Hi Greg,
I think your forum has a lot of potential. It's clean and well organized, and I've been seeing your member growing. Hope it will become a very active forum one day!

I'm thinking after playing online chess a lot , this could be a great place to cool down the brains. Why not create a section 'lighter side of chess' or somehting, where people can add funny chess stories or youtube links? Everyone can use some good laughs.

Another suggestion is something like rottentomatoes.com, where people can submit their chess games, books, arts, products, etc... for review. Perhaps you will have an official panel of reviewers, or perhaps just the public who do the reviews. Not sure how effective this would be though, but certainly people value opinion of others especially buying a book or something.

Just throwing some ideas for thought

for things like chess jokes post things on the off topic descusion place.

Like Robert said, there's an Off-Topic Forum for stuff like that. But maybe there could be an Off-Topic-but-still-Chess-related Forum for chess stories and chess links

Sounds good But there are already sections where people can submit their games, books can get analyzed... and those sections aren't too active yet... So I'm not sure if there's a big request for that yet.