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Put 4 in the number of players and it'll start when it's full.

Looking at your two losses, they both went to 60 moves, you started with 75 days and your opponent used about 40 days = 115 days of think time available to you. Or just about 1 move every two days.

The three move rule is automatic. The mistake a lot of people make is thinking that because the board looks the same three times, that counts as a three move repetition, but it has to be the same state: same position, same player to move, same en-passent status.

Using computer analysis isn't allowed for games here at net-chess. I can't imagine any reason for allowing it. Sure, some people might cheat, but if you want to know you're playing a computer you can just play against your own.

I don't think those numbers are bad. Sure there used to be a lot more games played, but we still had almost 40,000 games last year, that's no small feet.

The number of users were multiplied by 10 to show some scale.

Thought I'd share some statistics about the activity on the site.

Blue - Total number of games finished that year
Green - Total number of games finished that year not including time outs under 10 moves
Red - Total number of new users joining that year

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Until your time runs out. The warnings are only to remind people they're playing games.

He has a lot of time remaining, but it's not displayed correctly on the game page:
http://www.net-chess.com/command.cgi?co ... interjuice

FICS is back after a couple of weeks off-line.

Don't hack freechess.org.

Munbehend has withdrawn, the pairings have been updated.

Round 2 of the 2013 Net-Chess Open will start on Jul 21
Pairings are on the tournament page.

It might be too big, you might try resizing it to something in the range of 800x600 pixels at most.

Thanks. I've changed it to just to show white/black time remaining and removed any logic to order them differently.

I can understand the frustration. Thanks for the games you did post.

The colors are assigned completely at random, then alternate for additional games against the same opponent. Yea, it could be better, but the only real way to be fair is to play an even number of games against each opponent.

That's supposedly how the Sagarin ratings work, and certainly how betting odds are calculated, but the algorithms aren't disclosed. They'll also take things into account such as home court advantage, if a player's recently been injured or coming back, even if key players were pulled out due to a big...

I've fixed it. Thanks for pointing it out.

I've upgraded some server components that caused some issues for about 30 minutes earlier today. If you still see anything that doesn't look right, please report it in the forum.

[pgn][Event "m1362336451"] [Site "net-chess.com"] [White "martijn"] [Black "attasantotjia"] [Result "1-0"] [Game "g1105147120"] {ECO CODE: C36: King's Gambit Accepted} 1.e4 e5 2.f4 d5 {The Falkbeer Counter-Gambit; this counter-gambit was played inh the 19th centutry and gained popularity through the...

Yea, the concept of "warning" is that you may have forgotten about it. You can use all the time on your clock.

[pgn][Event "m1226285294"] [Site "net-chess.com"] [Date "2008.12.14"] [Round "1"] [White "davidswhite"] [Black "cleenders"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "3000"] [BlackElo "2868"] [Game "g1104944890"] [ECO Code "C82: Open Ruy Lopez: 9.c3 without 9...Be7"] {This game is typical of the Open Ruy Lopez, it g...

Net-Chess turns 14 today.

What Energy says is mostly right, if your opponent's rating goes up, you'll get more points. Of course, this is assuming your own rating doesn't change, if yours goes down you'll get even more, but if it had gone up you might get less. But the actual number is usually not significant in practice, an...

That's what rating floors are supposed to stop.

[pgn][Event "m1068411367"] [Site "net-chess.com"] [Date "2003.12.10"] [Round "1"] [White "davidswhite"] [Black "angelofthenight"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [WhiteElo "2972"] [BlackElo "2778"] [Game "g1068411367"] {ECO Code: C99: Closed Ruy Lopez: Chigorin Defense: 11.d4 Qc7 12.Nbd2 cxd4 This game is a grea...

Timeouts are a pain, but you just have to learn to ignore them. If someone is refusing to move in a completely lost position, I'll reduce the time down so it's over quickly. But I think most of the timeouts are due to people signing up and deciding they don't really want to play.

Congratulations to co-champions Munbehend and Davidswhite for winning the 2012 Net-Chess Open!

I have considered writing an Android app, but since I don't own any Apple products I wouldn't be writing one for the iPhone.

I restored your rating to what it was before the timeouts.

[pgn][Event "m1267142972"] [Site "net-chess.com"] [Date "2010.03.26"] [Round "1"] [White "martijn"] [Black "iamachessstudent"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2813"] [BlackElo "2771"] [Game "g1105022081"] {ECO CODE: A60; Modern Benoni, early divergences} 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 {the Benoni Defense} 3.d5 e6 4.Nc3...

Thanks. Looks pretty good. A couple of suggestions for future posts: 1. surround your comments with brackets { }. This makes your post valid PGN so people can copy it into their favorite chess database to play through it and analyze it. 2. Castling is O-O [the letter O], rather than the number 0. Ag...

[pgn][Event "m1260019876"] [Site "net-chess.com"] [Date "2010.01.15"] [Round "1"] [White "iamachessstudent"] [Black "martijn"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "2676"] [BlackElo "2776"] [Game "g1105007686"] {ECO Code: E32: Nimzo-Indian, classical (4.Qc2) This first game is against one of my closest friends ...

There isn't a way. You could just register with a new name.

You can sign up for the 2013 tournament using the link on the left from the home page. Notice I've done away with the +15d after 50 moves and will just be starting all games with 75d of think time. Finalists from the 2012 tournament will receive a bye in to round 2, but still need to register for th...

I've created the entry form so people can sign up now. It'll probably start in late Feb.

I've added them.

You still get notifications of games starting and finishing. You just don't get notifications of moves. If you don't want any notifications at all, you can just put in an invalid e-mail address.

Once a match starts, you can't unjoin it.

The error means the server wasn't able to make sense of the move you submitted. I see several instances in the log where you submitted empty moves, which is probably where you were getting the error. When you make a move on the board, the move box on the right should get automatically populated with...

Thanks. I've never had it as a goal to make every single person happy, a couple of squeaky wheels don't bother me.

Round 3 of the 2012 Net-Chess Open will start Oct 7, all of the relevant games should be completed by then.

The only reason I give people the option to press "OK" to commit the move anyway is that a lot of people move their king and rook when castling so they can actually see the resulting position.

The server has been having issues throughout the day, and I believe they're resolved now. No data has been lost. If you have trouble connecting to the server, it's possible it's crashed again and the problem isn't really resolved. In which case you may have to wait a few hours before it's back up.

The server has been having issues all day. I am working with the hosting provider to resolve it. If you can get to the forum, you should be able to get to the rest of the site.

code writing is a lot like chess in that you have to know the solution before you can construct the problem for the other guy to attempt to solve

Make sure you're logged on to the right URL. If you access the site as www.slowchess.com, or don't have the www in front of net-chess.com you'll need to modify the URL above to match whatever you use, or log in to www.net-chess.com.

You can use this URL to add time for your opponents in any of your games:
http://www.net-chess.com/addtime.cgi

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