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stevemcd87
Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Oct-17-25
<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

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

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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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Jun-07-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

<MissScarlett>

Nice catch, and even nicer fix.

You tracked down the properly documented (and typed out) source, and have supplied the correct score:

[Source "Herald & News (Livermore, CA), 1970.12.21"]

QUESTION: How did "Dublin" get in to the original source tag, I wonder...

Jun-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Apparently a ghost Dublincate, proving a good point.
Jun-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: The Herald covered the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-V...> but it seems to have been published in Livermore. The original source was supplied by <login>: http://www.chessdryad.com/articles/...
Jun-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <After confirming that they were <ghost duplicates>, I was able to use the new "Get GID" feature to delete the games.> I have not tried this way yet, but suppose that was by merging the bad ghost game with the good game. (I do have merged tids with only 1 game (the same game) in each.)
Jun-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Stupid question: If one submits a game identical to the ghost game it will be rejected but you will find the gid of the ghost game. But what if the ghost game has a different game score? The submitted game will be accepted and you still don't know the gid of the ghost game?
Jun-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Steve, what about

stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #297)?

Jun-14-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Hello everyone,
There was an update and seems to have brought bugs with the editor page. I will be working on them.

Feel free to report any bugs you find here. I'll get to them ASAP

Jun-14-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Take for example

Venice (1953)

Only some Norcia games should missing.

<Canal> only shows six games but when you click on <games> you see Venice (1953)/Esteban Canal

The Editor doesn't work.

I can't find any editors and I can't process my games.

It says <Selected User: Stonehenge> and when I click on Show Submissions I don't see the games I've just uploaded (round 9 of GCT Bucharest Classic (2021))

Also I don't see the round eight games anymore, which I've uploaded yesterday.

Jun-14-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Thanks, <Stone>.
There are weird bugs going on, we'll get to them ASAP.
We recently hired someone to help us with these tasks as well
Jun-14-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: The European Championship (Women) (2016) has all 614 games. But when clicking on Edit standings, it's a mess.
Jun-15-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  juan31: < stevemcd87> Guess the move out of order
Jun-15-21  login:

Here is an example you are able to play through several tasks in one checking the present functionality:

Rename Karl Hoeing to Carl Hoeing (𝙃𝙤̈𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙜)

Update ??.??.1850 - Jun 07 1923

Merge (kibitzing)/delete Hoeing


One unpleasant bug [various desktop browsers, German settings] is also noticable in this example:

You might (not) have come across a different character encoding (UTF-8) between both the Bio and the Kibitzing. Unintentionally the 'update' broke (at least my) browsers' capability to correctly display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaer... throughout the site's Kibitzing portion (and members forums headers).

This should be looked into soon, as a constant stream of new Kibitzing coming in might complicate matters beyond ?äÖöü?. 𝙏𝙝𝙖̈𝙣𝙠𝙨.

Jun-15-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  juan31: < stevemcd87> login, guess the move, etc. is out of order, hope soon stabilize. Missed the education to respond of Daniel ( Rest in Peace)
Jun-16-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

<Stephen>

Unable to edit or process any new pgn uploads from the editor page.

Eternal hanging on the "Editing User Uploads..." notification screen.

I hope this will be sorted soon in the site upgrade.

Jun-16-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

<Stephen>

Unable to see the display chessboards for a FEN position on this page.

Example on this post I cannot see a board or pieces in the FEN diagram: stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #403)

Jun-16-21  WinKing: Hi <stevemcd87>. Having the same problem not being able to see the FEN positions on some pages:

Wesley So (kibitz #222602)

I know the positions were visible before the upgrades began.

Jun-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  WannaBe:


click for larger view

Test

Jun-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Petrosian - Hübner Candidates Quarterfinal (1971), should I change to Huebner?
Jun-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Now I can process my games but they don't appear in the database.
Jun-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <Tab>

I've changed it to Huebner. Also changed Fran?ois-Andr? Philidor to Francois Philidor.

Jun-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Stonehenge> Thanks.

Still, I'd prefer if if CG could allow some ... err, "umlauts". For example, I like to write Eero B??k, not Eero Book.

Jun-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Saltsjöbaden Interzonal (1948), sigh there are dozens such now.
Jun-17-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

<Stone> <Now I can process my games but they don't appear in the database.>

I reported the same finding yesterday to <Stephen> via email, but he is too busy to reply. Likely he's right in the middle of fixing it eh.

I had two games "processed" yesterday that also didn't go in the database, but for all we know they may be in the database but invisible.

I'm not going to attempt any more processing games until <Stephen> gives me the go-ahead, or some feedback instructions.

Sometimes invisible "processed games" will be read as duplicates if we try to process the game again.

Jun-18-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Chessical: After the second downtime.

Using Chrome on Android, some diagrams are not appearing (yet others on the same page do) and diacritical marks are not rendering correctly - see Huebner and Philidor psges.

Jun-19-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  juan31: The problem is in the < login> thanks
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