New Features & Fixes - Mar 12 2009

Good update today! Every one of these below came from Chess.com member suggestions!

- Analysis Board: We have reverted the analysis board to use the normal chess rules by default. If you want to have an open analysis board (with no legality checking), there is a check-box to the right of the board where you have that option.

- Group Alerts: You can now decide about group alerts individually for all groups you are a member of. (If you want to make global changes that affect all of your groups because you are a member of SOO many... maybe you should rethink how many groups you are in :D)

- New Board Sizes: We have added new board sizes that are inbetween the old sizes, so now you can have the size that is juuuuuuuust right.

- Tournament Group Invite: Now when you create a tournament, you can invite everyone from a specific group (you must be the admin of that group). This makes it easier to run tournaments with friends/group members!

- Tournament Finish: We now show what place you finished in on all tournaments on your Completed Tournaments page.

- Vote Chess Timeout: Winning a Vote Chess game with 1-2 moves based on timeout no longer awards points.

- PGN [Termination]: We added [Termination "playername won by checkmate"] to pgns in downloads (matters to some of you who use chess database and game management software)

- Tactics Trainer Comments: We added in a step to submitting tactics trainer comments as having the dialog box immediately on the results page was causing JavaScript errors. We're hoping this fixes issues some users were having!

We also fixed a few typos and small bugs (as usual). 

Thanks for your support and suggestions!

Great stuff!

I like that tournament group invite feature. 

It seems that the "Analysis board" has reverted back to rule based moves.   i.e.,  I can't move my king into check anymore and I can't relocate pieces.

Thank you no more WinTD to keep the tournaments running!!

quick checkup- vote chess wins on timeout before this update won't be recalled right?..its a good call to make the vote chess games run longer

Woah! Thanks for heeding those suggestions. More power to Chess.com!

I was just using the newly-updated analysis board in some of my games about a minute ago. It really helps! Thank you very much.

Excellent, excellent, excellent. Keep up the good work man!

Oh, I see the option to "Enforce Legal Moves" on the Analysis board.  Excellent then, I can turn that off.  Does anybody know yet if I can turn that off for all of my Analysis boards?

as usual, the staff listened and reacted.  good work.

I'm with Snoopy69.  I'd like an option in my settings for the default Analysis Board option to NOT enforce legal moves.

Thanks for making the legal moves setting the default for the analysis board, that had been driving me crazy lately.  Not sure why anyone would want to see the illegal moves... we are all here to play chess aren't we. ?

"- Vote Chess Timeout: Winning a Vote Chess game with 1-2 moves based on timeout no longer awards points."

Awesome, is that retroactivate?

Thanks as always Eric, you make me feel so listened to.

Checking the Vote leaderboards, I guess that's a negative (unless you plan to change it later!)

To Dexter_Morgan:  I learn better when I fail so using an analysis board that only allows correct moves isn't the best analysis board for me.  It is better for me to use a board that doesn't constrain my moves, or warn me when I leave my king in check.

The Tourny group invite is a massive help, THANKS!

Yeah, that's very cool.  I plan to have a big tourney for my team once we hit 100 members.

- Vote Chess Timeout: Winning a Vote Chess game with 1-2 moves based on timeout no longer awards points.

Veeeery cool! I hope more things will be changed with regards to Vote Chess - I keep bothering asking for changes in the Vote Chess points reward system, soon or later someone will listen... 

all fix are useful.