New Features & Fixes - May 3 2009

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Avatar of Jon_MaL

Nice features. Thanks to you Eric and also for all the staff of chess.com

Avatar of RomanaChisu

Great stuff, specially video lesson and 3D pieces Smile...

I have 2 suggestion to help team admins. Maybe ... in the future ... 

I should like to see what is the contribution of each member in my team. At present, this thing is very difficult, because many people are members in more teams. 

So, if is possibly, please add in Game Archive:

1. Show Team Match Games, sort by... Team, no just by Date or Highest rating.

2. Show Team Match Games, sort by... Team - Show timeouts.

Thank you ... 

Avatar of piotr

A little teaser below :)

 

Avatar of broze

I LOVE the 3D, I have always wondered why this was not available and in my opinion it will actually atract people to the site, great job!

Avatar of pwkip

why did you make the yellow on the square my oponent placed his last piece on so ugly?

 

::edit::

Change my board colors from green to blue. it looks nicer now

Avatar of Glaedr

i think there should be an option to switch off peice animation

Avatar of Visceral

Hate to seem rude but....

 

HOW ABOUT REMOVING THE DISCONNECTS !!!!!!!!

Avatar of Spiffe

I thought the iPhone app was going to be part of this bundle?  Was really looking forward to that.

Avatar of Baseballfan
Visceral wrote:

Hate to seem rude but....

 

HOW ABOUT REMOVING THE DISCONNECTS !!!!!!!!


As has been said many many times... we're working on that. It will be part of a separate release of a completely new version of Live Chess. Please be patient, we're working on it.

Avatar of mjc393

Yay!! makes the diamond membership really worth it now!  Love the videos, great job!

Avatar of mwaltenburg

I love this site! I really like the changes that have been made. Keep up the great work guys. You freaking rock!

Avatar of spoiler1

Thanks chess.com, and staff!

Avatar of timmygadget

The no vacation for tournaments is excellent, I run a team and my members will be happy about that big time

Avatar of Flamma_Aquila

I like to watch chess videos on my ipod. I'll have to try to download them when I get home. (this way, I can watch them out and about, and at work without the IT police catching me!)

Avatar of undefined

Video's are brilliant ... I can think of another site that's gonna be peeeeved :P ... I've already dropped my membership there :).

 

Nice idea getting rid of the FEN and PGN ... that'll make it harder for cheaters.

And the 2.5D boards are great... the angle is a touch higher than I like to sit at in a tournament but it's still great.  Hopefully it'll improve my visualization (even if it does hurt my rating!)

Avatar of Ziryab
ih8sens wrote:

Nice idea getting rid of the FEN and PGN ... that'll make it harder for cheaters.


It also makes it harder for honest database users.

Avatar of rgrizzard

ack!

I have just noticed that in my themed games (start from a specific opening position), the moves have been renumbered so that the first move played in the games is numbered "1," not whatever it should be.  This messes up my extensive notes on variations, etc., plus I'm worried it will show up like that in the pgn...??  Even worse, if the beginning position is black to move, black's moves show up on the left column and white's on the right!!

Care to explain?

Avatar of HiggsBoson
erik wrote:

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- Added new 3D pieces (or 2.5D? who knows...) and textured boards


Love the 3D! Perhaps a slightly trapezoidal board would help with the appearance?

 

Thanks for continuing to improve the site! I'll be taking advantage of the videos, for sure.

Avatar of Baseballfan
rgrizzard wrote:

ack!

I have just noticed that in my themed games (start from a specific opening position), the moves have been renumbered so that the first move played in the games is numbered "1," not whatever it should be.  This messes up my extensive notes on variations, etc., plus I'm worried it will show up like that in the pgn...??  Even worse, if the beginning position is black to move, black's moves show up on the left column and white's on the right!!

Care to explain?


the PGN format allows for an alternative starting position by inserting a FEN string in the PGN notation. PGN games from here have always included this, and while I don't have personal experience with them yet, I can't see why they would have been changed.

Avatar of TheGrobe

I'd convinced myself that the 3D peices would be virtually unusable, but you guys have done a really nice job on them.  I may actually give them a go.

Off to try out the new mobile features....