stevemcd87 Member since Jun-06-20 · Last seen Dec-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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Dec-22-25 stevemcd87 chessforum    stevemcd87: <Stonehenge: Why do some players have <most played openings> like this Magnus Carlsen and some have it like this Marion Heintze?> There's a script that creates a HTML page for the higher rated players, same script in <Player Page Update> section, which adds ...      Dec-01-25 chessgames.com chessforum    stevemcd87: <stone free or die: Can I get an acknowledgement that the utf-8 pun mishandling has at least been noted by an admin?> Yes, it's been noted. We usually fix it manually when it happens. Sorry we didn't get to it yesterday      Nov-24-25 Biographer Bistro    stevemcd87: <perf> I made an edit to Miro Reverby due to an email saying he doesn't want his player page associated with his handle on <CG>      Nov-02-25 Q Gong vs O Husbands, 2014   stevemcd87: <Housed Husbands> R Aloma Vidal vs O Husbands, 2016 seemed like a reasonable candidate to the pun as well      Nov-02-25 Y Li vs Xiong, 2025    stevemcd87: Sorry <offramp>. There was a bug that would occasionally display Xiongjian's game. It has been fixed.      Nov-01-25 FIDE World Cup (2025)    stevemcd87: Suggestions for Round 1 Live Games are welcomed. https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-...      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

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 63 OF 65 ·  Later Kibitzing> Aug-17-25    Stonehenge: When checking the box of <Display 100 games per page (instead of 25)> I can see the game too. When unchecked I'm not seeing it. Aug-17-25    stone free or die: Good slewing on that. Does this mean we've (i.e. <CG>) has been missing games from player listings forever - as in a coding error not doing mod arithmetic properly? It would be very hard to detect such an omission by a general user - you'd need to look at a special case (game of interest that happened to be on the boundary). Aug-17-25    Stonehenge: Folke Ekstrom with 25 games per page. Hastings: On page 1 I'm seeing his games against Denker, Steiner, Aitken, Mieses, Tartakower, Devos and Thomas. and on page two Thomas (again!), Sergeant, Christoffel and Prins. Not his game against Euwe. Aug-17-25    stevemcd87: Thanks, <Stone>. An update has been made that seems to have resolved the issue. Aug-17-25    Stonehenge: Yes, it's OK now. Sep-06-25    jnpope: Chessgames - Politics Steve, can you please make this PID (181466) visible in the Recent Kibitzing box (and God have mercy on our souls). Can you also make the player replacement PID invisible at least until the natives calm down about the changes: 220994 Sep-07-25    jnpope: Chessgames - Sports I see no reason to block this forum from the recent kibitzing if politics is making the homepage now. Sep-07-25    stone free or die: <<jn> I see no reason to block this forum from the recent kibitzing if politics is making the homepage now.> You earlier pointed out why both forums shouldn't show up on <Recent Kibitzing>. I'll give my version - both these forums are such high volume that the <Recent Kibitzing> doesn't really show any useful information. So it's just handy for navigation purposes - which isn't really sufficient cause for losing those extra slots on the notice page. Sep-19-25    Tabanus: <Steve> Fix/add this game please: [Event "Barcelona Zonal"] [Site "Castelldefels ESP"] [Date "1985.03.06"] [Round "4"] [White "Javier Ochoa"] [Black "Angel Martin Gonzalez"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteElo "2435"] [BlackElo "2370"] [Source "Jaque 172 pp. 195-196"] 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. Be2 Nc6 8. O-O O-O 9. Nb3 Be6 10. f4 Rc8 11. Kh1 Na5 12. f5 Nc4 13. Bd4 Bd7 14. Bxc4 Rxc4 15. Qd3 b5 16. Nd2 Rc8 17. Nxb5 Bxb5 18. Qxb5 Rxc2 19. Bc3 Rxd2 20. Bxd2 Nxe4 21. Ba5 Qa8 22. Rae1 Rb8 23. Qe2 d5 24. b3 Rc8 25. fxg6 hxg6 26. Rc1 Bd4 27. Rcd1 Be5 28. Qf3 f5 29. Rc1 Kg7 30. Rxc8 Qxc8 31. g3 Qa6 32. Bb4 d4 33. Re1 Qb7 34. a3 Nxg3+ 35. Kg2 Ne4 36. Kg1 Qc7 37. Rxe4 fxe4 38. Qxe4 Bxh2+ 39. Kh1 Be5 40. Kg2 Bf6 41. Bd2 Qd7 42. b4 Qf5 43. Qxf5 gxf5 44. b5 e5 0-1 It seems the invisible and inaccessible wrong version of it - with "[Result "0-1"]" missing - is blocking this version from being added. Oct-07-25    Tabanus: <Steve> Please add this game: [Event "Nordic Championship"] [Site "Gjovik NOR"] [Date "1985.07.19"] [Round "4"] [White "Hjartarson, Johann"] [Black "Olafsson, Helgi"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2505"] [BlackElo "2515"] [Source "CB Big Database 2006"] 1. c4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. Bf4 Bf5 7. e3 e6 8. Bd3 Bxd3 9. Qxd3 Bd6 10. Bxd6 Qxd6 11. O-O O-O 12. Rac1 Rac8 13. h3 h6 1/2-1/2 even it's the same game score as S Djuric vs K Georgiev, 1985. Oct-09-25    Stonehenge: It's in now: Hjartarson vs H Olafsson, 1985. Oct-09-25    Tabanus: Thanks <Stonehenge>! I was worried, you've been away a whole week :) Oct-09-25    Stonehenge: Just a little physical problem. Oct-10-25    MissScarlett: <even it's the same game score> When this happens, I simply add a distinguishing extra move to the PGN and then edit it back out. Oct-10-25    MissScarlett: <steve>, can we add the [Board "x"] tag to the approved list? The [White/BlackTeam] tags are always relegated to the bottom of the PGN. Can they be retained as entered? Oct-10-25    Tabanus: <I simply add a distinguishing extra move to the PGN and then edit it back out.> I'll try to remember that! Salamat! Oct-11-25    stevemcd87: <MissS> The Board tag is now accepted. We can reorder the tags as you like but the order needs to be specified for now. I placed Board below the Team tags. <I simply add a distinguishing extra move to the PGN and then edit it back out.> I believe the distinguishing extra move( KxK works ) must go before move 45 for longer games Oct-11-25    MissScarlett: [White] [Black] [WhiteTeam] [BlackTeam] <I believe the distinguishing extra move( KxK works ) must go before move 45 for longer games> How many games longer than 45 moves are identical? We're almost exclusively talking about known drawing lines from the opening. Oct-11-25    MissScarlett: Are there plans for a live game transmission from the US championship? Oct-12-25    stevemcd87: <MissScarlett: Are there plans for a live game transmission from the US championship?> We can relay any classical events that are broadcasted on Lichess( https://lichess.org/broadcast ). Events with over 20 boards tend to give problems but we can begin working on improvements again. I don't see the US Championship listed on Lichess. Oct-12-25    MissScarlett: Is there no other avenue but Lichess? Oct-12-25    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-14-25    Stonehenge: The link to Wikipedia doesn't work here: G A Stany. Oct-15-25    stone free or die: Stany's wiki link is now fixed. Oct-16-25    MissScarlett: Drop everything else. Your priority should be to finally sort this issue! J F Cubas vs A Shcherbine, 2007 J F Cubas vs A Shcherbine, 2007 Jump to page #   (enter # from 1 to 65) search thread:    < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 63 OF 65 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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