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New Features & Fixes - June 30 2009

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30th June 2009, 01:06pm
#1
by erik
Bay Area, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 12891

New updates today!

The biggest one is... Chess960! You can play 960 in normal games or 960 tournaments.

Next big news, the Game Explorer is totally updated and fixed. Includes: removed poor quality games, fixed transposition issues due to en passant FEN, added the most recent GM-level tournament games to update everything, and now all Chess.com member games will import properly.

We have also (fingers crossed!) fixed Tactics Trainer skipping issues. Or if they do happen, you don't get penalized.

Smaller Fixes:

  • fixed some stats/graphing bugs
  • added more results in forum searches
  • you can now delete the first thread of a forum post without taking out the whole thread
  • new boxes on the homepage for logged in users (added tactics and chess mentor instead of mobile and something else :))
  • when you download multiple games they come in one PGN instead of multiple
  • removed access to articles for non-authenticated authors; added process for authenticating quality authors on the site
  • fixed "no spamming" message
  • fixed issue in chrome with "Next Move" icon not showing up
  • fixed photo uploader
  • fixed tactics game view link (to see the actual game)
  • added to mobile API for upcoming iphone app
  • pushed some preparatory code for new live chess 2.0 coming
  • misc mispellings, etc

Enjoy! Thanks to everyone for your support.

30th June 2009, 01:07pm
#2
by Mm40
Essex County, New Jersey United States
Member Since: Sep 2008
Member Points: 3721

First! Nice job.

30th June 2009, 01:08pm
#3
by knightspawn5
United States
Member Since: May 2008
Member Points: 21698

Great Eric, Thanks.

30th June 2009, 01:09pm
#4
by Politicalmusic
Georgia United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 2458

Nice.  A couple of admin's can't post news or updates in their groups now though.  I hope this isn't another bug.  :-).  Good stuff!

30th June 2009, 01:10pm
#5
by baseballplayer
Milwaukee,WI United States
Member Since: Jun 2009
Member Points: 3

very good job. and well done

30th June 2009, 01:10pm
#6
by Politicalmusic
Georgia United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 2458

Disregard last post... chess.com is fixing it now.

30th June 2009, 01:10pm
#7
by kokino
Spain
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 16298

Wow, I was missing 960º on the site and now I see it has become true!

And the update of game explorer! :)

 

Thanks Erik and chess.com staff.... for doing this site everyday even better.! :)

30th June 2009, 01:10pm
#8
by kohai
Chess.com International
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 10762

Awesome Laughing

30th June 2009, 01:11pm
#9
by G-Money9
Chicago United States
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 3372

Sounds great!  Thank you!

30th June 2009, 01:11pm
#10
by swordoflaban
Rio Rancho, NM United States
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 311

Hey that's cool.  I've been wanting to play 960 for a while.  Now the site is perfect ... no wait there is still supposed to be a problem with Live Chess although I've never had a problem. 

You guys just keep making this place better and better.

30th June 2009, 01:11pm
#11
by brfc
Wales
Member Since: Mar 2009
Member Points: 5740

Nice 1 erik! Wanting to play 960 now!

30th June 2009, 01:12pm
#12
by ADK
United States
Member Since: Aug 2007
Member Points: 16871

Cool.

ADK

30th June 2009, 01:13pm
#13
by shemdog
Massachusetts United States
Member Since: Jun 2009
Member Points: 3

sounds pretty cool

30th June 2009, 01:16pm
#14
by HiggsBoson
West Chicago United States
Member Since: Jan 2009
Member Points: 100

Thanks! The game explorer changes sound good, and I eagerly await the iPhone app. Any word on when?

30th June 2009, 01:21pm
#15
by Ideological_Slave2
United States
Member Since: Jun 2009
Member Points: 132

Fixed game explorer? Upcoming iPhone application? Nice, Erik, very nice :-)

30th June 2009, 01:24pm
#16
by DeepGreene
Vancouver Canada
Member Since: Jan 2008
Member Points: 2272

Wow - 960 and Tactics Trainer de-bugging!  Hurray for chess.com!  :-)

30th June 2009, 01:24pm
#17
by erik
Bay Area, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 12891
Masterful_Forfeit wrote:

I'm confused. Where is chess 960? I can't find it anywhere.


create a game (using ADVANCED SETTINGS)

30th June 2009, 01:25pm
#18
by kokino
Spain
Member Since: Feb 2009
Member Points: 16298

Hey, I have been quick and I have organised the first chess960 tournament:

Chess960 Tournament1st Chess 960 TOURNAMENT

 

Please join! :) Feel the new experiences here in chess.com! :)

30th June 2009, 01:26pm
#19
by Scarblac
Arnhem Netherlands
Member Since: Nov 2008
Member Points: 2009

There is a new bug in Game Explorer :-(

In my own games as Black, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, it says I played 3...Nf6 three times, and this is true. But after that move, it says 4.d3 and 4.Bxc6 happened once each, and 4.Nc3 happened twice!

The thing is that the position after 4.Nc3 also happened once after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5.

So the position after 4.Nc3 happened twice, but the move was played in the position after 3...Nf6 only once!

30th June 2009, 01:28pm
#20
by erik
Bay Area, CA United States
Member Since: May 2007
Member Points: 12891
Scarblac wrote:

There is a new bug in Game Explorer :-(

In my own games as Black, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, it says I played 3...Nf6 three times, and this is true. But after that move, it says 4.d3 and 4.Bxc6 happened once each, and 4.Nc3 happened twice!

The thing is that the position after 4.Nc3 also happened once after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5.

So the position after 4.Nc3 happened twice, but the move was played in the position after 3...Nf6 only once!


it's not about moves... it's about positions!

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