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willingtoplay

Somebody tell me how do I resign a game I don't want to finish. With the new chess.com, I tried to resign but got an alert saying I intentionally delayed the game.

Martin_Stahl
willingtoplay wrote:

Somebody tell me how do I resign a game I don't want to finish. With the new chess.com, I tried to resign but got an alert saying I intentionally delayed the game.

 

You resign with the flag icon 

Fantastory

Chessmentor
Missing back move button -

and also there could be back button from the last move in a lesson.

Moreover the big lessons database seem no longer accessible

Dodger111

I hate it.  

lofina_eidel_ismail

as expected, took a while to figure-out the interface, 

not too bad 

Flightplan2014

Two comments:

 

1. In live chess, I can't change, or can't seem to find where to change the rating range of players when I seek a game. It is stuck on -25 when I'm on the new chess.com and as a result, I can't get a game.

 

2. On the tactics trainer, I can't figure out how to get the bar at the bottom to come up that tells me how much time I have left.

 

If someone could let me know how to do those two things, that would be great.

floppsy

1. Bring back trophies on player mouseover, that was one of very few customization options. A little thing, but kinda important. I don't need to really see when someone joined the site as it currently has on mouseover. 

 

2. Font sizes in chat window in live chess I find incredibly small. 

 

3. Alert bug when checking Daily games - the alerts don't clear and a red error bar comes up when you clear the alerts after checking the game. 

 

Love the new Live chess look otherwise!

KnightDimension
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Martin_Stahl
Flightplan2014 wrote:

Two comments:

 

1. In live chess, I can't change, or can't seem to find where to change the rating range of players when I seek a game. It is stuck on -25 when I'm on the new chess.com and as a result, I can't get a game.

 

2. On the tactics trainer, I can't figure out how to get the bar at the bottom to come up that tells me how much time I have left.

 

If someone could let me know how to do those two things, that would be great.

 

 

1. Put in a ticket. At some point that option was removed and I assume it is a bug at this point. At the very least maybe they can reset the range for you.

 

https://support.chess.com/customer/portal/emails/new

 

 

2.  When you are on the tactics page click the gear icon  and toggle the timer setting. 

SirBryant86

This new chess.com update is awesome! especially with the new chess playing variants, including LIVE 960! Great job Team!

actuary1695814

Two comments on Tactics Trainer:

1) The old one told you which pieces you were playing (white or black).  As far as I can tell, this one does not.

2) In the comments section, you are now showing the most recent comments first...that's fine except I usually like to read the oldest first & work my way back...the problem there is that the page numbers ("< Previous 1 2 3 4 Next >") are always on the bottom & not also on the top, so after reading from the bottom to the top I need to scroll all the way down to the bottom again just to turn the page.

 

One question, too, while I'm at it...did the (tactics) rating algorithm change?  Under the old site I was usually in the 1400-1500 range.  All of a sudden I've jumped to the 1600s.

MarkProb

Agree with Queening_Pawn quote # 12. Not happy. Not allowed to post in New Forum Topic at basic membership level anymore. Tactic Training now has a Time Bar that I find very distracting. Have to cover it up with a piece of paper which is also distracting. Cannot post in New Forum Topic to see if anyone has a solution. IS ANY BODY OUT THERE ???   Hmmmm. Does anyone know a solution to this issue? Also, could not believe it when I tried the Daily Puzzle, pushed the solution button & it came at me at least 100 M.P.H. Couldn't even see it! Just a blurr. Allow me to keep old version. Am using Chess.com less now. Have to keep pushing that button to get back to old version. New version may be good for some, but not this one. A thought worth remembering... Just because someone has more money & can afford top membership doesn't mean they are smarter or better at chess or... as a person. I thought this chess site was set up & ran by people who put chess 1st. 

Angevine

Hello,
I think this version is less friendly and much slower to load pages ... We'll have to get used to and I hope it will not push players ... Hmmm ...
The old version (which is fine) she will soon disappear?
Cordially.

Martin_Stahl

The site doesn't have a formal timeline released but my guess is v3 will be the default by the end of Summer and v2 will be gone by the end of the year.

Angevine

Ok Martin_Stahl, thank you for answer and congratulations for your work.

Angevine

What percentage of players are using the new version ? ...

SirBryant86

...don't know, but pretty sure that eventually everyone will get on board...

ChessterDrawyers

how do I remove the clock info from my game downloads?

Martin_Stahl

You can download from v2 instead but I don't think there is currently a way to filter them out in advance on v3. I've been just stripping them out when I get them in my DB.

Urmm

Don't know if it's just me but I am having to constantly close/reload the new version in my browser as it either just freezes or crashes.