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Lacrimas

Good day, Chess.com team!

Big thanks to you for this resource. I allready have Premium membership and happy with primary feature for me - Game Explorer.

And i have a request / question about game explorer. It is possible or can be realized in future to view not only masters and my games, but all games on chess.com or more? It wil be realy usefull feature for me.

artfizz

It is already possible to view ALL games on chess.com, but only for one player at a time.

Lacrimas

I understand. But what i dont understand - why only for one player?

azziralc

It is possible to view the games of chess.com members.

artfizz
Lacrimas wrote:

I understand. But what i dont understand - why only for one player?

I suspect there are three reasons:

1. it would take considerable effort (computer power & 'man' hours) to add ALL chess.com games into a database, INDEXED BY OPENING. Since new games are being created at a fantastic rate, this would need to be an ongoing commitment.

2. The MASTER DB should not diluted with (mainly) lower-strength games, so a separate DB would have to be created, maintained, archived.

3. Chess.com players are mostly interested in either their own games - or maybe those of a known strong player on chess.com.

Naakija

I cannot see Polar_Bear games via Explorer :

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=57291072

Can You ???

artfizz
LauriAikio wrote:

I cannot see Polar_Bear games via Explorer :

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=57291072

Can You ???

That game is still in progress. It won't show up in Game Explorer until it's finished.

Naakija

But I cannot see his previous games either !

kco

which browser are you using ?

Naakija

Google Chrome.

RetiFan

I encountered the same problem also, a finished game seems to be updated to the explorer at least after ten days or so. In those ten days game explorer doesn't recognize my games. I use Firefox. You sir, you may also experiencing the same issue maybe?

Naakija

I got his Black-games visible now, but games played with White pieces still stays hidden for me.     Undecided

kohai

The soonest that we will see live chess games in explorer is still months out, because the script is going to take a very long time to process all past games to catch up.
The devs plan on working on the blocking issue today or tomorrow, and then we can start processing games again.