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stevemcd87
Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Jan-02-26
<Updated October 28, 2024>

Hello,
I am a web developer contracted by Chessgames.com<CG> to help maintain the website.
<Feel free to report any bugs here.>

Lichess profile: https://lichess.org/@/stevemcd87

Current tasks:
- Update Endgame and Sacrifice Explorer
- Update Engine Server
- Stonehenge: After uploading games via <Upload a PGN file>, <Update Event Name> doesn't work. Also, it says <No Processed Submissions> even after the games are actually processed.

Bugs:
-<jnpop>,<z>: Purge voting queue Game Collection Voting && stevemcd87 chessforum

- <Stonehenge>: ...Take for example <last FIDE rating>. This should update automatically but it doesn't. chessgames.com chessforum .

- <kingscrusher>: ... on a big TV with Silk browser, the font size seems to be huge as if the TV is being treated like a big mobile phone. stevemcd87 chessforum

- <Messiah> Random Game Feature: Feature leads to bad links chessgames.com chessforum

Enhancements:
-<MissS>: update accepted tags for gameloader
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- <z>: update the auto-magic linking to Winter's articles, Add <Event/Site> searching, And adding round number to game listings,
chessgames.com chessforum && stevemcd87 chessforum

- <Stonehenge>: Remove annotation symbol for games that only have a comment at the end of the score Biographer Bistro
<Awaiting confirmation>: chessgames.com chessforum

- <YoungEd>: Ability to like comments chessgames.com chessforum

- <Chessical>: Update Advanced Search feature to only filter surnames stevemcd87 chessforum

- <Email requests>: Adding filters to the Refine Search section (ECO, Gametypes)

- <kingscrusher>: Extra filter for Advanced Search chessgames.com chessforum

- <Chess Bookie>: We will need to reach out to someone that can better explain this to me. I'd love to try to get this up and running, if there's still a "fan base".

- <Willber>: A page where someone can post a position he/she finds interesting and ask for opinions chessgames.com chessforum

>> Click here to see stevemcd87's game collections.

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   stevemcd87 has kibitzed 591 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Dec-22-25 stevemcd87 chessforum (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <Stonehenge: Why do some players have <most played openings> like this Magnus Carlsen and some have it like this Marion Heintze?> There's a script that creates a HTML page for the higher rated players, same script in <Player Page Update> section, which adds ...
 
   Dec-01-25 chessgames.com chessforum (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <stone free or die: Can I get an acknowledgement that the utf-8 pun mishandling has at least been noted by an admin?> Yes, it's been noted. We usually fix it manually when it happens. Sorry we didn't get to it yesterday
 
   Nov-24-25 Biographer Bistro (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <perf> I made an edit to Miro Reverby due to an email saying he doesn't want his player page associated with his handle on <CG>
 
   Nov-02-25 Q Gong vs O Husbands, 2014
 
stevemcd87: <Housed Husbands> R Aloma Vidal vs O Husbands, 2016 seemed like a reasonable candidate to the pun as well
 
   Nov-02-25 Y Li vs Xiong, 2025 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: Sorry <offramp>. There was a bug that would occasionally display Xiongjian's game. It has been fixed.
 
   Nov-01-25 FIDE World Cup (2025) (replies)
 
stevemcd87: Suggestions for Round 1 Live Games are welcomed. https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-...
 
   Dec-27-24 Susan Freeman chessforum (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <fredthebear: What is the reason for the Analysis function to remain disabled? Did an operator get fired? What is the prognosis?> Sorry for the delay. It seems we're in the home stretch now. stevemcd87 chessforum
 
   Nov-26-24 Ding Liren vs D Gukesh, 2024 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: Ding pushed his a-pawn into enemy territory before move 10 again. It seemed to have worked well for him yesterday.
 
   Sep-16-24 Rapport vs D Gukesh, 2024 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: Here's a similar game where white wins: N Abasov vs R Sadhwani, 2022
 
   Sep-12-24 V Stefansson vs D Gukesh, 2024 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: Lichess is down
 
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Nov-19-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Duplicates:

T Chin vs K McDonald, 2024

T Chin vs K McDonald, 2011

Nov-19-25  stone free or die: Ack! The Chin--McDonald was a PotD (11/19/25).

Why delete the 2011 game though (gid=2766027)?

One would image the earlier game (vs gid=2953060) would have the correct date and be the one to keep.

Nov-19-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Isn't Steve related to User: kev?

Or maybe I have the wrong person.

Nov-19-25  stone free or die: I think <steve> has a brother named <pete (85)>.

Whereas, I think <kev> has a brother <kenny>.

Provides a little more data only.

Nov-24-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <stevemcd87>, fair enough: I saw your post at the Bistro but never post on that page.
Nov-24-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <stevemcd87>, as to my reasons for never posting at the Bistro again, I should like to note that a fellow admin termed my work behind the scenes 'useless', and I do not propose to tolerate that, here or anywhere else. If he had issues with anything I have done, all in good faith, he was free to drop a line at my forum rather than resorting to such calumny.
Nov-27-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: The Wiki link here doesn't work:

Shyaam Nikhil P.

Nov-27-25  stone free or die: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shyaa....

This link (with "." appended) works.

.

Nov-30-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Another duplicate: Denker vs H Avram, 1940 and Denker vs H Avram, 1939. Here there's no familiar Nbd2/Nbd7 issue, so how does this game make it through? Just because the year is different?
Dec-02-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: < Searching for a round in a tournament (new feature) works fine. Except for <Round 1>. It also gives round 10, 11 etc.>

Thanks for fixing that. It would be nice if we could enter the date for a given round for all games at once, not one by one.

And sometimes the exact dates aren't known but the month is. It would be nice if we could enter the month for all games in one go as well.

Dec-03-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Olland vs G Kloosterboer, 1926 and Olland vs G Kloosterboer, 1926 can be merged.
Dec-08-25  Rdb: < stone free or die: Let the reader, lurking or otherwise, know the man behind the keyboard... <bippy>, aka <Big Pawn>/<George Wallace>/<The Integrity[sic]>/<Woodpile>/<OhioLiberalFan[sic]>- /etc. [ad nauseam] ...

Has a sordid history here on <CG>. He's

• actively tried to hack the site,
• was suspended for it (till <Missy> & <Suzz> recently brought him back), • actively tried to deny user's access, • flooded forums in DOS attacks,
• accused users of causing <Daniel>'s death • called for <CG> members' blood to run in the streets (literally).>

<the integrity><This is slander and that is against the law>

I do not know much of the laws of America, however , if it is illegal , then I want no part of it and request <Susan freeman> and othe admins to intervene , take action .

Thank you 🙏

Dec-08-25  Rdb: Either <stone free or die> did something illegal or <the integrity> did something illegal . Which is it ?

I request <Susan freeman> and admins to tell us . Thank you 🙏

.

Dec-09-25  Rdb: I am a law abiding citizen and i can not abide anything illegal . I request all the law abiding citizens who visit this site to intervene and ask <Susan freeman> and other admins to stop illegal activities on this cite .

Either <stone free or die> did something illegal or <the integrity> did something illegal . Whichever of the two perpetrated illegal act , should be held accountable - <Susan freeman> and other admins should ensure that or they would also be legally liable under american law , i think.

Thank you 🙏

Dec-12-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Can't change the result to <no result>:

J Caldas Vianna vs Teichmann, 1906

Dec-12-25  stone free or die: <rdb> leave me out of your crusades (or rhetorical devices) please.

You're off the rails, as they say.

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Dec-13-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: When games are submitted with incomplete date data, i.e. [Date "1875.??.??"] or [Date "1875.10.??"] they tend to get added to the system without the partial date information, i.e. they show up as [0000].[?].[?] in the ADMINISTRATIVE GAME EDITOR, which then needs to be updated manually.

I've noticed if I submit the date as [Date "1875.00.00"] it then imports fine and shows up as [1875].[?].[?] in the ADMINISTRATIVE GAME EDITOR. This solves that partial date data getting lost, but it then introduces non-compliant data into the PGN's date-tag and I then have to edit the PGN.

I suspect the SQL Insert is rejecting the PGN date tag due to the use of "?"; so instead of rejecting the tag, can you regex out the question marks and replace them with 0s before the insert without altering the PGN data itself?

Dec-13-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: I think that gets updated automatically at .33 minutes every hour.

But not in every case, I believe. Maybe not when something else is wrong, I forgot.

Dec-14-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: I uploaded some Bird games and waited about an hour (or whatever length of time that episode of House of the Dragon ran), no update to the date occurred, so I fixed them manually.

The only other thing possibly wrong was the EventDate tag also containing partial information.

Dec-17-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <When games are submitted with incomplete date data, i.e. [Date "1875.??.??"] or [Date "1875.10.??"] they tend to get added to the system without the partial date information, i.e. they show up as [0000].[?].[?] in the ADMINISTRATIVE GAME EDITOR, which then needs to be updated manually.>

Do they show up on the site as dated 1875 or 0000?

Dec-17-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: <Do they show up on the site as dated 1875 or 0000?>

It appears to be just the meta-data date. I just uploaded:

E Alberoni vs Mackenzie, 1876

The game header shows the correct year, but the meta-data date should be given as 1876.05.?? in the admin. game editor tool, but it shows up as 0000.??.??.

I'm not sure what happens to the date when some other field is now altered and then that record is submitted for update (which is why I always manually correct the date in the admin. game editor tool).

Dec-22-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <Stonehenge: Why do some players have <most played openings> like this Magnus Carlsen and some have it like this Marion Heintze?>

There's a script that creates a HTML page for the higher rated players, same script in <Player Page Update> section, which adds extra sections and pretties the Most Played Openings. I believe the player needs to be over 2300's for the script to run.

<stone free or die: Consider this player: Peter Niemann He's another example of a collapsed opening summary. Only 5 games in the <"Most Played"> vs. 17 games in the db.>
Single-occurrence openings are not counted

<Z:...Magnus Carlsen>
It seems accurate. The script limits itself to the top 6 opening families.

<Stonehenge: Updated the ECO to B73 in the PGN here F Bohatirchuk vs Botvinnik, 1933 but I also need to update it in the Game Editor, and that doesn't work.>

ECO and DATE should be updated with the ADMINISTRATIVE GAME EDITOR for it to update the database and PGN at once.

<MissScarlett: Another duplicate: Denker vs H Avram, 1940 and Denker vs H Avram, 1939. Here there's no familiar Nbd2/Nbd7 issue, so how does this game make it through? Just because the year is different?>

Yes, it only checks for duplicates for the year

<jnpope: When games are submitted with incomplete date data...>

As mentioned, incomplete dates should get fixed on the 33rd minute of every hour. Please provide a link to the game if it doesn't get fixed automatically for us to investigate further.

<Bulk Update> feature is complete. Let me know if you run into any issues.
There is now a link to the tournament page(in the new game edit feature) for games that don't have a link in the game's header(Example A Abreu Delgado vs W Arencibia Rodriguez, 2000 CUB-ch (2000)).

Dec-23-25  stone free or die: <steve> thanks for the reply (from us all I would assume).

But doing such a list would be aided with links back to the old posts (I think), in addition to your helpful snippet refs.

Just right-click on the date in the old post to copy the "perma-link" to be pasted in.

Like this: stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #1643) .

Dec-24-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <There's a script that creates a HTML page for the higher rated players, same script in <Player Page Update> section, which adds extra sections and pretties the Most Played Openings. I believe the player needs to be over 2300's for the script to run.>

Doesn't work here, also there's white space in front of <recent games>: Valentina Kozlovskaya.

Dec-31-25
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: From a correction slip:

<It looks like the PGN for this game was previously incorrect and has since been corrected, with Black's 6th move as cxd4 instead of dxc4, but it still shows wrong in the opening explorer.>

Lutikov vs E Ermenkov, 1976.

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