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- Thu Apr 25, 2019 4:30 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Login Problems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8377
Re: Login Problems
We have had some recent issues with the database going down, but that should not result in the error you're seeing below. If you can get to the forum to post a message, you shouldn't be getting network errors on other parts of the site. Employers usually block this site since it's a gaming site, so...
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 4:10 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Login Problems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 8377
Login Problems
Currently I have login issues. Network Error (tcp_error) A communication error occurred: "" The Web Server may be down, too busy, or experiencing other problems preventing it from responding to requests. You may wish to try again at a later time. For assistance, contact your network support team. As...
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 4:14 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24433
Re: Changes for mobile devices
I see - it has been intended by you this way. Ok - on a second thought it seems reasonable to consider mobile devices. Great work :wink: . Dinosaurs like me just have to adapt or become extinct. (Ah, I'm not sooo dinosaur, you know? I'm even using my smart phone excessively ... but never to play che...
- Tue Jun 07, 2016 2:56 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Changes for mobile devices
- Replies: 9
- Views: 24433
Re: Changes for mobile devices
Well ... I can't scold Greg because he gives us this great chess site for free - and he upholds this service since ages (in today's short-lived times). But I have to second cborri . On my Windows 7 / Firefox 46.01 the home page doesn't look pretty anymore. All content is squeezed into the middle. Bu...
- Mon Nov 30, 2015 3:02 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Problems Loading Net-Chess
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8570
Problems Loading Net-Chess
Well - I see nothing posted here. So I guess I've been the only one experiencing this problem: I wasn't able to reach the site - neither net-chess.com nor slowchess.com in the time from Thursday to Sunday. Since I tried it from 3 different devices the fault has to be with my provider. Or did anyone ...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 4:28 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2015 tournament
- Replies: 47
- Views: 84875
Re: 2015 tournament
I definitely check the forum too seldom. I nearly missed this very funny thread.
My guess would be that dontcare is Greg's new account with which he tries to create some entertaining value in the forum. Well done! I can't wait to see carealot enter the discussion.
My guess would be that dontcare is Greg's new account with which he tries to create some entertaining value in the forum. Well done! I can't wait to see carealot enter the discussion.
- Wed Sep 10, 2014 7:00 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Site Championship
- Replies: 6
- Views: 17443
Re: 2014 Site Championship
Oh! I didn't check the forum for some time.
David, play it easy and relax. I hope you see better days soon!
David, play it easy and relax. I hope you see better days soon!
- Wed Jul 02, 2014 1:29 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10870
Re: 2014 Tournament
It's decided now. Greg, let's start round 2! I'm in dire need of some games.
- Wed Jun 25, 2014 2:37 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10870
Re: 2014 Tournament
Yeah Greg. Of course you're right. The given game really seems to imply that Bonaparte doesn't want to play in round 2 anyway.
- Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:21 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 2014 Tournament
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10870
2014 Tournament
I'm eager for the 2nd round to start so I'm checking the ongoing matches from time to time. It can't have escaped your attention that there's only one relevant match left: http://www.slowchess.com/viewgame.cgi?p1=g1105181555 After analysing this game for some seconds it's obvious that this is an eas...
- Fri Mar 21, 2014 5:44 am
- Forum: Chess Ladder
- Topic: cheating
- Replies: 4
- Views: 40856
Re: cheating
1. Why do you care?
2. Rating is based on probabilities. So you are right: It's more probable for him to win. But the impact of a loss is higher, too. If the rating system is sound that doesn't matter at all.
2. Rating is based on probabilities. So you are right: It's more probable for him to win. But the impact of a loss is higher, too. If the rating system is sound that doesn't matter at all.
- Wed Feb 05, 2014 2:44 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Donations
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6082
Donations
After 7 years and nearly 300 games on this site I was thinking that it would be time to show my support for Greg with a small donation. But after seeing the somewhat desolated *Donations* page I'm not sure if this page has been updated in the last 10 years. And so I'm either not sure if donations vi...
- Mon Feb 03, 2014 3:41 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: What have happen with Net-Chess?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 32554
Re: What have happen with Net-Chess?
Hello everyone.What have happen With net-chess?nothing?For me it seems so dead and almost the same layout like when i use to be here ten years ago.I dont want to be negative but just remember how mutch life there was on forum before With guys like jjones and mluka and so on.I know about jjones,real...
- Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:35 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Apologies from Canada
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9865
Re: Apologies from Canada
BTW: The only Canadians that matter to me are Dan Beehler and Murray Acton (aka "The Cretin"). Ah ... and perhaps Steve Nash.
- Fri Jan 31, 2014 5:32 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Apologies from Canada
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9865
Re: Apologies from Canada
... Just watching the news, and it finally made me think that on behalf of all sane Canadians, I feel obligated to apologize for the existence of Justin Bieber and Rob Ford. Believe me, they are certainly NOT a true representation of Canada! ... Hmm ... who are Justin Bieber and Rob Ford? I guess s...
- Tue Jan 14, 2014 3:40 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Domain slowchess.com expired
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7675
Re: Domain slowchess.com expired
It's the hyphen! At least on German keyboard layout this hyphen is in a remote corner.
- Mon Jan 13, 2014 8:49 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Domain slowchess.com expired
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7675
Domain slowchess.com expired
Hi Greg,
I suppose you are aware that the domain has expired?
(Imagine me being shocked when seeing this:)
NOTICE: This domain name expired on 1/12/2014 and is pending renewal or deletion.
I suppose you are aware that the domain has expired?
(Imagine me being shocked when seeing this:)
NOTICE: This domain name expired on 1/12/2014 and is pending renewal or deletion.
- Sun Sep 09, 2012 4:52 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Unergonomic Behaviour
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13711
Re: Unergonomic Behaviour
Well - of course: You can be sure that this won't happen to me ever again. But I always think: If I behave awkwardly in any situation this could happen to anybody else as well. Hence my proposal to change the behaviour. The castle thing is already explained in the text. But well - it was only a sugg...
- Sat Sep 08, 2012 6:30 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Unergonomic Behaviour
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13711
Unergonomic Behaviour
You could say: Your own mistake ... but indeed I think you could improve the user interface: In g1105115149 I was thinking about my 22. move. After some considering I had the idea of 22...Rf8f4 - so I entered the move but I did not press the move button. I was thinking: Let's do a double check. So I...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:15 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 30d+5d Match
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4832
30d+5d Match
Dear net-chessers, in the course of the last months I had somewhat to fight to make my moves in time in a 30d+2d match. Job, family and other obligations stole a lot of my spare time. So I started an open 30d+5d match for 10 players some days ago. Obviously it doesn't fill as fast as I thought. So: ...
- Thu Jan 26, 2012 3:08 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: The new forum
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17700
Sticky!
Since some of the new functions of the new board are explained here: Couldn't you make this very thread sticky?
- Sat May 14, 2011 3:07 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Problem with Removing Games from Game List
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9563
Again :-(
g1105057333 ended on 2011-05-02 and is still in the list.
- Tue May 03, 2011 8:13 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Problem with Removing Games from Game List
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9563
Problem with Removing Games from Game List
If I'm not completely mistaken finished games used to get removed daily from the games list (command.cgi?command=mygames).
But it seems that the script doing this is broken. I've got a finished game that ended on 2011-04-20 that is still listed there.
But it seems that the script doing this is broken. I've got a finished game that ended on 2011-04-20 that is still listed there.
- Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:14 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: DB broken?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11627
Thanks Greg!
You reacted quickly as ever!
Thanks Greg!
Thanks Greg!
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 4:03 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: DB broken?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11627
Chess Tactics Server
In the meantime I'm wasting my time on the Chess Tactics Server.
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:54 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: DB broken?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11627
Re: same here
I'm so glad that I'm not alone in my miserycapacuba wrote:your not alone Joelag...same here. can not connect to net-chess site
- Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:56 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: DB broken?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11627
DB broken?
What's up? I can't login to Net-Chess. Message: Invalid username or password! Forgot your password? Click here. Most funny thing: When I try just for testing to click here and enter my user name I'm getting told that joelag does not exist . Bad luck! Just this evening I was about to make some moves ...
- Sun Oct 03, 2010 4:00 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Vacation
- Replies: 24
- Views: 27626
No Need for Vacations
First let me admit that I've been confused after my first exploring of this site when I detected that there wouldn't be a rule or option for vacations. But the solution is quite easy. Indeed you can have vacations as long as you want by using the proper time control: Let it be that x days + y days p...
- Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:16 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Missing Matches
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9717
Tournament has been restarted
Obviously we lost more than the last day before the crash. The tournament I mentioned earlier has started now (again). Obviously the tournament was restored to a state when not all participants had entered. So, when the last participant entered it started (again). But all ok for me - as I stated bef...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:37 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Missing Matches
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9717
No Email
I fixed the slowchess.com URL, it should work for everyone in the next hour. Joelag, do you have the e-mail showing the match started? Or can you get me some game IDs and/or the match ID. They should have been restored if they were active as of Jul 30. Hey Greg, nice try :wink: But as stated in the...
- Tue Aug 10, 2010 5:15 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Missing Matches
- Replies: 5
- Views: 9717
Missing Matches
First of all: Great work Greg ! I know the crash hasn't been your fault and I knew, too, that you'll bring the site up again as good and fast as possible. This is the most stable CC site I know and it's even for free. Thank you, Greg! But there is an issue which alters from what you announced. I pla...
- Thu Jul 29, 2010 4:12 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: not receiving email notifications
- Replies: 7
- Views: 12881
No Changing of E-Mail Adress either
I've not been able to change the e-mail adress for the forum, either. But I'm not sure if this ever has worked at all.
And I didn't see new topics marked as new.
Poor Greg! Seems there's some work to do at the moment.
And I didn't see new topics marked as new.
Poor Greg! Seems there's some work to do at the moment.
- Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:50 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Real Rankings instead of the "All Ratings" list
- Replies: 8
- Views: 34346
That thought has crossed my mind several times, but in the end I always come to the conclusion that you really shouldn't care that much about your rating. That's why I like Net-Chess the most! Greg is so relaxed with so silly issues like rating (and computer cheating) and time outs. You can complic...
- Sun Apr 19, 2009 2:35 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Support for XFCC
- Replies: 6
- Views: 28826
PGN is a Fine Standard!
As far as I'm concerned I haven't any need for it at all. I was thinking the hype about converting anything into XML would already be abating. Since Net-Chess perfectly supports PGN (at least after I hinted Greg to avoid the zeroes for castling about 2 years ago :D ) which is a standard which is und...
- Sun Mar 15, 2009 7:32 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: 10 years and still running
- Replies: 11
- Views: 18125
Congratulations!
Net-Chess is the best. No-frills, just chess!
Greg, keep up with the fantastic work!
CU, Joe
Greg, keep up with the fantastic work!
CU, Joe
- Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:45 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Repeat & Continual time-out offenders poll: Penalization
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6821
Great Poll!
Great poll!
Well, I've voted: It's not really that important.
As I stated before there are too few players for which those suggestions really would matter anyway. So I advise: Don't fuss about those games. Just play the games in which it's your turn.
CU, Joe
Well, I've voted: It's not really that important.
As I stated before there are too few players for which those suggestions really would matter anyway. So I advise: Don't fuss about those games. Just play the games in which it's your turn.
CU, Joe
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 6:14 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Penalize Repeat Time Out Offenders?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9511
The Art of Creating a Poll
Well, maybe I am a bit old fashioned. But I always have been thinking in a poll you have to give one question ( condition 1 ) and a number of n possible answers - let's say a1 ... an ( condition 2 ). Further - I'd even say ideally - the intersection of a1 ... an should be empty ( condition 3 ) and t...
- Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:47 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: reward timeouts
- Replies: 9
- Views: 39628
Yahoo has it so that there are two timers, one for the game and one per move. Let's say the timer is 30 minutes + 10 seconds per move, with a maximum timer of 10 minutes per move. We could implement something similar, such as if you do not move in 10 days, you automatically forfeit regardless of ho...
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 8:25 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: players profiles
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10746
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: players profiles
- Replies: 6
- Views: 10746
Re: players profiles
Or you just click them on the upper or lower left corner of the chess board. (Click the one which doesn't read yraba)yraba wrote:How can I see the profile of the people I am playing with already?
Thank you in advance for your assistance
CU, Joe
- Sat Feb 28, 2009 4:28 pm
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: PGN DOWNLOAD
- Replies: 2
- Views: 14017
No problem (Re: PGN DOWNLOAD)
Is it possible to download a game to the computer to be analyzed? Today the only way to do so is by coping move by move, or am I wrong? Yes. I think so. That is: yes for your first question, I think so for the second. :wink: There's a link called View PGN Move List . i.e. http://www.slowchess.com/c...
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:42 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: "My Pet Peeve"
- Replies: 14
- Views: 20540
King against 5 Queens
Maybe we should just start posting regular offenders' names in the forum...? :?: Generelly I'd say you shouldn't do this. But at the moment I'm really quite tempted to pillory 2 chess masters :? One of them is continueing with his King against my queen and 4 pawns on a board without any stalemate p...
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:20 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Should you ever resign?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 43873
I agree!
... Personally I don´t mind that behaviour because won positions aren´t too interesting for me. It doesn´t matter if I must play them or not. BLACKBARON doesn´t steal my time or my effort, he only shows bad losership (and that´s not my problem). It´s him who has a lost position for weeks and ...
- Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:09 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Limited tourney exclusions for forfeit abusers/new accounts
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7015
Wise policy
It's just something I've learned to accept as something that's unavoidable. That's so wise! I'm glad that Greg follows such a wise policy! If you can't prevent something effectively just ignore it. Why care at all? Let's say you start a tournament with 10 participants. 2 time out before move # 10 -...
- Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:18 pm
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: ELO rating in Net-Chess
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9367
Playing against myself?
Playing against myself? I'd never dare! I would feel so vexed if I'd lose against such a poor player as myself!gmiller wrote:I don't like to publish the list very often, because it encourages people to manipulate their rating by playing games against themselves...
- Tue Dec 30, 2008 6:17 am
- Forum: General Forum
- Topic: Should you ever resign?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 43873
Senseless Poll
Should you ever resign? This is the most senseless poll I've ever seen on Net-Chess.Com . What is this poll about? There are 2 options. Both options are questions (btw I'd have to answer both with yes ). Am I supposed to vote for the question with the most vowels? But since I'm a polite man I still...
- Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:06 am
- Forum: Puzzles and Game Comentary
- Topic: Promotion to bishop
- Replies: 7
- Views: 35045
Underpromotion in Games
When I read gregorgysi's question I recalled that I once stumbled over an appropriate web site.
I've found it again:
Underpromotion in Games by Tim Krabbé
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/minor.htm
CU, Joe
I've found it again:
Underpromotion in Games by Tim Krabbé
http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess2/minor.htm
CU, Joe
- Wed Aug 08, 2007 3:30 pm
- Forum: Puzzles and Game Comentary
- Topic: "Going for Mate" an unusual original puzzle
- Replies: 2
- Views: 18324
Re: Going for Mate
Hmm Amir,
the first part has been an easy one:
But the 2nd part? A forced mate? That has been a tricky one:
1. Rh8 Kd5 2. Rh5 Ke4 3. Rh1 Kd5 4. Rd1+ Ke4 5. Re1 Kd5 6. e4#
CU, Joe
the first part has been an easy one:
But the 2nd part? A forced mate? That has been a tricky one:
1. Rh8 Kd5 2. Rh5 Ke4 3. Rh1 Kd5 4. Rd1+ Ke4 5. Re1 Kd5 6. e4#
CU, Joe
- Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:32 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Minor Drawbacks in My-Games-Table
- Replies: 3
- Views: 17221
- Wed Jun 27, 2007 11:43 am
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: Minor Drawbacks in My-Games-Table
- Replies: 3
- Views: 17221
Re: Minor Drawbacks in My-Games-Table
Lexicographically: 1. the writing, editing, or compiling of dictionaries. 2. the principles and procedures involved in writing, editing, or compiling dictionaries. You sure that's the way you wanted to use the word?! П Sorry, maybe that's been a Germanism :?: . But at least it's described in the E...