Comments for Magnus’s Online Chess: Developer Blog

Comment on A preview of some upcoming features by Juan Carlos

Juan Carlos — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:47:34 +0000

I posted my previous note in the support forum. Feel free to delete it from here.
Regards
JC

Comment on A preview of some upcoming features by Juan Carlos

Juan Carlos — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:13:45 +0000

First, congratulations for this fine piece of software and thank you for adding fun to my life .

I like your software a lot but I noticed some little bugs that are somewhat annoying.
I’m not sure if it’s ok posting them here, but I can’t find any other way to communicate with you:

Bugs:
1) When you have an adjourned game and login to FICS, the software propose you to match the other party. You accept and then… nothing happens. The game with the other party never starts.
I have tried to logout and login again, but it never works.

2) When you are in the middle of a game and got disconnected from the FICS, you got a message warning of this. When you reconnect, it makes not attempt to restart the same game where you were. Only appears the Find a game screen, and either you lose for disconnection or it is Adjourned… In this case you have the problem mentioned in (1).

That’s it. Other than that, the software works great.

I have an iPhone 3G, OS version 3.1.3 (7E18).

Thanks!
JC

Comment on A preview of some upcoming features by Martynas

Martynas — Mon, 10 May 2010 10:02:34 +0000

Oh, you are actually alive

Good to hear, that you are still working on updating this app. Keep up the good work!

Comment on Which features should we be working on? by Ollie

Ollie — Sat, 08 May 2010 09:02:07 +0000

Hey Martynas,

First up, thanks for your interest … and apologies for the amount of time it’s taken us to get the next update out. Unfortunately, our busy day jobs are making it tough to work on the app!

I’ve posted a quick preview of the coming features (with screenshots) here:
http://www.onlinechessapp.com/blog/?p=153

Comment on Which features should we be working on? by Martynas

Martynas — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:25:50 +0000

Any update coming this month? this year? ever?

Comment on Which features should we be working on? by Dennis Bourgerie

Dennis Bourgerie — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:29:36 +0000

The most needed feature now is a method to save the games that I have played. PGN file, or e-mail the moves to myself. So far it is a great app and much needed–tap-tap for the moves would also be helpful. Keep up the good work!

Comment on Designing an icon for the app store by James h

James h — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 02:09:28 +0000

Love the icon

Comment on Which features should we be working on? by framer

framer — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:06:56 +0000

Yes, a very well designed application. I have a dream :

1) timeseal implementation ;
2) premove support ;
3) portrait or landcape seek adds.

“Timeseal is a program that has been developed to improve chess on internet. Netlag often causes players to lose valuable seconds or even minutes on their chess clocks. Transmission time is counted against you, unless the chess server can tell exactly when information is transmitted. The timeseal program acts as a relay station and keeps track of transmission times. What timeseal does is record your thinking time, so that transmission time is not counted against you. Timeseal will not prevent netlag but it makes the games fairer when lag occurs. (For other ways to handle the impacts of lag, read “help
lag”.)”

Comment on Which features should we be working on? by Kalli

Kalli — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:33:33 +0000

Congratulations on a very well designed application.

Comment on Which features should we be working on? by Ollie

Ollie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:55:07 +0000

@Andy

Thanks for letting us know about the bugs, they’re on our list and we’re looking into them!

In future, you might want to post on our support forum about issues like these, here’s the URL (it’s also linked from the top nav of this blog)

http://www.onlinechessapp.com/support/