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- Wed Aug 23, 2017 5:48 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Happy...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8711
Re: Happy...
My totality photo:
- Sun Jul 09, 2017 10:42 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Here's to all cheaters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17060
Re: Here's to all cheaters
Engines are not allowed in USCF correspondence which is the set of rules we follow here.
- Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:05 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Round 2 of the 2017 Net-Chess Open will start on Jul 2
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8788
Round 2 of the 2017 Net-Chess Open will start on Jul 2
Round 2 of the 2017 Net-Chess Open will start on Jul 2
- Mon Jun 19, 2017 5:42 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Be careful with your furry friends in the heat.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10178
Be careful with your furry friends in the heat.
Rosie is the Golden Retriever in the photo below. We took all three dogs for a walk Saturday. It was hot and humid, and less than a half mile in we decided to turn around and go back since the dogs seemed to be getting worn out faster than usual. By the time my girlfriend got Rosie home, she was com...
- Mon May 29, 2017 9:50 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Most embarrassing defeat ever...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 8753
Re: Most embarrassing defeat ever...
Is this it?
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- Thu May 18, 2017 7:48 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: MY ONE WISH
- Replies: 25
- Views: 46852
Re: MY ONE WISH
Been working on this:
http://www.net-chess.com/newboard/test.html
It scales to the width of the screen, but not the height yet, so you might have to make the window smaller.
http://www.net-chess.com/newboard/test.html
It scales to the width of the screen, but not the height yet, so you might have to make the window smaller.
- Sun Apr 23, 2017 1:34 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: cnita wins the 2016 Net-Chess Open!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8435
cnita wins the 2016 Net-Chess Open!
Congratulations to cnita for winning the 2016 Net-Chess Open. cnita completed the tournament with 0 losses!
- Tue Mar 14, 2017 9:09 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Happy Pi day
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5874
Happy Pi day
And a happy 18th birthday to net-chess.com.
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:31 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: password
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6303
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 8:03 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: login problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24484
Re: login problem
Seen similar things usually caused by an ad blocker or something similar blocking cookies. You might also try changing your password and remove the space at the end.
- Fri Feb 10, 2017 5:35 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: login problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24484
Re: login problem
No, somethings up with your browser. You can try deleting your cookies, try a different computer or browser.
- Tue Feb 07, 2017 8:14 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: login problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24484
Re: login problem
The password is the old one with 44 and a space appended.
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:19 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: login problem
- Replies: 11
- Views: 24484
Re: login problem
Looks like your password was changed recently. It's the same as it was before, but with 44 added to the end of it.
- Sun Feb 05, 2017 10:12 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Site newcomer or potential danger...?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11352
Re: Site newcomer or potential danger...?
Finally had to add a simple captcha to the join form. Hopefully it'll be enough to slow them down.
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:34 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: unable to login
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9546
Re: unable to login
You can use the forgot password link:
http://www.net-chess.com/emailpw.html
http://www.net-chess.com/emailpw.html
- Sun Jan 22, 2017 12:08 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Having an "Abort" feature
- Replies: 2
- Views: 10363
Re: Having an "Abort" feature
I've seen this abused quite a bit on FICS. People use it to abort games when they don't like the opening move, or as an alternate method of filtering players by rating when there's already a method to do that.
- Sat Jan 07, 2017 10:33 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Download Yearly PGNs
- Replies: 36
- Views: 63995
Re: Download Yearly PGNs
It's there now.
- Thu Jan 05, 2017 9:53 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: RATING PERFORMANCE GRAPH
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8884
Re: RATING PERFORMANCE GRAPH
It's your entire rating history. If you were rated 1000 and won a game against a 1400 player, and years later were rated 2000 and lost against a 2400 player, those two scores are averaged together for the +400 point on the graph.
- Tue Dec 20, 2016 10:47 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: You can now join the 2017 Tournament
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10614
You can now join the 2017 Tournament
You can now join the 2017 tournament using the link from the home page:
http://www.net-chess.com/tournament2017/
The tournament will start in February.
http://www.net-chess.com/tournament2017/
The tournament will start in February.
- Thu Dec 01, 2016 5:37 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Net-chess open round 3 2016
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11696
Net-chess open round 3 2016
Round 3 will start on Dec 4.
- Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:16 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: I have just won my first tournament.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13434
Re: I have just won my first tournament.
19 out of 19! Show a little mercy.
- Mon Nov 21, 2016 2:17 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: *Donation*
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15299
Re: *Donation*
Actually, I do have it, just haven't made it to the bank yet.
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 11:28 pm
- Forum: Miscellaneous
- Topic: Donald and Hillary walk into a bar
- Replies: 2
- Views: 19518
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:54 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: *Donation*
- Replies: 5
- Views: 15299
Re: *Donation*
Donations are very much appreciated. The hosting for the site costs $70/mo, and I can't remember the last time I got a donation.
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 9:50 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: How long are challenges available?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6699
Re: How long are challenges available?
They're deleted after 14 days if it doesn't get enough people to start.
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 4:26 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Same Old Beef
- Replies: 31
- Views: 46936
Re: Same Old Beef
Been thinking of some ways to penalize this differently. Currently thinking of either flagging a game as abandoned, and the user has to make a move in that game if it's thier move before they can move in any other games. And/or flagging a user as abandoning a game, so they have to always move in the...
- Fri Aug 19, 2016 7:27 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Playing Against Our Net-Chess Server Engine ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16193
Re: Playing Against Our Net-Chess Server Engine ?
It'll never recognize the three move repetition rule since the engine doesn't know the history of the game beyond the current position. Every time you move it just loads the position with your move and begins analyzing it. But you know you got a draw. Promotion should work, I'll have to look into it...
- Tue Aug 16, 2016 8:30 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Playing Against Our Net-Chess Server Engine ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16193
Re: Playing Against Our Net-Chess Server Engine ?
Yea, you can use as much time as you want, the seconds per move is just for the engine's time limit. The engine is the GNU Chess Engine.
- Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:30 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Round 2 of the 2016 Net-Chess Open
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14939
Re: Round 2 of the 2016 Net-Chess Open
It'll actually have to start tomorrow.
- Sun Jul 17, 2016 7:10 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Rating floor turned off by default
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16308
Re: Rating floor turned off by default
Of the about 1000 users who've logged in in the past 30 days, only 19 of them have ratings within 25 points of their rating floor. No doubt that it does account for some rating inflation, but the overall factor is people starting games then leaving the site. Disabling the rating floor probably would...
- Wed Jul 13, 2016 7:49 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Rating floor turned off by default
- Replies: 3
- Views: 16308
Re: Rating floor turned off by default
The rating floor is turned off for new users by default, only users from many, many years ago had it default to on. I was going to get rid of it completely but a lot of people complained. But that's not what's responsible for the higher than average ratings for players here, it's people who start ga...
- Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:27 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Round 2 of the 2016 Net-Chess Open
- Replies: 1
- Views: 14939
Round 2 of the 2016 Net-Chess Open
Round 2 will start July 17
- Mon Jun 20, 2016 8:11 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: king and bishop against lone king
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8308
Re: king and bishop against lone king
Technically, nothing should be called automatically, you have to ask the TD (me) to declare it a draw. I only implemented automatic judgement for the few things that happen fairly regularly, checkmate, time-outs, stalemate, three move repetition. So far I don't think anyone has had to ask me to forc...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:12 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24912
Re: Changes for mobile devices
The 'X' is actually the same size for each, the difference is I used the word "Del" in the followed games header that makes the table cell bigger, but the place you click is exactly the same size. I do plan on replacing it with something else (don't know what yet), but I can't see making it bigger. ...
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 8:34 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24912
Re: Changes for mobile devices
And the "small screen" version:
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 8:33 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24912
Re: Changes for mobile devices
This is how things should look:
- Wed Jun 08, 2016 8:29 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24912
Re: Changes for mobile devices
The 'X' "should" be at least as big as check boxes on other forms on other sites. And the only changes in the main screen "should" be that there's less whitespace between the main content and right sidebar, the main content is a little bit narrower (e.g. "dismiss" replaced with 'X', years removed fr...
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 8:26 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24912
Re: Changes for mobile devices
What browser are you using, and version? It's not supposed to look like that.
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 10:40 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24912
Re: Changes for mobile devices
Depends, what do you consider ugly about it? I don't plan on any drastic changes soon.
- Mon Jun 06, 2016 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: What happened to Rating History, Greg?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10027
Re: What happened to Rating History, Greg?
I fixed the rating history page. As far as the main page goes, define 'narrow'. It is a little bit less wide than it used to be, but the only big change is that the two sidebars are centered next to the main content rather than all the way to the edge of the window. That was done mainly for aestheti...
- Thu Jun 02, 2016 10:56 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Updates to better support mobile devices
- Replies: 0
- Views: 9721
Updates to better support mobile devices
I've been making some changes to make the website work better on mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc). So you may notice some formatting changes even for the desktop site. The changes are being done incrementally rather than all at once, and you'll probably notice a lot of changes as the days go by...
- Sat May 21, 2016 11:51 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Rating
- Replies: 5
- Views: 20124
Re: Rating
It uses the Elo system which is pretty much the same used everywhere else. The provisional rating period (up until your 20th game) is based on the average of rating of all of your opponents, and your winning percentage. E.g. If you draw against a 1500 player, your rating will be 1500, if you beat or...
- Tue Apr 26, 2016 11:20 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Congratulations to ramawolf for winning the 2015 Open
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8909
Congratulations to ramawolf for winning the 2015 Open
A big congratulations to ramawolf for winning the 2015 Net-Chess Open! You can view the results and replay the games on the tournament page.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 9:31 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The Famed "Zap Stick"?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6907
Re: The Famed "Zap Stick"?
So it's your fault. Not sure exactly what happened, just a lot of hung Apache processes I had to kill.
- Mon Mar 14, 2016 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Happy 17th birthday net-chess.com
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17347
Happy 17th birthday net-chess.com
Happy 17th birthday net-chess.com
- Mon Mar 07, 2016 9:03 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Chess.com vs I.C.C.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13278
Re: Chess.com vs I.C.C.
ICC is pretty much the same as freechess.org. They run basically the same software and were the same community at one point, then split back in the 90's when ICC started charging money. I used to be a paying member of ICC, but switched to freechess.org when ICC did a massive rate hike about 5 or so ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2016 8:39 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: The 2016 Net-Chess Open will start Feb 15
- Replies: 0
- Views: 7727
The 2016 Net-Chess Open will start Feb 15
Make sure to sign up if you haven't already.
- Fri Jan 29, 2016 9:21 am
- Forum: Puzzles and Game Comentary
- Topic: Shredder and Chess Puzzles
- Replies: 3
- Views: 21666
Re: Shredder and Chess Puzzles
Depends on what you mean by "not being able to handle them". It might find a mate in three or four and stop looking, but it should still find a mate. But it's not uncommon for an engine to stop searching when it finds any forced mate, not necessarily the one in the least number of moves.
- Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:18 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Download Yearly PGNs
- Replies: 36
- Views: 63995
Re: Download Yearly PGNs
The 2015 archive is available now:
http://www.net-chess.com/aarchive.html
http://www.net-chess.com/aarchive.html
- Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:43 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: Round 3 of the 2015 Net-Chess Open
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8482
Re: Round 3 of the 2015 Net-Chess Open
Round 3 will be started tomorrow just due to my lack of time to get everything in order tonight.