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This online chess game is new but we already have some ideas to improve it in the future.

Let's have a look at some of them:

  • Correcting the bugs that could arise
  • Playing on the website
  • Adding a forum
  • Letting users pause a game
  • Password remembering (if asked)
  • Asynchronous games
  • An option panel
  • Improving the general web site aspect
  • ...and so much more!

If you find a bug while you're playing or if you have new ideas we could implement, contact us.

Version 0.9.6.1 (publication date: 11/03/2009)

What's new (chess game) :

  • After an official game, the black player stats were not updated if the white player was already listed in the ratings.
  • Whe you move a piece, you will now hear a sound

What's new (web site) :

  • The page is not refreshed every minute anymore, but its content is updated in without reloading the whole page (every 30 seconds)
  • The graphs are now translated in English if needed
  • The diagram "Elo score evolution" wasn't correct
  • The FAQ entry : I can't connect to the game, what should I do? has been updated
  • There is a new task bar in the lower part of the site that allow you to show/hide the search bar and will notify you when you have new messages

Version 0.9.6.0 (publication date : January the 2, 2009)

What's new (chess game) :

  • The game is more stable, we now store the results by transactions to make sure everything is always consistant
  • You can play the game in Turkish (thanks to hayalperest for the translation!)
  • An online music player is now available on the game (www.Jamendo.com)
  • When a player cancels a game after having captured all his/her opponent pieces, it is now considered a draw
  • A draw can now be declared if both players agree on it
  • All the players and guests in a game are notified if an administrator cancel the game
  • New options in the game: choose the way messages are formated in the chat, activate/deactivate the "nudges" in the chat
  • The list of all previous games was not ordered
  • At the end of an official game, there was a slight delay before it could be seen in the game history
  • The users list didn't refresh automatically any more if you left the tab
  • The system didn't prevent 2 players to accept the same contract exactly at the same time, which would then cause a lot of problems
  • When setting the options of a new contract, a negative fisher could be set
  • When trying to switch the username without restarting the game, it exited but still resided in memory, wasting some space for nothing
  • Sometimes (it was very uncommon, but it did happen) the connexion to the server failed without giving any error message
  • You can now insert new lines when writing text in the chat by pressing alt+enter, shift+enter or ctrl+enter
  • The /NUDGE command was not limited (while the graphical version was)
  • The chat area has been improved
  • All actions in the chat now give an error message when they fail to execute (thus explaining to you why you cannot do that specific action at that specific time)
  • A ghost chatroom could appear after some manipulations (/INVITE and /QUIT)
  • When the chat area was showing more than 100 characters, a frame appeared
  • You cannot invite your opponent in a new chatroom while you play against him/her (this caused the game chat to close)
  • You could rename a chat with a name already in use by another chat
  • Trying to enter a chatroom you are already connected to doesn't start a new tab any more (it just switches to the open tab)
  • The name of a private chatroom is now the name of the chat owner, not the name of the other user
  • The link "s'inscrire" (register) in the French client is now routed to the correct address

What's new (web site) :

  • The server can now handle more requests simultaneously and is more responsive
  • The site design should now work the same on all internet browsers (mobile phone browsers excepted)
  • There is now a RSS flux for you to get the latest news concerning Chess-Mind.com
  • New page: home; this page displays the 3 latest news, the top 10 players, the currently connected users, the available defies, the currently playing games and the chatrooms open in the game
  • You can now watch a game directly on the site in real time
  • News page and home page are now separate
  • On the profile page, the 10 latest games were not correctly reported (thanks to Lyon, who reported the bug)
  • A new search bar is now visible on the site, with a real time auto-complete mode
  • The page "game details" has been updated
  • In the score page, you can now filter by country or number of games
  • New page: make a donation
  • New page: donation list
  • New page: updates; this page lists the score corrections we had to do
  • New graphics:
    • Elo score evolution of a player
    • Chess-Mind users' countries histogram
    • Population pyramid
    • Players' level graphics
  • New page: statistics; this page lists some graphics
  • The profile page now has some graphics to show the evolution of the player
  • A sitemap is now available for Chess-Mind.com
  • The administrator can now moderate the users' profiles, send a newsletter, start the cheat detection, cancel suspicious games, correct the scores, and all of this directly from the website!
  • If a new registration is not validated before 24 hours, it will be discarded (and the login name will be available again)
  • The visitors count was not reliable

Version 0.9.5.0 (publication date: March the 17, 2008)

What's new (game):

  • When a player made his/her move at the last second, he was declared winner!
  • It is not possible to do a castling when your king is checked anymore!
  • The contrcat window has been redesigned
  • The content of the «welcome» panel is not truncated anymore
  • The date at the end of a game was not correctly displayed in the game history
  • The game chat area has been optimized
  • Spectators won't see «Your opponent doesn't want to play against you anymore, the game has been cancelled» anymore
  • When you leave the chat pane with the /QUIT command, the text areas are now graphically disabled
  • Now, when you tried to type a non-authorized command in the chat, a message notifies you why it didn't work
  • You can now switch the language when you connect to the game
  • Saving a game to the fen format didn't work as expected after a castling or en passant
  • Saving a game now works on Linux, too
  • Saving a game to the fen or pgn format when you play against the computer (Tiffanys) is now possible
  • When you stop a game while playing against Tiffanys, your computer stops thinking about the current move

What's new (web site):

  • Played games list added
  • You can now review your played games
  • The number of unread messages is now noted right next to «My messages» in the left menu
  • The FAQ page has been completely redone
  • The Elo System page is now available in English, too
  • The website background under IE6 now looks better (some other small glitches with this this specific browser have been corrected, too)
  • The ratings now conforms to the description when 2 players have the same Elo score.
    FAQ reference: What happens when 2 players have the same Elo score?

Version 0.9.4.2 (publication date: December the 8, 2007)

What's new (game):

  • You can now save your game as pgn or fen!
  • Tiffanys was updated to version 0.4
  • You can now configure Tiffanys level
  • Spectator mode is now more stable
  • Game status (preparing, playing...) is now visible in the games list
  • New game board:
    • Players levels are now represented by a progress bar
    • «Cancel» and «Give up» buttons have been moved in the upper right corner of the game window
    • Captured pieces are visible above the chessboard
    • Some components of the game window can be hidden with a simple click
    • The moves list change accordingly to your location on the past moves mini-chessboard
    • The moves list can be listed in simplified algebraic notation or full algebraic notation
    • The moves are not shown in the chat anymore
  • When a game is over, you can now offer a return game to your opponent
  • When you connect to the game and have running games, those games are automatically shown
  • «Occasional Player» level was divided into multiple classes, like «Experienced Player» and «Advanced Player»
  • Only rated players (8 games or more) are listed in the rating list

What's new (web site):

  • Some design errors have been corrected on the site:
    • The site title, the visitor counter and the login box don't collapse into each other anymore when the window is shrunk too much
    • The site now offer a better view under Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

Version 0.9.4.1 (publication date : October the 3rd, 2007)

What's new (game):

  • Graphical User Interface redone
  • New pop-ups on the lower left corner (near the clock) inform you when something happen in the game
  • A new A.I. engine (Tiffany's)
  • Better interpretation of the castling rules
  • A bug on the chrono has been corrected
  • Buddy list improved
  • Nudges are now limited
  • New smileys box
  • New smileys theme
  • Chat improved (the last selected font is used for the next message)

What's new (web site):

  • Automatic connexion is now working
  • Something new in the profile : native language and contact language
  • New news page, with the top ten players on the front
  • The «ratings» page is more complete and easier to use
  • The «profile» page has been redone (more information about the players and their behaviour, game statistics)
  • The «rules» and «tactics« pages have been completely redone (French only for now)
  • New pages:
    • Registered users list
    • Visitors counter (who is connected on the game, who is on the site?)
    • How are the ratings calculated?
    • Change-log
    • Bug report
    • Contact-us

Version 0.9.3 (publication date: June the 19th, 2007)

What's new:

  • Played games list
  • New notification system in the game
  • New smiley theme in the chatrooms
  • A new, more readable default font
  • An utility to preview how many points you could win or lose against a specific opponent
  • A shortcut on your desktop and in the start menu

Version 0.9.2 (publication date: June the 9th, 2007)

Basic version in test phase (school version)

  • Online chess game
  • Integrated chat in the game
  • Chatrooms can be joined and created
  • Configurable games
  • You can come back to a game after disconnection
  • Played moves viewer integrated
  • Player ratings accordingly to the Elo system