New Features & Fixes - Oct 27 2010

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erik
hsbgowd wrote:

Time to go back to being premium again.


niiiiiice. thanks for your support!

AndTheLittleOneSaid

It's all good. Thanks Laughing

rednblack

Play v. Computer is now available for my team games as well.

Thank you, Erik, Kohai, and the whole staff for your attention to this issue.  Customer service has always been very strong here.

Bugnado

Kind of makes you want to stick around for a lifetime doesn't it?

Ronnie_inactive

Finish game v computer has been working fine for me until now. When I went to finish a game I had resigned and clicked on Finish Game v Computer, it simply brought up a new game, however many times I tried and would not show the game in question. Can you help?

Chilli

rednblack

Ok, one more question.  When I click the finish v. computer button, it takes me to the starting position of a chess board, not to the position found when the game ended.  Ideas?

erik
rednblack wrote:

Ok, one more question.  When I click the finish v. computer button, it takes me to the starting position of a chess board, not to the position found when the game ended.  Ideas?


which game?

rednblack

@Erik, so far, all of them.

Ronnie_inactive

Erik. This is the problem I tried to explain in the post before rednblack.

Chilli

erik

hrmm. you are right. investigating....

formerstaff

Agh! Sorry - that was my fault. Small mixup between 2 files we were working with earlier.

This is now fixed.

rednblack

Working great now.  thank you.  No worries, leeked; thanks for everything you do.

SimonSeirup

Great!

trigs

just noticed and used the finish game vs computer option. quite awesome and enjoyable!

Queenme88
Very Good! "

erik wrote:

We pushed some new code today and wanted to let you know what we did :)

1. Added "Play Vs. Computer" to several features! (Premium Only)

Finish Game: Let's say your opponent resigned early and you wanted to play it out vs. the computer - now you can see what would have happened! (I LOVE this - I can now do my satisfying checkmates when my opponent resigns in the face of Mate in Two.)  Tactics Trainer: Now you can play vs. the computer and try different things! Opening Exporer: You can now check out openings, and then try them vs. the computer! Video Lessons: Play out the KEY positions of videos to see if you learned your lesson!

2. Online Chess Store: Chess.com has partnered with WholesaleChess.com to create a new, improved shopping experience on Chess.com! And now, Chess.com premium members get an additional 5% off at WholesaleChess.com when you click through our store! 

3. Vs. Computer Updates: more stable computer opponent, and you can now switch sides mid-game! 

4. Position Diagrams in Emails - a few days ago we rolled out images in emails so you can now see the last move made by your opponent. Next step is adding the actual move in there (like 4. Bxf7+!), which is coming soon. 

5. Facebook Updates - made some improvements to facebook integration, dashboard, and sharing. 

6. Misc Bugs

 

What is coming next?

Live chess shared analysis/teaching/demo board! Webmail fixes Tactics Trainer improvements Easier international membership payments Lots of other secret features.... (muahahahaha!)

Thanks for your support!


ChrisDircks

I took another look at the facebook integration, and now there's a feature to merge my chess.com and facebook chess.com accounts.  Great, except I get this error message: 

Error 717: This account is already premium. Not able to merge.

kohai

The error is caused because of a premium account. Message me both Chess.com and facebook usernames please and i'll fix it for you, if you still want to merge the accounts.

artfizz
artfizz wrote:

I've got Finish Game Vs. Computer where the game ended by checkmate.

http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=41740737


This problem is back again: Finish Game Vs. Computer is displayed where the game has ended in Checkmate or by a Draw e.g. http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=42013115http://www.chess.com/echess/game.html?id=42008737.

Apoapsis
CPawn wrote:

Outstanding job Erik! 

To bad more businesses arent run the way chess.com is run.  Putting the customer first!


 These kinds of business plans either work (like what erik did here) or crash and burn :P