If you're looking for your "live" games, forget about it. Your correspondence games ("online" in Erikspeak) should be listed though. We used to have both until a server farm change maybe a year ago. Will they be back? Who knows?
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Seems to be affecting both live and correspondence games. The three games that are listed are correspondance games but I've got dozens of other correspondence games that are missing. All my live games are missing, but I don't particularly care about those - I'm too embarassed to revisit the moves I make under pressure!
It was one of the top-class features of the site. Broken for aeons now since the decision to include/amalgamate "live chess" games.
Many members cannot search their archive despite that being touted as "site-feature" and masters database is woefully out of date.
Thanks for the replies. That's irritating.
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It used to keep mine updated. In the last 2 weeks my correspondance games have not been updating. I agree. Opening explorer for my own games is one of the things I like the most about the site.
I decided to renew my membership just because I saw 10 live games were included in game explorer.. now I realized that it was just a tricky move from chess.com to let me believe they are loading games...
When its not working, I think it should be removed from the site. Because chess.com can't pretend that it is a function that makes this site something to pay money for.
At least make clear to potential paying costumors that it is not working. At least!
I reported the bug over two years ago and then created this thread when it was not getting handled
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/game-explorer-still-not-working
I am just posting here to reiterate the fact that the game explorer still displays nothing but a small amount of our total games. This is something that I really care about as a member, and I suspect I am not alone.
You're certainly not alone, there have been numerous Threads pointing out this glaring omission on Chess.com's part.
This is the msot recent thread on it that I could find from searching.
I appreciate the service, and am not totally mollified that it isn't updated immediately, but I am merely curious for some details like....
- Should I expect my game explorer of my games to be updated in a sort of trickle, over time?
- Will there be some huge push to fix this issue?
Just curious and I would love to see some staff replies.
Well some day it'll be fixed I hope
I am happy to report that my live games have loaded. Exactly when, I am not sure, but there are over 5,000 games. It is a great tool.
I am able to check some other player's games but not all. While it was broken for the last several years, they fell millions of games behind. I am not sure how far they are along in the catching up process.
Was the star feature of chess.com without a doubt. Would be pleased to see it running properly again and including current master games.
I have great news - I have found a way. Trying every venue where it made sense, I eventually received one response -
"Probably what you are seeing is that we do not automatically load all of the Live Chess games into explorer for all players. This would be billions of games, and most people do not use this feature extensively. There is a way to get on the list so that your games are available: visit the explorer page in v3. First, click the "Try the new Chess.com" link at the bottom of this page, and then go to "Explorer" under the "Learn" menu. When you do, you won't see your games right away, but they should all be ready within a few minutes and each game that you finish after that should be added within an hour or two of the game finishing."
And I did do that.
And it worked exactly as described!
nope, incorrect, notmtwain .
I'm not sure what is going on with explorerer. But in my games archive there are 511 games. And I have played 17855 games. Please explain that.
Maybe if you played less than 511 games things are different. I don't know.
Also games of yesterday are not there. If I follow the same moves of one of these games, i can't find them.
Under construction? No, never working.
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nope, incorrect, notmtwain .
I'm not sure what is going on with explorerer. But in my games archive there are 511 games. And I have played 17855 games. Please explain that.
Maybe if you played less than 511 games things are different. I don't know.
Also games of yesterday are not there. If I follow the same moves of one of these games, i can't find them.
Under construction? No, never working.
Did you go in using V3? Did you go back in a second time a few minutes later?
/ I just checked my own. I have played 5,610 blitz games and there are 2,768 of my games showing in Game Explorer as white, pretty close to 50%. (I didn't add up the black.)
V3? You version 3? Explorer version 10 is not working.
Or Opera Version 33.
Or chrome version 46.
same number of games. and games of yesterday are not added. Believe me. I checked it many times.
If it's working for you then there must be something different in settings inside.
There must be someone with the answer.
But chess.com-'helpdesk' is quiet. Very Quiet.....
I've just come across the Game Explorer and have been trying to look at "My Games". I only seem to have 3 games listed depite having selected the correct options. I've played just over 100 games but the only games listed in the explorer are the first three I completed. Am I doing something stupid, is there a delay between the games being completed and them going into the explorer or is it something else?