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stevemcd87
Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Oct-12-25
<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
 
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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May-25-22  Z free or die: RE: photos

Normally I argue for the liberal side, i.e. allowing permissive norms for things like adding photos.

However, I think there should be something like notice of updates, additions, and deletions in the Bistro.

A lockout latch might also be considered for cases where it is commonly know that no photo or portrait of a player is known, e.g. for the above case.

.

May-31-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <MissS: chessgames.com chessforum>

It seems the dupe filter only checks for duplicates on the given year, the players are not taken into consideration. It will not catch a dupe from a different year.
A work around to force games that are flagged as a dupe will be to change the year or add <KxK> to the score(<Z> gave me the idea - stevemcd87 chessforum ).

May-31-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Also, a volunteer—petemcd85—helped look into the "Three time repetition claimable" issue and believes he found the problem. It seems to be working so I made the update to Olga, you may need to do a hard refresh(ctrl + shift+ r) for the update.
He will now be looking into the "null moves" issue.

<Z: How hard would it be to add null moves to <chess.js>?
Not very, I suspect - so why doesn't it have them already?>

<Z>, feel free to point in the right direction

May-31-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <petemcd85> A relative?
May-31-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <It seems the dupe filter only checks for duplicates on the given year>

Bizarre. Can it be rectified?

Jun-01-22  Z free or die: <<steve> - <Z>, feel free to point in the right direction>

I looked a little bit at the code over at (?)github(?). It does look fairly doable.

Do we have a test harness for <chess.js> outside a browser? In other words, a stand alone testbed.

I'm a bit rustyt at JS, but it seemed readable, and amendable.

.

Jun-11-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: <Steve>, can you clear the pun queue list? I managed to nominate a fresh game in the hope it would do so, but it merely tacked it onto the end.
Jun-19-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: Can you delete two correction slips - remnants of the Great Outage:

Game - GLMH46SQ1

Player - PPP0QQQPPP1QQQ

....

and process Chessical's games. I think no one else can.

Jun-19-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Editors should now be able to upload Chessical's games. Let me know if you run into an issue
Jun-20-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: After two weeks of no problem regarding stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #1019), yesterday it came back again.

Two more hints: control-f to find stuff doesn't work anymore and my laptop fan starts to make noise.

Jun-20-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: <Stone> I cleared/archived your previous uploads. Let me know if that helps.
Jun-22-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: I've had the same problem already twice after that.

<The button below will update the player's page when "Number of games in database:" doesn't match the actual number of games in the database.>

I hope you can fix the automated process. Same goes for <Last FIDE rating>.

See for example Machteld van Foreest.

<Last FIDE rating: 2161>.

It's actually 2295.

Jul-06-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  DaltriDiluvi: Hello stevemcd87,

Could you or someone else please remove the stars and stripes from the chessgames.com logo? It's not July 4 anymore.

Jul-14-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Check It Out: Hi <steve>, one odd thing at the live games is when I kibitz, my comment stays in the kibitz box (even when I switch games), and I have to delete it before posting again.
Jul-14-22  login:

Addendum for PID 147997. The following characters in the caption were just there for a 'secure' transfer and should be deleted ' .... '.

Thank you for the overall swift processing.

Jul-16-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Would you add the missing Radjabov - Giri Rd 5 game to FTX Road to Miami (2022)
Jul-20-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Still waiting...and on the subject of FTX Road to Miami (2022), I was under the impression that Aronian beat Wei Yi in the final.

Could you clear the pun submission list of everything but the last entry, i.e., the Petrosian - Hort game.

Jul-20-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  Chessical: Please could you empty the "Vote on Collections" booth (accessed from the Biographers Bistro page) and revive the auto-deletion script once a collection has been voted in.

Unfortunately, the booth currently is a confusing mess with the completed collections relegated to junk in a neglected lumber room.

Jul-21-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Go Steve!
Jul-28-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: The correction slips should be working again, rewrote the api in our new language(NodeJS).
You may need to do a hard refresh( ctrl + shift + r ).
We still need to display the comments as it was before but this should get you guys going, sorry for the delay.
I corrected a player slip to test and it seems to be working but please use with caution for now(Double check corrections).
Sorry for the delay.
Aug-04-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: Need a reset on https://www.chessgames.com/perl/sho... again.
Aug-04-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: In case unclear, remove all puns except the last...
Aug-04-22  stone free or die: Can't <CG> just allow <Missy> authority for such resets?

In this case, I think I'd support the streamlining.

.

Aug-04-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  jessicafischerqueen:

I agree with <z>. I think <MissScarlett> should have authority for resets to help streamline the necessary work.

I hope he is getting paid at this point if he is doing administrative duties?

Aug-04-22
Premium Chessgames Member
  MissScarlett: To be fair, <steve> did say he intended to add the facility that would allow me to edit the list, but I told him not to bother. At that stage, I wasn't aware what would happen if the list was left empty - that it would automatically revert to a long list of prior <GOTD>s. On a couple of occasions, I accidentally promoted games that I had intended to delete . So, upon reflection, that additional power would be welcomed.

At present, <steve> has not acted on my earlier request and another redux is on the cards.

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