I am not advanced with computers so pardon me if this question is dumb. For the all the game videos posted in the articles on the USCF site, I don’t see a way to manually move the game forward move by move. If I click on the forward arrow the game moves forward automatically and often at a pace that’s much faster than I’d like. For most other game videos on the net there is a way for the viewer to move the video forward at a pace of their choice and just stop when one wants to examine a position.
Not a thing. The online version of Chess Life is simply a form of their magazine you can print out. I also wish all annotated games and their notes could be played over without a set similar to chess.com. It would make the online only version more attractive.
Sorry. but my question wasn’t about the online edition of chess life. I was thinking of the daily articles that appear on the USCF website like the recent one about Shankland and Naroditsky winning a tournament. These often contain games where one can only watch them in fast forward style as far as I can see(hopefully I’m wrong).
Once you click on the > symbol the first time, you will then be able to use any key on your keyboard to move forward one move at a time (as long as you don’t first click something else with your mouse). This avoids the program jumping more than one move at a time, which happens sometimes when using the mouse to advance.
Unless I am misunderstanding what you said this doesn’t work for me. When I click the single forward arrow symbol, the game video starts playing at some predetermined speed and from start to finish without stopping.
Please provide an exact link to what you are looking at. Instead of just left-clicking on it, right-click and open in a new tab or window. The copy the http:… address at the top of the page and paste it in your message.
At this point I am guessing that you are talking about something entirely different from what people think you are asking about.
Any article on the USCF site that has games that play out on a video will do. Here’s the most recent USCF article for example: main.uschess.org/content/view/11910/676
I tried that one and it worked just fine on my ten-year-old desktop.
Some laptops have a feature (highly undesirable, IMHO) where, if you hover the mouse (or that horrible pad thing laptops have) too long over one spot, it will behave as though you clicked there. If you can find a way to disable this nasty feature, please do so. Then maybe you’ll be OK.
Ditto. Or, you can go back half a move at a time using the < box.
On a laptop with its screwy mouse, though, I suppose anything could happen.
When I started a new job six months ago, I told my boss I hated everything about laptops. The screens are hard to read, the keyboards are too small, and the mice are wacko. For a while I ended up using a laptop with an external monitor, external keyboard, and external mouse. That way, it was just as good as a desktop.