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stevemcd87
Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Oct-21-25
<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
<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

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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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Mar-18-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Steve> For example the non-TI D Palo vs R Ruck, 2003, if I type "European Championship" in Event field I get this message because European Championship (2003) is already in TI. If it wasn't the game would be added.
Mar-19-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Hey <Tab>,
I wasn't able to replicate the error.
I've created a slip for D Palo vs R Ruck, 2003 , feel free to give it another shot.
If you receive the "fatal error", try updating the "Tournament" input to 39646 (tid for European Championship (2003)).

I am also working on the bug that continues to show empty edit form, I could see how that can get annoying

Mar-19-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Hmm? Not on the Editor's page,

I meant the game itself D Palo vs R Ruck, 2003, at bottom of that page there is an option to edit Event and click on Update. It works only for non-TI events.

Mar-20-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Thanks a lot, <Tab>.
This had led us to more validations we would need to put on the Tournament Site and Event Date updater, to ensure proper data is being inserted.
Examples:
- Please make the site information more compact.
- Please do not use quotation marks in site names.
- Please do not use brackets in site names.
- Please do not use greater/less-than symbols in site names.

And there's a few more, please use caution with the Tournament Site and Event Date updater, for now, as we put in the extra validations.

We can also add the ability to update all "Event" tags to a tournament, if you'd think it'll be helpful.

Mar-20-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: We've updated the editor page to now allow us to add a table to a tournament and merge tournaments.
You may need to clear your browser's cache with a hard refresh to see the updates.

I still don't think I found the root of the "blank edit form" issue but have been making minor changes that should help.

REMINDER: <Please use caution with the Tournament Site and Event Date updater, for now, as we put in the extra validations.>

Thanks for your patience.

Mar-20-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Excellent. <We can also add the ability to update all "Event" tags to a tournament, if you'd think it'll be helpful.>

I'd like that too. I think it would make the work less confusing.

Mar-21-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Can we recover this missing game G B Fraser vs Steinitz, 1867?
Mar-22-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Tid merging worked.

[bad tournament link] (round 13 of EuCh 2005) had about 88 games which was merged into European Championship (2005).

Mar-22-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Hello <MissS>,
It seems there was a problem with the game's eco, it's been updated from "?" to "000" but we have a bug in Olga that occurs for Odds games.
So, this link -> G B Fraser vs Steinitz, 1867 only works until move 17 because 17.5(Qf7) is an illegal move due to the pawn.
I was working on a solution, a while back, when <jessica> first brought the issue to my attention but it doesn't seem to work for all devices.
Try this link -> https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... to see if it works on your device.
Mar-23-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: It's fixed now. The issue is I think that if the [SetUp] tag is not correctly set, i.e., [SetUp "1"] or more likely, not put in at all, the software, in the presence of a [Fen] tag, defaults to [SetUp "0"], which then needs to be manually corrected. Can you change it to automatically set it to 1?
Mar-23-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Thanks a lot, <MissS>!
I'll look into adding the "SetUp" tag automatically, when needed.
Mar-23-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Here's an odds game that only looks curtailed:

G B Fraser vs Steinitz, 1867

Mar-24-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Reposted from Bistro:

<Mar-24-21 Alan McGowan: In case it is relevant to posting by <Z4all>: In the summer of 2020 I sent 26 photos of players to Annie, for use in biographies. She later told me she no longer worked for chessgames.com and that she had passed on the images to Sargon. These images have not been used on the relevant pages.>

Mar-24-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Thanks for bringing the post to my attention, <Tab>.
We're looking into it.
Mar-25-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: < I still don't think I found the root of the "blank edit form" issue but have been making minor changes that should help. >

It looks like a buffer is filling up or something. In the morning I can do twenty or so game correction slips without any trouble. It gets worse during the day. The more I do, the more the problem occurs.

Mar-26-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: European Championship (2006), 753 games were played. CG has 752. I was unable to upload this one:

[Event "European Championship"]
[Site "Kusadasi TUR"]
[Date "2006.04.15"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Mastrovasilis, Dimitrios"]
[Black "Sulskis, Sarunas"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C92"]
[WhiteElo "2573"]
[BlackElo "2504"]
[PlyCount "25"]
[EventDate "2006.04.04"]
[Source "365Chess"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Bb7 10. d4 Re8 11. Ng5 Rf8 12. Nf3 Re8 13. Ng5 1/2-1/2

Mar-26-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Bug report:

Update Event Crosstable doesn't work for European Championship (2006). It works for a while, then goes back to list of players.

Mar-27-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: From the player list on the home page:

Fernandez, Morovic should be Morovic (or Morovic Fernandez)

Zuniga, Granda should be Granda (or Granda Zuniga).

Apr-01-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: A little irritating also that while 1653 games were played in the European Championship (2009), CG has 1652, missing

[Event "European Championship"]
[Site "Budva MNE"]
[Date "2009.03.16"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Solomunovic, Igor"]
[Black "Wells, Peter K"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2416"]
[BlackElo "2513"]
[EventDate "2009.03.06"]
[Source "365Chess"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. c3 O-O 9. h3 Bb7 10. d4 Re8 11. Ng5 Rf8 12. Nf3 Re8 13. Ng5 1/2-1/2

Apr-02-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Yes, some tournaments cannot be completed because of this.

We need a message saying something like <gid 12345 you're trying to process is a duplicate of gid 67890. Do you want to force it in, yes or no?>.

Apr-02-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Good idea. I would not force in all GM draws, for example when other games are unavailable anyway, but quite often it's the best.
Apr-02-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

Good morning.

<GrahamClayton> offers a good suggestion to edit the pgn upload utility page: PGN Upload Utility

Here is a portion of the text on that page as it is now:

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

<Please provide the source for all submitted games in the "Source" tag of the PGN file (maximum 64 characters). Insert PGN (header+moves) for game below:

You may include comments to chessgames.com here:

The following PGN is provided as an example:
[Event "London Match"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1866.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Bird, Henry E"]
[Black "Steinitz, Wilhelm"]
[ECO "A02"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

1.f4 e5 2.fxe5 d6 3.exd6 Bxd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 Nc6 6.Bg5 Bg4 7.e3 Qd7 8.Bxf6 gxf6 9.Bb5 O-O-O 10.d5 Qe7 11.Bxc6 Qxe3+ 12.Qe2 Qc1+ 13.Qd1 Rde8+ 14.Bxe8 Rxe8+ 15.Kf2 Qe3+ 16.Kf1 Bxf3 17.gxf3 Bc5 18.Kg2 Rg8+ 0-1>

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

You will note that the instructions say a source tag is necessary, but the sample pgn does not include a source tag.

<Graham> suggests editing a source tag in to the sample pgn on this page.

Here is <Graham's> original kibbitz: jessicafischerqueen chessforum (kibitz #37104)

Apr-03-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

<Stephen>

This is a game with correct provenance: F Amelung vs A Ascharin, 1878

Here is a duplicate of that game with incorrect provenance: F Amelung vs A Ascharin, 1884

I submitted a correction slip, but I'm on the Editors Page now and I cannot seem to delete the duplicate for some reason? I left the correction slip up, so you should be able to see it.

Apr-03-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Need to recover the Morphy - Conway game, if possible.

Moncure Daniel Conway

Apr-03-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <jess> I was able to delete it. I have experienced the same as you once or twice before.
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