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stevemcd87
Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Jun-02-25
<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

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

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   stevemcd87 has kibitzed 548 times to chessgames   [more...]
   May-18-25 chessgames.com chessforum (replies)
 
stevemcd87: <MissScarlett: Tried to enter pun '8618' for Firouzja vs D Gukesh, 2025. Rejected, due to lack of text.> I can manually enter the pun for tomorrow's GotD if you'd like.
 
   Mar-03-25 stevemcd87 chessforum (replies)
 
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 (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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Nov-12-24  stone free or die: chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #41791)
Nov-26-24  stone free or die: <steve> this came up over in the Bistro...

Are you aware of <Daniel>'s <fixpgn> program?

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Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: chessgames.com chessforum (kibitz #20311)

<Z>, I had the same thought: ask Steve to find and run the fixpgn script. If not nightly then at least weekly.

Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: <Steve>, not a bug, but a desired improvement:

Biographer Bistro (kibitz #30677)

And if it's as easy as I suspect, can the existing alias name data be utilized in EZ and Advanced searching as a Christmas gift to the Bistro?

If it's more complicated due to hidden pitfalls I'd be ok with it being added to your <TODO> list for 2025.

Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  stevemcd87: Hello all,
I'll get to your requests after the Engine upgrade is complete.
We have a hard deadline of December 3, 2024.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: One concern, perhaps.

Please make sure the fixpgn doesn't remove the newer tags added since 2018... Source, WhiteTeam, BlackTeam, etc.

I'd hate to lose all the Source data that has been added.

Nov-26-24  stone free or die: <<jn> Please make sure the fixpgn doesn't remove the newer tags added since 2018... Source, WhiteTeam, BlackTeam, etc.

I'd hate to lose all the Source data that has been added.>

Good point.

I think there's a lot of homework involved in revitalizing <fixpgn>. It's a program whose purpose and effect should be thoroughly understood before running.

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Nov-26-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: The notable tournaments on player pages, can they be ordered by date?
Dec-02-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  jnpope: <CG> has a paying member posting something about "political trolling" occurring on the page for Kash Patel through the "correction slip" system. I'm not sure if they reported it through any other channel.

I see no posts (meaning it's the usual gang of people on my own ignore-list), so my inference is that page is quickly becoming the new Rogoff page.

You may want to speak with <Susan> about shadowing that player off of the homepage a la Rogoff.

Dec-02-24  stone free or die: The crap on <Kash Patel>'s page should be exorcised immediately.

Nipped right in the Rumpelstiltskin!

Dec-02-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: That's the trouble making zanzibar we've known for decades. Yes z, major blunder on your part -- AGAIN. When will you ever (never) grow up and check the facts before you post so much rubbish???

All such <sfod> CRAP should be deleted instantly, so you happen to be correct in this instance by default. Your spontaneous combustion is so full of off-base opinions and mistakes. It just goes on and on and on. The CGs double standard of targeting and unfairness lives like royalty.

Dec-02-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: Look at this ingenious post A Broom from the volunteer editor, the standard of which is easy surpassed, but of course is immediately deleted if a targeted member makes the statement.

Perhidious has made hundreds if not thousands of such lame, useless posts on the biography pages over the decades. If CGs operators want to pretend to take the high road and clean something up, get rid of that non-sense.

Dec-03-24  stone free or die: Somebody needs to be put to bed. Clearly the tot is overtired.
Dec-04-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  moronovich: The page for the livetransmission from the WC match, isnĀ“t working for the moment ;)
Dec-04-24  stone free or die: There's a few <CG> rules that I'd like to remind the <admins> of, in reverse order:

<8. Do not degrade Chessgames or any of it's staff/volunteers.

6. No trolling.

5. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members.

3. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members.>

Now, I claim that <Fred> is continuously violating all of these, especially recently.

In particular, to allow a slag like

<Perhidious>

stevemcd87 chessforum (kibitz #1483)

to remain on this forum is tacit to compliciancy condoning it - despite the fact that it's a childish (and obvious) troll, as well as a systematic attack on a <CG> member/volunteer.

Dec-20-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  Stonehenge: <Steve>

Do you have an explanation why my laptop fan goes berserk when I process my own uploads?

When processing games submitted by other members I don't have that problem. You don't happen to have some program running to check on my submissions or something?

Dec-20-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: Typical stone scree more lies.

Never says a word about all the unnecessary, vicious attacks, the nasty never-ending name calling by his pal pervicious, an internet thug if there ever was one. zanzibar, the troll master w/a hundred disguises who will spend an entire page repeating...

drip, drip, drip

drip, drip, drip

drip, drip, drip

It's truly laughable to see z put on black face and call out "wolf." What a sniveler.

Yeah, the Boston Sniveler. It fits.

Dec-20-24  stone free or die: Speaking of snivel drivel!

<Reminds me of Barrack Hussein Obama using words like Affordable Care Act, you keep your doctor, No Super PACs, closing Guantanamo Bay, Arab Spring, world tour apologizing for American arrogance and policy and interrogating terrorists, open boarders, sending humans back to the moon by 2020 and on to Mars, "Global Warming" [now called "Climate Change" instead] turned out to be a scientific lie as the earth was actually cooling, the TRILLION dollar stimulus Recover Act was not at all "shovel ready jobs" and "clean energy jobs" and "green economy" was a complete no go as Solyndra went bankrupt (good grief!??) but kickbacks to union donors, 36 straight months of employment above 8%, four straight years of spending deficits over $1 trillion, lift 2 million Americans from poverty, 1 million electric cars by 2015, "cap and trade", all that LGTBQ alphabet stuff, race baiting relating to police enforcement, "long form birth certificate," having the audacity to mock DT's "word salad" etc. etc. etc. All pure Social-Marxist hot gas never approaching reality. There was Michelle's remark of "ashamed to be an American." Of course, Joe cannot blame Barry for Joe copying such blatant dishonesty, as Joe was already well-off the fact track back in the 1980s when Barry was still budding. So, so, so glad all those bad tunes are behind us, although DT has TONS of cleaning up to do.>

Chessgames - Music (kibitz #310)

Even on a fun forum like <Music>, freddie can't help but be a drip.

Political or otherwise.

Dec-22-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: Zanzibar missed the point, entirely but not surprisingly, perhaps deliberately, and the music link. Being a troll, z doesn't give a crap about content. z just wanna troll and eat fruitcake: https://www.theroot.com/fruitcake-i...

Let Jimmy tell it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wne...

Booze? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4...

Somethin' aint whrite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rps...

Dec-22-24  stone free or die: Fred is on a vendetta, harassing me needlessly (and fruitlessly) with his crap from forum to forum.

Frothy smelly bear, stinks up the room wherever he goes.

Dec-23-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: No, just correcting your erroneous, never-ending z troll posts as alwayz. Your crap should never be allowed to stand as if it iz some sort of proper information to mislead impressionable viewers that might not know how big a pest and liar that you z troll really are. sfod could have easily worked in Joe Biden's administration of complete deception

- https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...

- https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/othe...

- https://www.politifact.com/article/...

etc. etc. etc.

BTW, none of this was happening when sfod was AWOL during the summer months. There was peace in the valley of CGs. When z troll master returned in October (?), so did the massive trolling of zanzibar. Trolling iz zanzibar's beloved identity.

It's simple really. z troll master believes that woke z has the right to continuously take shots at Fredthebear, but FTB does not have the right to respond. When FTB responds to zanzibar's continuous attacks, sfod dishonestly calls it Fred being on a vendetta as in fact Fred is defending the never ending liez of z free legend XP and whatever other sock puppet disguise sfod uses.

The solution for sfod is really simple. If zanzibar does not like FTB's comments, then stop trolling FTB continuously, and there won't be a response to the z lies that are no longer posted.

Of course, if sfod did not post anymore liez, sfod would not receive any more negative attention that zanzibar so desperately craves, so the simple solution will never come to pass. Liez are far better than silence in z free legend's limited mindset of harassment, harassment, harassment.

Now here comes the mindless standard...

drip, drip, drip stuff

Dec-23-24
Premium Chessgames Member
  fredthebear: P.S. I thought everybody might appreciate the fruitcake or Jimmy Buffet links, but that was passed over as usual. You miss out when you don't watch/follow the group sing alongs.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...

Dec-23-24  stone free or die: Fred, the liverwurst kid of <CG>.
Dec-24-24  Messiah: <perfy> and <stone free or die> should get a Christmas Banhammer.
Dec-24-24  stone free or die: <Messy> is a messy Weihnachten Schweinerei b8 b&.

WoTaS

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