violation of my membership. I dutifully spend my euros always convinced that the work of others must be paid. For this reason I hope that the old-new manager, after this initial phase, protects the prerogatives of the members. Those who are not members must have limits on tournament registrations, in One to One matches. It is a question of justice and seriousness.
Game collections
Imagine a dedicated space on ChessHere where your most brilliant moments no longer vanish into a crowded match history. With the new Collections feature, you can transform a chaotic archive into a curated gallery, tagging a flawless kingside attack as a "Tactical Masterpiece" or filing away a daring queen trade under "Amazing Sacrifices" with a single click. Whether you are building a private study library to sharpen your endgame or showcasing a public folder of your "Best Wins" to the community, this tool turns your journey from a simple list of results into a living, organized narrative of your growth as a player.
Themed games (ECO Openining)
planned