I still got 125 points, and the par was 111, so i definately want to use that feature more often..

There are a few pages where it cannot appear because they are normal HTML pages. The simplest example is the Chessgames Help page, if you look at the URL it's simply "chesshelp.html" and therefore it cannot customize itself for each person's needs. Our ChessGames.com Statistics Page pages is another example.

I won't say there is *nothing* that we can do about this: if it was very important we could make those pages script-based so they can customize themselves, but since these pages are rather peripheral we never regarded it as a big problem.

However I'm confused at why you would say <players> and <tournaments> lack the menus -- those pages most certainly should have enhanced menus if you have them turned on, and a quick check shows that I see my enhanced menu on those pages.

I hate to tell people "use a different browser" but clearly something is very wrong and probably what we will learn in the end is that certain browsers have a problem with GTM as it currently stands. So if you really want to play GTM rather than spend 5 hours per game I would advise you use Firefox, Chrome, Opera, etc.

We never heard anything about this until just a week ago and since that time three people reported basically the same problem. That could be a coincidence or it could be that a change to MSIE came with a recent windows update.

One member said that it even happens at the outset of a game before you are even guessing moves, when the only thing you have to do is click on the big colorful arrow. In their words <The arrow works about 70% of the time, the other 30% of the time I get error page (Bad game request).> Of course they aren't lying, but at the same time the claim sounds absolutely absurd. A web form is not a random number generator.

Try as we may, we cannot replicate the error. Until we can get one of our machines to produce the error it's very unlikely that we will be able to fix it.

There are a few ways you can make your move in GTM. Different people have different habits. Tell me exactly what mouse/keyboard strokes you use to enter a move.

For example suppose your move is 4.Nf3. Do you:

1. Click on g1, then click on f3?

2. Type "Nf3" in the move box and press enter?

3. Type "g1f3" in the move box and press enter?

4. Type "Nf3" in the move box and then press the button that reads "GUESS THE MOVE"?

5. Type "g1f3" in the move box and then press the button that reads "GUESS THE MOVE"?

It could be that the problem is triggered by one of these specific move entry methods, which could explain why some people get the problem and others don't.

I doubt it's a browser issue but it's good you checked.

I just signed in under your account (we admins can do that you know) and from my point of view everything worked great. I saw your customized menu on a variety of pages: the homepage, the player of the day (Alan Fraser Truscott), and some tournaments I clicked on.

Here's the <player> page I meant: Player Directory

and the <tournament> page: New Games Page

I understand now. The pages that you are referring to fit into the same category as the help page: they are just plain HTML pages that necessarily look the same to everybody.

Anyhow Mark I do believe there is some kind of bug that you are experiencing, but not necessarily a bug in our software at all. You see, we can't replicate the error through *normal* use of GTM, but we know how to replicate it. It's easy, we just click here

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/quiz

Im not conplaining either, just letting you know.. And i didn't mean to say you had a software bug, i was just saying what Annie said/Insuated.. That on GTM it can jump back into book moves, even after you've already made OOB moves... Oh god, I'm turning into AJ lol ;)