New Features & Fixes - June 30 2009

New updates today!

The biggest one is... Chess960! You can play 960 in normal games or 960 tournaments.

Next big news, the Game Explorer is totally updated and fixed. Includes: removed poor quality games, fixed transposition issues due to en passant FEN, added the most recent GM-level tournament games to update everything, and now all Chess.com member games will import properly.

We have also (fingers crossed!) fixed Tactics Trainer skipping issues. Or if they do happen, you don't get penalized.

Smaller Fixes:

• fixed some stats/graphing bugs
• added more results in forum searches
• you can now delete the first thread of a forum post without taking out the whole thread
• new boxes on the homepage for logged in users (added tactics and chess mentor instead of mobile and something else :))
• when you download multiple games they come in one PGN instead of multiple
• removed access to articles for non-authenticated authors; added process for authenticating quality authors on the site
• fixed "no spamming" message
• fixed issue in chrome with "Next Move" icon not showing up
• fixed photo uploader
• fixed tactics game view link (to see the actual game)
• added to mobile API for upcoming iphone app
• pushed some preparatory code for new live chess 2.0 coming
• misc mispellings, etc

Enjoy! Thanks to everyone for your support.

First! Nice job.

Great Eric, Thanks.

Nice.  A couple of admin's can't post news or updates in their groups now though.  I hope this isn't another bug.  :-).  Good stuff!

very good job. and well done

Disregard last post... chess.com is fixing it now.

Wow, I was missing 960º on the site and now I see it has become true!

And the update of game explorer! :)

Thanks Erik and chess.com staff.... for doing this site everyday even better.! :)

Awesome

Sounds great!  Thank you!

Hey that's cool.  I've been wanting to play 960 for a while.  Now the site is perfect ... no wait there is still supposed to be a problem with Live Chess although I've never had a problem. 

You guys just keep making this place better and better.

Nice 1 erik! Wanting to play 960 now!

Cool.

ADK

sounds pretty cool

Thanks! The game explorer changes sound good, and I eagerly await the iPhone app. Any word on when?

Fixed game explorer? Upcoming iPhone application? Nice, Erik, very nice :-)

Wow - 960 and Tactics Trainer de-bugging!  Hurray for chess.com!  :-)

create a game (using ADVANCED SETTINGS)

Hey, I have been quick and I have organised the first chess960 tournament:

1st Chess 960 TOURNAMENT

Please join! :) Feel the new experiences here in chess.com! :)

There is a new bug in Game Explorer :-(

In my own games as Black, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5, it says I played 3...Nf6 three times, and this is true. But after that move, it says 4.d3 and 4.Bxc6 happened once each, and 4.Nc3 happened twice!

The thing is that the position after 4.Nc3 also happened once after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bb5.

So the position after 4.Nc3 happened twice, but the move was played in the position after 3...Nf6 only once!

it's not about moves... it's about positions!