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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,
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 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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Oct-02-21  diceman: <stevemcd87: <diceman> I do initially see the <Sorry, no analysis for this position.> message, but when I click the "Request Analysis" button, it works.>

I think the only way to tell would be to run the PGN thru at max depth, and see if you get an actual update in the depth of the data.

This:

<better is 7...a6 8.?d3 h6 9.?ge2 ?h7 10.?g3 ?e8 11.?f3 ?f6 ? +0.57 (34 ply)>

implies it has testing for that position at 34-ply.

This:

<1) +0.41 (22 ply) 7...h6 8.Nge2 Nh7 9.Ng3 Bh4 10.Bd2 Nd7 11.Qf3 Re8 12.Nf5 Ndf8 13.Nxh4 Qxh4 14.Be2 Ng6 15.O-O-O Bd7 16.Kc2 Rad8 17.Qg2 Ng5 18.Qg3 Qxg3 19.fxg3>

implies it is looking at the position for the first time.

Oct-02-21  diceman: <stevemcd87:

Let me know if you spot any other instances I could use for testing.>

Before you closed for maintenance, I tested these two positions in the Opening Explorer.

I used the max, 1 hour/250 fuel, but they didn't really seem to update. While I didn't record what the previous lines were, it either updated very little (1 ply or so more) or just completely skipped it.

Pos-1
Opening Explorer

Pos-2
Opening Explorer

Pos-3, I tested for 1 hour, the day before, and it seemed to work. It has the more expected 39-ply depth vs the other two mid twenty, to low mid twenty, search depth.

Pos-3
Opening Explorer

All say: <60.0 minute analysis> at the bottom of the page.

Oct-04-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: What's happening with Lasker vs S Sanders, 1920?
Oct-05-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <Steve>, I duplicated a <GOTD> pick. Please fix.
Oct-06-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <MissS> The problem was that the Game's "tid"(Tournament ID) was invalid, it must've accidentally been updated.
I updated the tid to a random P&2 game( Casual game (1852) ) to get it to work.
While debugging, I also updated Sanders to NN. Lasker vs NN, 1920
Feel free to update the game to its correct data.
Sorry for the delay.
Oct-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <diceman> I was able resolve the "No Analysis" issue, at least in the cases you mentioned(move 7).
It had something to do with an opening explorer node it was linked to.
Let me know if you run into any other instances.

I reevaluated Pos-1 and it updated to look similar to Pos-2.
I will be searching through the database for "obvious" discrepancies so we can reevaluate them.
It seems one way to tell for 1-hour evaluations is to check for 3 variations.

I believe the analysis is working well enough to go public.
I will be doing the final touch ups tomorrow to put it live.
Please continue to let me know of any odd behavior.
Thanks for the help.

Oct-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <Jess> I'd like to dedicate next week to gameloader/ editor page.
Thanks for your patience.
<CGPC> meeting Monday.
Oct-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: I have one game in the queue that it refuses to process. There must be something wrong with it but I don't see it.
Oct-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: What's wrong with it?

[Event "NED-Niederrheinischer Schachverband"]
[Site "Arnhem NED"]
[Date "1906.08.??"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "de Haas, Jack"]
[Black "Salfner, Karl"]
[Source "Algemeen Handelsblad, 14–08–1906"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Bb4 5. e3 c6 6. Nf3 Nbd7 7. Bd3 Qa5 8. O-O dxc4 9. Bxc4 Bxc3 10. bxc3 Ne4 11. Bf4 Nxc3 12. Qb3 Nd5 13. Bd6 Qd8 14. e4 N5f6 15. Bxe6 Nf8 16. Bxf7+ Kd7 17. Qb4 Ng6 18. e5 Nf4 19. e6+ Nxe6 20. Ne5# 1–0

Oct-08-21  Z truth 000000001: <Stoney> you have an em-dash in the final result.

Hard to spot, you tricky devil.

Oct-08-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Much obliged, Your Lordship.
Oct-08-21  Z truth 000000001: Ha!

.

Oct-09-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Steve, can you please delete this tid 169997 and its games [bad tournament link].

Something went wrong with changing Marcel Becker to Marc Becker.

Speaking of which, I uploaded the games with the name Marc Becker but the software assumed that it was Marcel.

I've seen this nonsense all too often here.

Assuming that Marriott is Mariotti, that Casa is the same player as Casafus, Norris the same as Norri, Dudas the same as Duda, Pilnik the same as Pilnick etc. Please look into this.

Oct-09-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: [bad chessgames.com link] The game Blackburne - Puller got sick! Help.
Oct-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Richard Taylor: Where is the US Championship results and games as one might expect as it has been running for some days and Chessgames.com is, I believe, in the United States?
Oct-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: CG should relocate to Norway or Holland.
Oct-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Why in today's <GOTD> does the software think White played <13.exd4>?

Games Like B Schneider vs W Kraft, 2000

Oct-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <Richard Taylor>

On the home page, click on < more events>:

New Tournaments

Oct-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: I tried to merge NN vs B Lasker, 1881 (correct version) with NN vs Lasker, 1888 (corrected to make the moves the same) but nothing happened.
Oct-10-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: "Update Event Crosstable" still does not work.
Oct-11-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <MissS> Games Like B Schneider vs W Kraft, 2000 : I'll have to append this to the "look into" list.
Re Merged Games:
There was a bug in the editor page that was resolved.
NN vs B Lasker, 1881 Game Collections looks fine to me. The process only removes duplicates. I noticed a collection from <fredthebear> that had both games in it, one noted "zanzibar's notes"(showing the importance of merging the comments as well). In this case, the system removes the bad game from the collection.
I noticed another collection with the bad game in it and it was updated to the good game.

<Tab> I noticed that some events automatically removes the crosstable. I just found the script that is responsible for this change and will get back to you.

Priorities for this week(and next week, most likely) are the Gameloader and Gameloader post-scripts(understanding the magic behind the scenes that is supposed to keep up with a player's notable tournaments, opening/repertoire explorer, etc...).
First step, Gameloader:
Perhaps we can upgrade the Uploader to process the games one at a time.
Example,Let's say there is a list of 10 games to be uploaded.
When the system uploads the first game, the "game edit form" will pop up to show us the newly created game. At this point we can edit, force(for duplicates), and/or confirm the newly created game.
After a confirmation, The processor will go to the next game.
I'm sure we can upgrade this feature further as time goes on.
What do you think? I'm open for suggestions.
If it sounds good, I'll begin working on it.

Oct-11-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: I sometimes upload hundreds of games at once. I don't want to get a pop up after every game. An exception I will make for duplicates. There we need a pop up asking if we want to force the game in or delete it.
Oct-11-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

<Stephen>

I agree with <Stonehenge> and I would say exactly this as well:

<...I don't want to get a pop up after every game. An exception I will make for duplicates. There we need a pop up asking if we want to force the game in or delete it.>

========

Also, the uploader is working fine right now as far as I can see- what is happening with the "fix" for our games collections? I have not seen any "fixes" for the coding disaster on the hundreds of collections I have made.

Where is <beatgiant>? Is he still working on this? If worse comes to worse I will edit them by hand but every day that goes by I have less and less confidence that anything will ever be done about this.

Oct-12-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: Agree with Stone and jess on the game upload.

<jess> Why not. He first fixed the kibitzing, then the bios. It's only a week since he started on the game collections, I'm sure he will deliver. He has to :)

Oct-12-21
Premium Chessgames Member
  Tabanus: <Steve> Thanks for that explanation! That script seems to hit mostly the events from about 2005-2010. It hits for example Reykjavik Open (2010), but (to my surprise) not Reykjavik Open (2009).

If a script here is necessary at all, what about having it run only on events that have no bio text, and/or on those events where the standings table is not edited.

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