Live Chess is Back Up!

posted by bigyellow on 2009-10-21 10:02:26

It's been a while, but live chess is back up. Just a few notes.

To start a game, click on either join button. For example, if you click on the button under black for table #4, you'll be sitting as black at table #4 (pretty straightforward).

Wait for someone else to join your table as well. Once they do, a start button will show up. Click it to go to the board.

The person that clicks on a table first is the board host. They get to set the time of the game. The values are 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 minutes. If the second player doesn't agree to the time (I don't want a one minute game, I want a 5 or 10 minute game), they can just leave and go back to the waitarea.

To protect against cheating, once the non board host clicks start, the board host can't change the time. That way, you can't have the situation where the board host has more time than his or her opponent.

Now there may be a bug or two (or five!), but the actual game play should be fine. For all of you developers out there who use firefox + firebug...DON'T DO IT! Seriously, I check for this scenario and remind you that your browser will slow down to a crawl if you have firebug turned on. If you're not a developer, you probably don't know what this is and all is good. Either way, if the situation arises, you'll be reminded o turn firebug off for nothingbutchess.com

I'll be on the live site periodically, but I have a day job and it's hard to do. It's much easier for me to sneak a move in here and there with correspondence chess. Anyway, let me know what you think.

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