"Play Computer" remembers the last position viewed in Play Chess Online.
To reproduce:
- View any online game.
- Exit the app
- Re-open and select Play Computer
In my case, I get the same position I last viewed among my online games - and then the computer actually moves. (I better not get accused of using an engine because of this.) ;-)
Buttons below board in Online Game view function a bit inconsistently. I've been taken to the Analysis board both by the "?" and the magnifying glass, and I can't seem to make the "+" button do anything in this context.
Play Chess Online > select a game > use the button to access the Action menu.
Here, the "Cancel" button doesn't do anything for me.
Video menu (Holy moly, it's got videos!!!)
- "Begginers" should be "Beginners"
- "Intermidiate" should be "Intermediate"
I have just installed it and noticed several things:
1. Online mode is crashing often, not the whole application but only the buttons and options are becoming white stripes (above and beyond the chessboard)
2. Some of the buttons below the chessboard are not clear enough (for example the icon that looks like a search opens the chat dialog, ? mark opens analysis, Options are being opened by some strange icon, so maybe reconsidering the icons can improve the overall user environment.)
3. Options menu in online mode cannot be closed after opening, by clicking on Cancel. You have to choose an option and then navigate back from that option
4. Maybe strenght on a computer game can be somehow measured in Rating Points so it will be easier to set it up and approximately now your strength. By the way what engine is used for computer game, is it glaurung?
That's it for tonight, I will play with it more tomorrow :)
Did you drag *both* of the files in the folder to iTunes before syncing? I had the same problem.
Thanks. I just double clicked that one file while iTunes was open. Seems to be working better now.
Yeah, for some reason, I just assumed the other one was some kind of documentation or something and I didn't--- OMG, I'm supposed to be WORKING!!
1) Online chess time limits are less granular than the web pages... where the web page says "29 hours" or "46 hours", the iPhone app says "1 days" (also should be "1 day"). For games on which I'm waiting or the opponent is on vacation, it doesn't show anything at all. I'm going to let my game that is currently at 29 hours run long enough to get below 24 hours, and see what happens then. Sorry, gloury.
2) Finished games list is showing times as well -- I have "2 days" on a couple of games that were completed within, the past couple of days. All older games show nothing (as I would expect).
3) Second option on Online game screen, the little arrow inside a box, seems to be some kind of Actions menu... has not worked for me 2 of 3 times. First time I had previously hit the + button to the left of the arrow button, which seems to take me to other games, and it didn't work. Second time I just hit the Actions key and hit cancel, and it worked. Then I hit the Actions key again, and no work again.
Gotta run, I'll check out more later. Looks really nice!
I will log in, and click Online Chess, and not all the time, but a significant portion of the time, the buttons below the chess board will be all white-looking and nothing is there.
Also, can we make a forum topic here for suggestions?
When I make a move against an opponent in Online Chess, I tell it to move somewhere, and it then brings up the Confirmation screen, which I do like. However, what I do NOT like is the fact that it does not show your move before it brings up the confirmation screen, so you have no idea whether or not you actually moved to the square you wanted before it brings up the confirmation screen.
When I go into one of my "Finished Games" and click on the magnifying glass icon (supposed to bring up the chat, right?), it crashes. I am on OS 3.0.
Playing the Computer... I hit what I take to be the Hint button ("?") and it actually goes ahead and makes the move. I get the feeling that the Hint feature is a work in progress, but if not, I'd say that qualifies as a bug. At least it's very non-standard anyway.
2) While in vacation mode accessing a game, clicking on the magnifying glass takes me back to the iTouch main menu.
As in the application crashes from the sounds of things.
Man, I wish I had a game where it was my move....
Man, I wish I had a game where it was my move....
Just send me an unrated test challenge :)
I think you have enough on your plate, don't you? :)
I'm curious about that too...
4) Tactics Trainer -- first problem I tried, I got it wrong. I wanted to see solution, so I chose that from the menu... now what? I don't understand what I'm supposed to do.
5) Also Tactics Trainer -- there's really not much feedback compared to online. It tells me if I'm right or not... and not much else. No percentage, no ratings adjustment, nonothing.
6) Tactics Trainer -- does this have any connection to the existing ratings for our account? Doesn't seem to -- if I solve a problem on iPhone Tactics Trainer, my rating on the web page is unaffected. EDIT: Whoa, scratch that! Apparently it does, maybe it's just not quite real time. I lost about 200 points because I thought it wasn't counting. 
(No big deal, I'll get 'em back.)
7) I can't figure a pattern on this, but sometimes when I choose to play Computer, it starts me off in a non-initial position. It happened once coming out of Tactics Trainer, and once from the main menu. They look like some kind of training problems when it does it?
8) Refer my earlier post about "2 days" showing up in completed games... now there are still a number of them showing that, but it's not the same ones as before, and it's scattered across my list of completed games. I think it's showing the time from my actual online game against the same player -- for instance, I'm in a tournament with Lasitha. I finished one game against him/her recently; the second is now in progress. Both the Online chess and the completed game history are showing "2 days". However, there is one exception -- I'm also seeing "2 days" on julmag, whose account was closed for cheating about a week ago.
9) Analysis board for Online chess has no navigation? No forward/backward moves, or the "current" button? That's pretty difficult to use.
10) General: Kind of difficult to find the Settings menu... looks like you have to be *in* one of the sub-applications (Online; Computer; Tactics Trainer), and then bring up the menu. Maybe not a big deal, except...
11) It appears that the Settings menu is the only place to logout. I don't know anyone else with an account here, but I could imagine a family who play together here wanting to swap the iPhone around. Might want to consider putting that on the main menu... or a link to the Settings menu from there would probably do the trick nicely.
12) This is quite the nit, but the About screen under settings shows a different version number than the main menu, and a mobile@chess.com address -- not sure if that's the one you want or not.
13) Can't recreate this one... after I logged out, I hit Play as Guest, and it seems to have crashed the app. Worked on subsequent attempts.
14) I have on several occasions on various operations received an error message, "There is no active Internet connection." I have a flaky WiFi at home, and the iPhone switches between that and 3G, so this could entirely be my client, but I figured I'd mention it.
15) Playing vs. Computer, the clock at the top (5:00 each) does nothing.
16) Playing vs. Computer, I promoted a pawn and got, "Error *** - [RootViewController getNavBarByStyle:viewController:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x35cba0". My move has not taken place at this point, because I can try to promote again and get the same error.
17) Playing vs. Computer in a KRP (me) vs. K (comp) endgame, I repeated position numerous times (many more than 3), and it never claimed a draw. Perhaps this is intentional for that "Feeble" default strength, or whatever it was you called it.
18) Playing vs. Computer in same game, I deliberately stalemated the computer, and it crashed the app to iPhone desktop.
19) Analysis board for online does not highlight your pieces whenever you "pick them up" to move them. Hard to tell if you hit it.
20) Under Online chess, if I hit "New Game", it shows me a list of Open Challenges... but the scrollbar is really weird -- I can easily scroll down through 8 of them, and I can see 2 more, but they do the iPhone bounce-scroll thing... and I can't go any lower than that.
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