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I miss the alert too. I used to catch the alert using tasker and make a sound (with a minimum time gap to prevent it been too frequent). Now I have to check myself! 

Yes, we are working on addressing the Alert issue in the very next update.

Thanks for your patience! 

this is a great thread, I have a few:

1) there is no resign button in the live chess part of the app

2) While analysing a turn based game, the app sponteniously shows a ghost position and either crash or become non responsive ( ie I have to use the back button to go to the previous page and come back) or shows "Errors"

3) If the moves are clickable it would be awesome.

This glitch is not only with team games i now see; every gam i checkmate the next game i cannot move (settings automatic go to next game after submit move)

WiJi wrote:

Hi, a tiny mini glitch; when playing team match game 1 of 2 and win that 1st game, game 2 will automatically start, i cannot move, have to get out and start over. Really not big deal, but you want to know all ;-)

Reported! We'll look at it ASAP. Thanks.

Hmmmmmm..... i just now checkmate a game http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=53079386 and i CAN make a move in the next game. Dunno whats the difference with previous games that freeses after checkmate. No logic there.....

(Glad im not a programmer lol)

And another one i cant move in the next game. http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=53019188

Just dont follow this, can you?

Strange things happen in the app & I still love and preferplaying my games with it

Seem to have the alert now (90). Found a small problem though. After making a move in another game, it correctly shows one game outstanding. I resigned that game and it still showed it and allows me to resign again and again. Interestingly on my PC I see one game outstanding for the same player but it is the game that auto-started when I resigned. So the PC is correct while the app shows the game that I want to resign. I guess the app is caching the game and since I have one game outstanding for the same player keeps showing me the old one. Closing and starting the app didn't fix this but rebooting the phone did.

Samsung Galaxy Apollo android 2.1

Hi, thank you forthe update of the app! Seems to work propperly overall. Small issue concerningdraw i noticed; when offering a draw it forces you to make a move. After making move you go to next game. Zo fa so good, but when making move in next game i got back to previous game and have to make same move in 1st game again.

Well just a small inconvienance, happy with the update and thanks for all thehard work.

Ps. Starting alive game no notification shows up again, so my remark on that can be annulled.

Hello everyone.

Thank You all very much for Your posts and feedbacks. It is really helpfull!

Last update version 1.986 shows that notification issue is still problem for some users. 

Few questions:

1. What exact behaviour do You expect from notification feature? For what kinf of game - Live or Online?

2. What update time do You think is optimal? Or it should be flexible in the settings?

3. What app lifecycle do You have? I mean how do You close the app, what network settings do you have(sleep policy). Do You use task killers?

I only play on line and want a notification if I have an outstanding game. Ideally I'd like to control the frequency from the settings, but, provided there is a frequency of say 5 or 10 minutes I can adjust the frequency of my sound notifications myself on top of that. I use tasker to say if there hasn't been a sound in x minutes and there is a notification make a sound again. Of course it would be better if there was an optional notification sound at an optional frequency, within the app.

While I sometimes turn off the sound I'd prefer the app to start running in the background - and so have notifications - from phone switch on to switch off (I use airplane mode at night, so no notifications, but leave the phone on as an alarm). I don't use a task killer especially on this app.

Roger,

Hmm, I now notice after a couple of days, that the notification function is not constant; sometimes works perfect (especially when I just start), and sometimes it doesn't work (anymore). Can't find a propper reason for why and when it does or doesn't work constantly.

answers for the quenstion:

1. I'm mainly interested in the Online games feature

2. For me immediately when an opponent makes a move, but will settle for longer. Flexible in settings would be a good additionin my view

3. I go out using the 'home' icon, the back icon brings me to main screen app; mainly not where I want togo after coming back to list. I douse task killers, but I've never seen the chess app active in there and killing all tasks at once, doesn't seem to influance the app.

An addition to other probs. I've noticed that when somebosy wants to offer me a Draw, it showes in the list, but when going to the game, I connot accpet the draw and have to move. Shouldn't there be an (pop-up) option? or do I have todo something else? not clear.

Adding the vote-chess games in the online list would be a nice addition, but probably too complicated for now (maybe if you can't find any probl. in the app and are in dangour of getting unemployed, you could suggest it ;-) ).

Keep up the good work & thanks again

In old app when opponent wrote a message, it would highlight in the bar orange. doesnt do so anymore i found out. Could you repair that in nxt update please

Will install the test app, comments will be regarsing the tet app from now on

Hi I've noticd that every time I've won a live game either by resignation or by time-out, I cannot start en new live-game challenge. Have to get out the game and play turn based game before I can start a new one

WiJi,

Explain to me step by step what happens and what you see/do after that sign appears on your game board showing 'won by resignation' for example.

Also, which android are you using?

If its a tablet, are you using the app or browser?

Ok, for when my opponent resigns:i push home , push live chess, push rated, push create challenge , nothing happens.

The same is true wheb i resign, btw. I get back to the create challenge screen , click rated , click create and nothing happens.

Tapping again wont work

Asus transf prime 2 android 4. This whole thread is concerning app

I'm trying to make My move on chess online but I can't why?

I forgot to say that I'm trying to make my move with my androide cellphone.

Are You sure that it's your move now? 

The game itself block touches if it's not your move, except analysis mode. 

If you open a game and see that last move was made by opponent, so it's Your move now.

Can you also provide information about your android device model and application version?