stevemcd87 Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Apr-30-25 <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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Apr-07-25 chessgames.com chessforum    stevemcd87: <WannaBe> <Korora> We added a <Check Back on Game Analysis> link for running analysis, if the pop-up window was closed. You should be able to resubmit any games you've previously had trouble with and not be charged for previously analyzed positions. Below is a ...      Mar-03-25 stevemcd87 chessforum    stevemcd87: <Stone> We've removed the short name logic from the gameloader. <Could it be that it only works when DOB and DOD are known?> Yes. Are there players where that logic doesn't work? <Doesn't work anymore after FIDE has changed the url lookup of players.> Working ...      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 55 OF 62 ·  Later Kibitzing> Feb-03-24    stone free or die: Agreed, <Messiah>'s comment is far from best by test. Feb-05-24    stevemcd87: < [SourceDate "2023.10.13"] [SourceVersion "1"] [SourceVersionDate "2023.10.13"] [SourceQuality "1"] > Should we just keep the VersionDate( Date if no VersionDate ) and Quality resulting in: <[Source "BritBase; John Saunders; 2023.10.13; Q1"]> Feb-06-24    Stonehenge: I think we should get rid of this <SourceQuality> nonsense altogether. Feb-06-24    MissScarlett: Can we promote the <SourceNote> tag? I'm finding these increasingly useful. Feb-06-24    MissScarlett: <Down> is another command that is unrecognised by the Player Search function. Nicholas A Down and Henry F Down may be down but should not be out. Feb-06-24    stone free or die: Why <SourceNote> in particular? Why not a <Notes>, or <Notes_1>, <Notes_2>, ... scheme? * * * * * * <RE> SourceQuality Do we have any examples where it isn't always 1? Feb-07-24    Stonehenge: Please get rid of the photo here: Celso Golmayo Zupide. That's not Celso but Manuel. Feb-07-24    stevemcd87: <MissScarlett: <Down> is another command that is unrecognized by the Player Search function. Nicholas A Down and Henry F Down may be down but should not be out.> We've updated it to recognize So, From, and Down. Feb-07-24    stone free or die: Charm, strange, top, bottom, to, fro and up are also included I presume? Feb-09-24    MissScarlett: <steve>, did you select today and tomorrow's <GOTD>? If so, you can stop now. Feb-10-24    MissScarlett: Problem editing games with standard brackets <( )> in the Event tag. E.g. Bird vs J Wisker, 1873 Won't allow an edit update, so I had to remove them, changing from <Match (2)> to <Match 2>. But brackets in other tags seem to be fine. Feb-10-24    MissScarlett: For some strange reason, the 6th round game, [bad chessgames.com link] from Freestyle Chess GOAT Prel (2024) shows up as a game for Ding, but not for Aronian - look the numbers of games for each. I noticed in the upload process that something was amiss. Feb-10-24    stone free or die: <CG> - when games all are played on the same day could we do a secondary sort on round number? Actually, for player games from a given tournament, I think sorting by round number would be my preference. (Inspired by trying to look at <Missy>'s bad game) Feb-10-24    stevemcd87: As a quick fix, I just updated the game in the editor page without making any changes; it seems to have fixed the glitch that occurred : Aronian vs Ding Liren, 2024 Feb-10-24    stevemcd87: ... Unless someone manually fixed it before I had the chance. It appeared to have been working already. Feb-11-24    OhioChessFan: On the homepage, under New Kibitzing, this game Aronian vs Ding Liren, 2024 appears as "vs , " Feb-11-24    OhioChessFan: It also shows that way on the recent Kibitzing page. Feb-13-24    MissScarlett: In today's 960 array, the games all have a flashing a8 square: Ding Liren vs Firouzja, 2024 Feb-13-24    MissScarlett: Is there a way to stop this problem? P Lalic vs M Walker, 2024 Feb-14-24    Tabanus: [Event "Candidates playoff"] [Site "Havana CUB"] [Date "1987.11.??"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "4"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [White "Jesus Nogueiras"] [Black "Predrag Nikolic"] [WhiteElo "2555"] [BlackElo "2620"] [Source "365Chess"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 Bxd2+ 5.Qxd2 O-O 6.Bg2 d5 7.Nf3 b6 8.cxd5 exd5 9.Na3 1/2-1/2 Process it, please? It's part of the story. The original source is supposedly Sahovski Glasnik 1988. Only game missing from tid=98266 Feb-14-24    Tabanus: Thanks! Cf. Havana Candidates Reserve Playoff (1987) I made a Game Collection: Havana 1987 with xtab but have no other info, not even dates. I guess TI can wait. Mar-05-24    Stonehenge: The links you have been entering lately do not work. See e.g. Iulija Osmak Also there is a FIDE player card below the < Search Sacrifice Explorer > and < Search Google >. These should be entered in the <ADMINISTRATIVE PLAYER EDITOR>. Mar-05-24    stone free or die: RE: <Osmak> Firstly - I'd suggest following FIDE for transliteration of her name: <Osmak, Yuliia> Of course <CG> might never use the saner collation order - in which case: <Yuliia Osmak> is begrudgingly suggested instead. * * * * * Also - I think <Stonehenge> is complaining about the <<font><I>> extraneous additions to the url's in the bio's footnote links. Might someone's parser be slightly "off"? Mar-08-24    Stonehenge: What are you doing with those player pages? Pulling a Caisso? Mar-08-24    stevemcd87: I'd like to think it's an improvement. Would you prefer 2 word bios? I'm only doing PlotDs but will stop if you'd like. <Pulling a Caisso?> Pulling a ChatGPT Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 62) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 55 OF 62 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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