stevemcd87 Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Oct-20-25 <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 chessgames.com chessforum - <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

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Oct-12-25 stevemcd87 chessforum    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    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    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    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    stevemcd87: Here's a similar game where white wins: N Abasov vs R Sadhwani, 2022      Sep-12-24 V Stefansson vs D Gukesh, 2024    stevemcd87: Lichess is down      Apr-22-24 R Shcherbakov vs V Isupov, 1990    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    stevemcd87: <whiteshark: What about the other boards?> Praggnanandhaa vs Caruana?      Apr-17-24 D Gukesh vs Caruana, 2024    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    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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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 28 OF 64 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: <Today's GotD is highlighted in green, puns will be played in order. After clicking the 'Select Pun for GotD', the pun will be appended to the list below.> Can't see <Select Pun for GoTD>. Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: The current favourite for tomorrow's <GOTD> is Karpov vs Timman, 1988. Sep-20-21    OhioChessFan: <JFQ: <Ohio> do you mean <MissScarlett>?> Yes. <In a rare serious note, I don't think so. Over the past year or so I have gotten some substantial help from her on various projects, and I can report this: although she likes to talk smack, when she gets down to actual cases she is "all bidness."> Okay. <She has my vote to get any kind of administrative powers they give her. > I'd agree except for the one under discussion. And my previously mentioned reason why: <That said, you're a terrible choice to run GotD as your ignorance of American pop culture has in the past, and surely will in the future, cause you to not appreciate great puns.> <I have 100 percent faith she would not abuse those powers, though she would certainly publicly- and falsely- post that she was abusing those powers.> I get the 7 days threat was just talk. My response was just talk, although IMHO a fairly accurate estimate. Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: I proudly admit to having seen none of these shows: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertai... But in a bid to test the waters, here are five unbiased candidates for my first selection. Feedback welcome. 1) <Ding Down, Merry Li on High Ding Liren vs Li Chao, 2011 submitted by MissScarlett> Let's save for December 25th! 2) <Beware the Ideas of Martz W Martz vs Miles, 1976 submitted by MissScarlett> 3) <Black Hoek Down Euwe vs A J van den Hoek, 1942 submitted by MissScarlett> 4) <The Not So Great Gadsby Lasker vs A Gadsby, 1908 submitted by MissScarlett> 5) <For Hume the Bell Tolls J J Rousseau vs D Hume, 1765 submitted by MissScarlett> Sep-20-21    Messiah: <MissScarlett: The current favourite for tomorrow's <GOTD> is Karpov vs Timman, 1988.> +1 <MissScarlett: I proudly admit to having seen none of these shows: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertai... But in a bid to test the waters, here are five unbiased candidates for my first selection. Feedback welcome. 1) <Ding Down, Merry Li on High Ding Liren vs Li Chao, 2011 submitted by MissScarlett> Let's save for December 25th! 2) <Beware the Ideas of Martz W Martz vs Miles, 1976 submitted by MissScarlett> 3) <Black Hoek Down Euwe vs A J van den Hoek, 1942 submitted by MissScarlett> 4) <The Not So Great Gadsby Lasker vs A Gadsby, 1908 submitted by MissScarlett> 5) <For Hume the Bell Tolls J J Rousseau vs D Hume, 1765 submitted by MissScarlett>> Terrible! Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: I note that 2, perhaps 3, of the nominees owe something to American culture, of which, of course, in the UK, we don't get nearly enough. Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: <<steve>, really, you've made a terrible choice here.> I like to imagine that I was chosen by <Miss Susan>. Us <Susans> must stick together. Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: With time running short, I'm not sure I've made myself clear. Steve, I don't know how make <GOTD> selections. Sep-20-21    Messiah: <MissScarlett: With time running short, I'm not sure I've made myself clear. Steve, I don't know how make <GOTD> selections.> Seek for the string <Messiah>, and click on <OK>. Sep-20-21    OhioChessFan: 2 & 3 are terrific. 5 is pretty good. 1 & 4 are okay. Black is KO, inexplicably highly rated in the voting booth, is terrible. Ditto today's pun. 14! people voted positively for a pun nobody gets? Unbelievable. Sep-20-21    OhioChessFan: Looking at the top 25 rated puns(curses, Steve, for revealing them), I'd say 8 of them are good quality, numbers 1, 2, 5, 9, 10, 19, 20, 24. Two more are okay, numbers 6 and 21. The other 15 of the top 25 rated are simply bad. OTIH, I saw a string of outstanding puns rated in the 800's. I just don't get it. Sep-20-21    Z truth 000000001: <OCF> could you please cite a couple of those "outstanding" puns for us? Just to get the idea. Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: <Or is that impossible now that the <Olga> creators have gone mental and abandoned their promising viewer, that has turned to crap because they couldn't be arsed to finish building it properly?> That rather begs the question as to the identity of said developers, and the circumstances under which they parted company with <cg.com>. Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: Three hours to go... Sep-20-21    OhioChessFan: <Three hours to go...> I'm betting on Karpov vs Timman, 1988 Sep-20-21    MissScarlett: I might fall asleep in the meantime so here's my first <GOTD> pun if Steve can't fix matters in time (assuming he's even aware of the problem) : <Does M Bosboom Look Big In This? M Bosboom vs E Teichmann, 1984 submitted by MissScarlett> Sep-20-21    Tabanus: <Steve> On https://web.archive.org/web/2012100... I finally found a working link - to the games of Reykjavik Open 1964-2012. My ChessBase can open it. But unfortunately, Meier's round 8 & 9 games (in 2008) are missing also there. Sep-21-21    Z truth 000000001: Nice find <tab>. Sep-21-21    Tabanus: https://theweekinchess.com/ The TWIC games before July 2012 costs 30 pounds. The download seems to have games since TWIC started in 1994? It's not explicitly stated what it contains. Sep-21-21    Tabanus: Perhaps if CG bought those games and published them, TWIC would be ruined. Sep-21-21    Z truth 000000001: <<Tab> Perhaps if CG bought those games and published them, TWIC would be ruined.> <CG> pretty much ruins the PGN it swipes from TWIC already. Please don't ruin all the rest of TWIC too. . Sep-21-21    MissScarlett: Step 1: <Select Pun for GotD> Step 2: <Are you sure you'd like to select 'pun' for GotD?> Step 3: <Successful!> Step 4: <You are not authorized.> Step 5: <@#$%* @#$%!> Sep-21-21    MissScarlett: I like to think that <CG> is raising PGN to a new standard. Sep-22-21    Tabanus: <Z> I won't pay the 30 pounds. I don't know if CG has all the pre-2012 games already. MC is doing a great job. May he live forever! Sep-22-21    MissScarlett: I have the power! Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 64) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 28 OF 64 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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