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Text flow/spacing is off in Aurora 11.0a2 for embedded diagrams: http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/improving-your-game3

New thing after the updates. There is a large gap on the Home Menu that wasn't there before:

The videos search box was a nice, functional little box where you could search for videos on various criteria. The search box in the redesign is just a nonintuitive text box in the upper right corner. Why did you remove so much functionality?

Or nonexistent. That's what the spell checker still is. TT still doesn't work right either.

There should be a way to switch back and forth between an online game you are playing and a position in Game Explorer

When I navigate to the game explorer and begin searching through my games, I can get three moves in (e4, e5, Nf3) and then I get the notification saying "There are no games with this position found in the database." Since I'm a premium member, I'm supposed to have access to all of my games.

There is a button "Feedback on New Design?" at the right of the interface. This button works great in Chrome, but does not seem to work in IE9. It hangs after you have filled the information. You can use the other functionality (crop, drawing boxed etc). It hangs in this screen:

There is now a sound when moving pieces in Online chess - main board, analyze and explore - and no way to turn it off. Only way to get rid of it is to turn of the beta.

As you can see, there is no progress mountian.

I noticed a few posts that said "A few minutes ago" for the post time, and I had thought I had seen them a while ago. Sure enough, when I switched out of the beta, the actual time stamp was 3 hours ago. This is kind of a deal breaker to me. I am not going to be able to use the beta very much while all of the forum timestamps are messed up.

positives: -Study plan included!! :))) i really liked how the study plan was included in the "Learn" heading (i have gone through it before), however i am not a fan of the study plan its self. i believe that this is a very good idea but it should be expanded upon and updated regularly. It should also include more "test" to see which areas you need improvement on. A section on building your own repitoire, developing a proper thought process, and annalyzing and annotating your own games would be amazing!! -modern formate (i personally did not like it, found it kinda child orientated but then again im a simplist) negative: -the Tactics trainer did not work properly -everything seemed slower (it could just be me not liking the look) -i did not like how when you put your mouse over the headers ("play" "learn" "read" etc) you got this big window pop up. i found it annoyingly large and covered up to much of the screen thanks guys for including me in the beta but i prefer the old one. spend your time creating a kick ass study plan instead:))

Danny's Live Session video is, I believe, showing the record date (dec, 2011) rather than the release date (Feb 2, 2012). As an aside, I dropped out of beta to check that, and now I can't find the url to rejoin. Can someone shoot that to me? Thanks! :)

The new site is not good viewable on the iPhone. The pages do not allow you to zoom in or out. Since the screen only displays a small part of the chess board (as below in the screen print - image has been resized to 50% only for easy viewing - not cropped) it is useless on the iPhone. The site seems to work with zoom in and out on Windows Phone 7.

There is a small resize glitch when you click on the top right HOME button when browsing on the iPad. It's displayed in the before and after click screen shots below.

The Comments count on chess.com has always been off by 1. The thread starter is not a comment. A comment is made in response to an existing thread. So the intial post should not be included in the comment count. If no one responds to this, then this would be a thread with zero comments. If 100 people respond, then it would be a thread with 100 comments (and 101 total posts).

The "Activity" column provides information such as: Topics: 22814 Posts: 325399 And while that may be of some interest to someone, it doesn't really tell the user anything particularly useful. What would be useful would be: Topics Since Last Login: xxxxx Posts Since Last Login: xxxx or Topics Today: xxxxx Posts Today: xxxxx I doubt anyone really cares if there's 300,000 posts in the general forum. But they might really be interested in knowing if there are a lot of NEW posts they haven't seen.

Allow one of the outputs from ChessBase/Fritz to be an input to the blog interface. Just a thought.

http://www.chess.com/tournaments/pairings.html?id=36352&round=1 http://grab.by/bLYg http://grab.by/bLYo The tournament navigational panel on the top right corner blocks my view if I want to check the pairings starting from the top. It is only those below that I can actually view. This is for the first image upload. Good luck. For the second image upload, why dont you put the online chess ahead of live chess in the navigational drop down panel? There is a gap between Live Chess and Vote chess. Can't you fix Online Chess either there or ahead of Live Chess? Good Luck.

On Firefox (8.0 and Aurora 10.0a2) the preview post function acutally posts to the page: http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/numbered-lists And the buttons don't work so I can't delete them.

In the old design, when hovering over a flag, the country would show in a tool-tip. In the new design, I don't get that. Not a huge deal, just got used to it :D Aurora 11.0a2