Yotta (1248)    6 days ago

We are pleased to share that some development time has finally opened up in our schedule to work on new features and improvements for ChessConquest.

To get things started, we have already made the following updates:

Fixed profile picture uploads
Added paging to the games archive
Added paging to the forum
Added paging to the tournament pages
Added online indicator
Added avatar icon to toolbar

We would now like to hear from the community.

Please share the two or three most important improvements you would like to see added to ChessConquest. This will help us understand which features matter most to our users and where we should focus our efforts next.

We look forward to your suggestions and appreciate your continued support.

  tjrm (1545)    6 days ago

Like the site a lot. It deserves a great many more players joining up. While I am unsure which features would be most likely to contribute to growth, I think possibly some feature(s) that make it very easy to get the first games of a new member started should considered. For example, what if there was a link to a page where "volunteer" current players were accepting a set number of new-player challenge games, and it showed "taken" and "available" slots for those volunteers?

  guss (2131)    6 days ago

OK, maybe it's me, but what happened to the page that showed the ratings & "last logged in" ?

  Heimenroth (1456)    6 days ago

The "sign out" button has disappeared.

  Yotta (1248)    5 days ago

Sorry about that, we were in the process of improving the toolbar which caused the sign out button to disappear.

You should now see your Avatar icon at the top right of the screen, from where you can access all pages. Please let us know if anything is still missing, or if there is anything else we should take a look at.

For what its worth, we have also fixed a bug that previously prevented users from uploading new avatar images.

  guss (2131)    5 days ago

I have a couple of games that have wrong time controls. Please check your email.

  Yotta (1248)    5 days ago

We will investigate Guss... thank you for reporting the issue.

  jordjy (1153)    4 days ago

The site is very nice in my humble opinion, Yotta but I would recommend that you do not place restrictions on the number of games allowed for newcomers, because imposing restrictions is very unpleasant and would discourage them from participating... I once ran away from ,,,Chess Corner. com,,,,

  ANNA1993 (1184)    4 days ago

my congratulations on the improvement of the site,, many thanks for the job well done by the administrator,,, yes,, yes, a few years ago I also participated in,,Chess Corner.com,, they reduced it to 2 games and I left it, from there I doubt the participation of,, imey ,,, mey,,

  Yotta (1248)    4 days ago

All existing members will continue to enjoy full free access to the site as a thank you for your support over the years.

We have also updated the profile picture upload tool, and I would like to invite everyone to give it a try. When you upload a profile picture, it will now display as a neat round avatar, as you can see from my current picture.

  ku4a (1407)    4 days ago

The profile picture upload tool looks good, Yotta

  tjrm (1545)    3 days ago

I was able to update my profile picture with the latest development. Thank you, and best wishes!

  Yotta (1248)    2 days ago

Board now refreshes automatically while you are waiting for your opponent to move, so you will see when your opponent moved if you keep your browser open on your game.

  ku4a (1407)    1 day ago

Nice looking new "dashboard" or home page, whatever you want to call it.

  Yotta (1248)    1 day ago

Thanks Ku4a... yes... it is the new dashboard. Still tweaking it a bit.

During the next couple of months we will be improving all the pages of ChessConquest to give it a better user experience.

  Aurafarmer (1078)    1 day ago

good new dashboard

  Yotta (1248)    16 hours ago

We have rolled out some major upgrades to the gameplay page.

This is obviously one of the most important pages on the site, so we did our best to make sure everything works as expected before releasing the changes.

If you notice any issues, unexpected behaviour, or have any suggestions for further improvements, please post them here so that we can look into them.

  ku4a (1407)    16 hours ago

Have you given any thought to having a display of pieces captured during a game?

  Yotta (1248)    16 hours ago

Absolutely... we are actually busy working on the feature already.

Will try and release feature today still if time permits.

  Yotta (1248)    15 hours ago

ku4a... captured pieces and material difference is now shown during a game, and when spectators view a game.

  guss (2131)    15 hours ago

i was hoping for that feature, Yotta. Where (or how) do you view the pieces ?

  Yotta (1248)    6 hours ago

Are you using a mobile device Guss? I see on some smaller screens it is not showing the captured pieces and material difference. We will see if we can get that fixed today.

  Yotta (1248)    2 hours ago

Guss, we have now fixed the missing captured pieces on certain devices. If you still cannot see the captured pieces, please let me know and we'll investigate further.