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Board size problem since September 2018

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Mihai1921
Mihai1921
Oct 9, 2018
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Since the end of September 2018 I have the following problem when playing live in chess.com:I cannot have simultaneously a good chess board size and all other relevant information (username,rating and most importantly the clock of me and of my opponent).  I have to play with a smaller board, which is not confortably to play with or I have a good board size, but then I don’t see the clock, which is ennoying (if you play blitz, seeing permanently the clock is very important). A assume some change was made on chess.com server in September.

 

Practically I can choose from the following options: (I attached print screens)

  1. In normal mode, to have all relevant information (username, rating and the clock of me and of my opponent), but with a smaller board (photo 1); In Google Chrome the zoom is 200%. For me personally, this size is pretty small.

Photo 1-smaller board with all information

2. In normal mode, to have a good board size, but without all relevant informations (name,rating and the clock of me and of my opponent), (photo 2). In Google Chrome the zoom is 250%.

Photo 2-big board with no information

3. In focus mode, to see only the clock, but without username and rating with a smaller board (photo 3)

Photo 3-focus mode with small board and all information

4. In focus mode, if I zoom in, I can get a bigger board, but I see only the upper part of the board, without the possibility to scroll the page down in order to see the whole board (photo 4). It's impossible to play like this.

Photo 4-focus mode with big board but only a part of the board is visible

 

In the old chess.com for example, it was possible to have a good board size and all information in the same time (photo 5).

Photo 5-old chess.com (big board with all information)

Before September 2018, I could get the board almost as big as in the old chess.com and it was ok. In all cases, in Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, in order to get a bigger board I enter the page in fullscreen mode (with F11). I use Windows 7. In Google Chrome I cleared the cache, but this didn’t help.

 

I see some possible solutions:

  • Make the focus mode to work properly. If you zoom in, it should increase the board size till a good size, so that I can see the whole board and not only a part of the board.
  • In normal mode, somehow to display the username, rating and clock to the right of the board, and not above and below to the board and to have the board as big as it is in photo 2.
  • To connect to chess.com with a software like Fritz, where you can customize better the board size and the appearence.

 

But how to solve this?