I know exactly what's going on.

It came to our attention that a good number of PGN games were being skipped because of browser-controlled word wrapping.

You see, web text areas can have a tag set which makes them wrap text so that it's not all on one line. Usually this feature is "on" by default. However, some browsers have different rules about when and what to break.

One browser in particular had the very nasty habit of breaking O-O into O- on one line, and an extra O on the next. Likewise, it turned 1/2-1/2 into two different words. This was causing no ends of problems. Some uploaders inevitably had 1-2% of their games rejected without human intervention, even though they did nothing wrong themselves.

So the quick-and-dirty solution was simply to turn word wrap off. And it seems like the right solution: we are just accepting exactly the text you provided and not modifying it one bit.

<Stonehenge> I can see how it's a nuisance, but after all, you are the one giving us text lines that are a mile long.

Perhaps a more robust approach would be to allow the browsers to potentially mangle the PGN and then have the software reconstruct it, looking out specifically for things like broken O-O, O-O-O, and 1/2-1/2.

1. I can't see the dates or avatars of posts/posters.

2. The chessboard has an annoying small shift as I click through the games.

3. Scrolling up and down the game page is sticky.

4. There are no features between the game moves and the kibitzing area.

Are these common problems?

All of those issues are known to us except for #2, <2. The chessboard has an annoying small shift as I click through the games.> You mean to say when you go forward or backward a move, the entire board wiggles a little bit? I've not seen that. It sounds dreadful. May I ask, what iPhone model do you use?

The lack of dates and other links is intentional. We are trying to keep the page and simple and compact as possible.

The problem is that pgn4web has "hot squares" so when you put your finger on the board in an attempt to scroll, instead it triggers the hot-key.

After some practice I got good at scrolling by touching the area above or below the board.

<You mean to say when you go forward or backward a move, the entire board wiggles a little bit?>

How about a small box on each players' page that says, <"Find games of this player versus:".>?

Anyway, I know you guys have <Opening> Explorer, <Sacrifice> Explorer, etc. Would it be possible to have a <Checkmate> Explorer? I know this would probably take a long time to put together, but I'm hoping it can be achieved in the future.

Possible "categorizations" could include "checkmate with a bishop", "checkmate with a rook", etc.

What we'd probably do instead is write software to scan the database for such occurrences and then produce a list. Of course we'd be happy to share the list with you for purposes of your collections.

We've already done things like that to produce "themed puzzle weeks", for example there's a program somewhere that looks for games with more than two queens, and again for stalemates. That helped us assemble "stalemate week", and "polyamorous week".

Search for mates with specific pieces sounds pretty easy: just look for the # at the end of the score and see what piece was moved. Although that might run into wrinkles with discovered checkmates. (If I move my bishop to reveal a rook checkmate, did I checkmate you with a bishop or a rook? I guess it depends on how you look at it.)