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stevemcd87
Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Oct-23-25
<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,
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- <Stonehenge>: Remove annotation symbol for games that only have a comment at the end of the score Biographer Bistro
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- <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

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   stevemcd87 has kibitzed 568 times to chessgames   [more...]
   Oct-12-25 stevemcd87 chessforum (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <Chess.com> seems to have an API that may work for us( https://www.chess.com/news/view/pub... ). It'll take some time to implement but can be extremely useful for future events if it works. I'll keep you posted.
 
   Oct-11-25 chessgames.com chessforum (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <Tab> You can now edit the Elos on the game page. Let us know if you run into any issue. <z> Thanks for the confirmation
 
   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
 
   Apr-22-24 R Shcherbakov vs V Isupov, 1990 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: White to play 48. ? [DIAGRAM] My original thought: 48. Qh7+ Rg7 49. dxe6+ Kf8 50. Qh8+ Rg8 51. Qxf6+ Ke8 52. Rd8# Another variation if 49... Kxe6 instead of 49... Kf8: 48. Qh7+ Rg7 49. dxe6+ Kxe6 50. Qxg7 g4 51. Qd7+ Ke5 52. Qd6+ Kf5 53. Rd5+ Kg6 54. Rg5+ Kf7 55. Qd5+ Ke8 56.
 
   Apr-20-24 Nepomniachtchi vs Nakamura, 2024 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <whiteshark: What about the other boards?> Praggnanandhaa vs Caruana?
 
   Apr-17-24 D Gukesh vs Caruana, 2024 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: At move 28, Gukesh has about 1 minute per move to make it to time control. Can he make it without any mistakes? [DIAGRAM]
 
   Apr-15-24 Nakamura vs N Abasov, 2024 (replies)
 
stevemcd87: At move 29, I'm somewhat surprised to see SF prefers for white to exchange rooks rather than Bh7 to get a rook for a bishop. [DIAGRAM]
 
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Feb-19-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Steve> Can you force it in, please:

[Event "Opera Euro Rapid"]
[Site "chess24.com INT"]
[Date "2021.02.12"]
[Round "2.22"]
[White "So, Wesley"]
[Black "Radjabov, Teimour"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2770"]
[BlackElo "2765"]
[EventDate "2021.02.09"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 Nbd7 7. a3 c5 8. cxd5 Nxd5 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. dxc5 Nxc5 11. Be5 Bf5 12. Be2 Bf6 13. Bxf6 Qxf6 14. Qd4 Qd6 15. Rd1 Rfd8 16. Qd2 Qf6 17. Qd4 Qd6 18. Qd2 Qf6 19. Qd4 Qd6 1/2-1/2

Feb-22-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Hello <Tab>, sorry for the delayed response.
That game has been added.
Thanks!
Feb-23-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Steve> Thanks. It was another GM draw.

Btw I think you can safely remove the game-centered code saying that these "duplicates" should not be added!

Feb-24-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: I've noticed that since [PlyCount] became automated when uploading a game (one that didn't need to be manually entered), it always rounds the number up. For instance, if a game has 49 ply, it will become 50. This isn't a huge problem because it will correctly show as a 25 move game, but surely this glitch can be corrected.
Feb-26-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: I submitted a game, the upload was processed successfully but the game didn't show up. Only then did I notice that the result tag wasn't filled in (left as <*>). However subsequent attempts to reload the corrected game have been unsuccessful. I assume this is because the system recognises the game and is rejecting duplicates, so it's now effectively being held in limbo.

The game is Blackburne - Beningfield.

Feb-26-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Hello <MissS>,
The game has been added. Blackburne vs G Beningfield, 1880
Feb-26-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <MissS>, It seems you may have forgotten to "Update Submissions" before trying to process.
It shows your last few attempts were empty.
I'll try to add some sort of alert for the user when possible.
Feb-28-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <Merging games is to transfer all the kibitzing an collections from the bad game to the good game.>

Can you merge an odds game (minus a piece) with a standard one?

Also, what's happened with allowing null moves?

Mar-03-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Where is everybody!? This place is like a ghost town. #tumbleweedcentral

There's a Tal-Seltzer game stuck in the pipes. Please unbock.

Mar-03-21  Z truth 000000011: <Where is everybody!?>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX_...

Mar-03-21  Z truth 000000011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5z...
Mar-03-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: I just realised the problem: Tal-Seltzer was already in the DB. It's a shame Tal didn't win the game, because I could have used <Tal KO Seltzer>.
Mar-03-21  Z truth 000000011: Stuck in the pipes? Might I suggest:

https://www.google.com/search?sa=G&...

Mar-05-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Someone added >100 games to the European Championship (2000), and then I added >100 more games to it. Ending up with 329 games, hopefully without duplicates!

Evgeni Ellinovich Sveshnikov ended 32nd (with 6,5/11) but I read somewhere he did not want to publish his games. His games are indeed missing (I don't know yet who he played against, except a draw vs Sax).

Standings table as default, please?

Mar-05-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <Can you merge an odds game (minus a piece) with a standard one?>
We can merge any game with any other game(use with caution), the PGN from the good gid will be used.

<Also, what's happened with allowing null moves?>
[bad chessgames.com link]
Currently, the game page breaks for games without a valid eco, I will see how we can work around that(I wasn't able to figure out a "quick fix").
Once we get the eco matter sorted, we will only be able to use pgn4web to view the games with null moves; both, Olga and Aria(Olga2), considers them invalid pgn.
I'll reach out to <Olga Viewer> to see what he thinks about the matter.

<Standings table as default, please?>
I'm trying to avoid changing default settings to prevent issues with automated processes I may not be aware of.
I'll try to add a feature for us to have the ability to add a table, some time next week.

Mar-05-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Ok... in case you don't know, it's possible to click on the Pocal symbol to switch between standings table and list of players. In general, swisses and round robins should have standings table, and ko's and team events should have list of players.

The standings tables can be manipulated by an editor (e. g. instead of correcting wrong game results), but I've never done that, at least not knowingly, except for adding points for walk-overs or missing games.

Mar-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: It would be nice if we could update the site/location in the tournament editor.
Mar-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: And EventDate perhaps. For example the games of European Championship (2001) have EventDate 2001.06.05, should be 2001.06.01.
Mar-09-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: And tid merging would be nice.

And beer and pizza :)

Mar-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: I will begin working on the ability to update site/location and EventDate for the tournament editor, I'll have this up for you by tomorrow.
After, I'll start on the tournament merging feature, this task should be completed by this weekend.
I'll keep you up-to-date on progress.
Thanks for your patience.
Mar-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <Stone>, can you please give me an example of what you would like to update for testing.
From what I understand, you would like to be able to update the Site tag to every PGN in a given tournament, let me know if I misunderstood.

<Tab>, I noticed the date for European Championship (2001) is 2001.06.01 but looking at the games` pgn it shows <[EventDate "2001.06.05"]> I'm assuming you would like to be able to update all EventDate tags for any given tournament.
Let me know if I misunderstood.

Mar-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Steve> Yes, Round 1 was 1 June and I'd like to change to <[EventDate "2001.06.01"]> for all the games.

Assuming that "EventDate" is the date of the first round, but I'm only 90% sure of that! :)

Mar-11-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: On merging tids: some of the tids have wrong game dates (rarely wrong round number), so that one may have to click through all the games. Example: EU-ch 3rd (2002) (which is the games of Georgian players) had all the games dated 12 June. 99 games were easier to click through than say 999 games.
Mar-11-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <Steve>

Yes, that's what I meant.

See World Junior Championship (Boys) (2005)

All games have Instanbul instead of Istanbul.

Mar-11-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <tids>

Problematic is stuff like this:

Dortmund (1981)

and Dortmund (1992).

Somehow we should be able to merge the 1981 games from 11777 with 91578. Of course they can be done one by one, but I'd rather not.

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