Chess Problems

papadoble · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 12:31 am Post subject: biaised ratings

I have noticed that pushing the button "animate solution", before any attempt to solve, solves the problem for the user and decreases the rating accordingly.
To have a fair rating it would be better to have the problem be marked as unsolved in this event.
The same applies for the "navigate solution" button.

To sum up, I suggest that when an unsolved problem is asked by a user to "animate solution" or "navigete solution", it becomes counted as unsolved for the user and its rating is increased as it must be.

mrmip · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:41 am Post subject:

My thoughts exactly!
The alternative is to have these controls deactivated (grayed out) until the solver has committed either right or wrong answer.

Just out of curiosity, Adum. Is anyone working (=maintaining, modifying) the applet currently? When was the last change?
Is there any realistic hope to have f.ex. the " 10 last comments" feature implemented?

Do not get me wrong. This is a great site - but it could be even better! Rolling Eyes

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adum · Site Admin Joined: 05 Jun 2005 Posts: 128

this would indeed be a key fix. i'll try to take a look.

the development on the site and applet is sporadic -- i don't have a definite timetable, but will get to things for sure in the future.

thanks,
adum