The beta system has been updated with membership data through about 3AM on 9/25.
A lot of program updates have been deployed as well. This should include a fix for the problem with the floating chess pieces graphics that mostly affects older computers, so if you’ve had problems with that, please test and let us know ASAP. (Post here, I guess.)
Tournaments uploaded on the beta system over the last two weeks have been wiped out. (Tournament uploaded on alpha in the last few days are now on beta.)
Real-time updates to membership records from the membership system is not yet functional, hopefully they’ll get that working early next week.
We want all the beta testers to know that their testing is VERY MUCH appreciated, even if it may not seem like their bug reports are being resolved. (Many of them have been, some are still in development.)
Leago has been focusing more on things that were flat-out broken rather than stylistic issues (like bolding the results column.) That doesn’t mean style issues won’t get addressed, to the extent that they’re addressable.
Good catch, it has been reported to Leago. I’m not sure if these are intended as additions to the “this player doesn’t belong” logic or a replacement for it. I’m not sure they suffice as the latter.
What I’ve been doing is just flagging them as house players or using the $10 correction fee, real-time updates are coming, I was hoping they’d be done this week, but :sigh:.
One of the new features is that Leago will rate the event as soon as payment is made (subject to rerating to get it into chronological order, of course), which is kind of cool. I don’t know if that’s running on beta yet, the payment stuff is kind of dummied out for now, but you can see the release-for-payment screen which is where the TD certifies that the event is accurate and meets US Chess standards, and also where the money prize list goes.
I am disappointed that they did not at least disable the dancing chess pieces (WebGL2) so I could participate more in the Beta. Hopefully, it is not more of an issue than the animation.
Yes, I have been trying every day and it fails at same point (at startup) but it could be a different error msg although I see *Error: Error creating WebGL context. *
My main system I use for chess activities is Lenovo T510 that uses integrated graphics which does not support WebGL2 - but does support WebGL1 fine. WebGL2 support started with 3rd gen intel processors and that aligns with all the machines I tried where it does not work.
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Device Description : Intel(R) HD Graphics
Adapter String : Intel(R) HD Graphics (Core i5)
Driver Date : 2012-11-26
Driver Version : 8.15.10.2900
Driver Provider : Intel Corporation
Thanks, I’ve passed your report on to Leago with the recommendation that they suspend the dancing chess pieces until they can get it working for everyone. IMHO it is unacceptable to just say, “Your hardware is too old.” I hear that too often from the big guys.
@nolan I’m not certain about the timing of my next comment compared to the beta update.
I don’t see the animated pieces anymore but the tiles showing Leaderboard, Ranking, Top 100, etc do not always have data. For example, here’s a screenshot of the Leaderboard having blank entries. I’ve seen it once where a few tiles were “empty” like that.
Not just for quick-only and blitz events. FIDE rapid goes all the way to (but does not include) 60 minute games, which is well inside the US Chess dual time control.
Yeah, looking further down the code I see it skips all dual-rated events as well. I’ll have to check with staff to see if we need to change events from 60 to 65 minutes (inclusive of the MM add-on) to compute a FIDE fee, I don’t know if anybody’s running those in the USA.
Yes, technically 60 ≤ mm+ss ≤ 65 would be FIDE classical but US Chess dual.
However, as FIDE does not allow games to be rated in the 60 ≤ mm+ss < 90 range if any players are above 1800 FIDE, I would not expect those to be very common.
1.1 For a game to be rated each player must at the start of the game have the following minimum periods in which to complete all the moves, assuming the game lasts 60 moves.
Where at least one of the players in the game has a rating of 2400 or higher, each player must have a minimum of 120 minutes.
Where at least one of the players in the game has a rating 1800 or higher, each player must have a minimum of 90 minutes.
Where both of the players in the game are rated below 1800, each player must have a minimum of 60 minutes.
Am I the only one who thinks it is strange that we make a big issue out of ALL GAMES MUST BE RATED in US Chess events but are willing to leave games out when submitting that same event to FIDE?
