Good grief, it's 8-16 and the last post to the KID board was on 8-7.   

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. 
The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. 
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, 
And leaves this board to darkness, and to me.

kingscrusher wrote on 08/04/06 at 10:43:58:


Well, hopefully it was a friendly reminder, but the boards suffer greatly from off-topic posts.  The only way to fix that is by informal policing by the people who find threads interesting, I think.

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You can actually do this already.  Click on the name of any member, and then one can view his or her last posts.  For yourself, such a link is under your "profile" (see the buttons at the top of the screen).  For other members, you can click on their name wherever you find it, or else use the members button to browse.

One can also search old posts (and in particular do so by member name), but I think the above feature is the one you are looking for.

Hi all

I am the webmaster of www.chessworld.net which has reasonably active forums. I would like to offer my insights - take them or leave them.

1) Too many forums perhaps?! Sometimes too many forums can be a bad thing - it's like lots of different pigeon holes or rooms to check. Perhaps the "Latest posts independent of forum" must be highlighted more- and in big text?! The overhead of seeing the latest posts in each individual forum is like hard work - like asking someone to open the door of 50 different rooms. 

Also is there another way to group the openings - e.g. by pawn structure?! 

Some of the most popular forums as far as Servers go, are just labelled "Chess" and have a mix of all chess subjects under the sun. The equivalent here would be highlighting the "Latest posts" a bit more. Maybe:-

Latest posts (all)

Latest posts in Open positions
Latest posts in Closed positions
Latest posts in Semi-open positions
Latest posts by GM's
etc

The RSS is a good innovation, but still does not give me a comfortable context

2) Posting "off-topic" becomes very easy to do - I did this in my last post, and was discouraged with the reply that it was in the wrong thread. The energy I used in posting seemed to be not appreciated. Okay, my points may have been rubbish but still. 

3) I can't find where on earth I posted to anyway - I know I posted to the Nimzo indian forum about a Rest of World game position in the Queens Indian, but where was my more general post made?! This might be a side effect of too many forums. Perhaps a "My posts" would be good. Chessgames.com which has kind of forums has a thing where it shows any games which your comment had replies. This is really handy. I don't know where I posted my last post to.

I hope these points may help these forums here. 

Best wishes
Tryfon

blueguitar322 wrote on 07/31/06 at 13:32:54:

I like this idea!  

Some of these posts might contain links to discussion threads where a particular line has been discussed, thereby providing a kind of index which would make older threads easier to find.

I completely understand and didn't mean to "call you out," as the rereading of my post seemed to imply.  It does strike me, however, that the successful games of this ilk are those that tackle lines with minimal existing theory.  Side lines and sub-variations should draw more people...

Would anybody be interested in taking up the White side of the Smyslov Slav (1 d4 d5 2 c4 c6 3 Nf3 Nf6 4 Nc3 dxc4 5 a4 Na6)?  This is a line I'm always coming back to.  I recall somewhere that Smyslov_Fan has enjoyed success with both sides of the Smyslov Slav.  In my books, it qualifies as one of those lines that could really benefit with some careful analysis if anyone would like to take up the White side...

Touché!

I rather hope the analysis is "well done" anyway...