We have listed all our entries for our chess blog here. This is intended to keep everyone updated with any bugs fixed or changing to this chess game site.
19th July 2008
A global fault occured on our webserver concerning the player username and login section. We are glad to say the bug was quickley tracked down and solved. Sorry for any inconvience caused for all our players.
23rd June 2008
A chess beginners guide has been added to our site. This guide will explain to those new to the game of chess, the general rules of the game. The guide can be found in the main menu.
20th June 2008
We have increased the available time per move options for all our games.
10 Minute, 1 Hour, 24 Hour and 2 Day options are now available for all new games.
20th June 2008
Holiday system maintenance has now been completed. Sorry for any inconvenience caused for our chess players.
19th June 2008
We will be closed for players logging in for approx 2 hours starting at 10:00pm GMT on 19th June. Remember to adjust this time for your country time difference.
This downtime will enable us to fix problems in the holiday system, which cannot be done while players are logged in.
Any players login at this time will automatically be logged out.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
12th June 2008
Bug fixed in chess game names. If a game name contained an ampersand character, an error would occur. The problem has now been fixed.
11th June 2008
Bug fixed in chess forum that prevented Internet Explorer users from posting messages into board.
10th June 2008
We have added our chess forum to our increasing features to this site. All are members are free to post their own messages onto the forum board. Hopefully getting some good discussions taking place.
26th May 2008
Bug fixed in holiday system where players were unable to view a chess game if a holiday period was set, even if they was only the opponent during that game.
17th May 2008
Our secure player login form is now available from every page, making it easier for our players to login. Even better, the login still encrypts your password before being sent to our server for verification.
3rd May 2008
Great new feature added. We have installed our holiday system so players can increase their game times, avoiding any timeouts when on holiday. Usernames will be displayed in purple when a holiday period is set. 50 days holiday are allowed per player per year.
29th April 2008
A total moves played counter has been added to the statistics area. This displays the total aggregate number of moves played in all archived and current games. Any moves played in cancelled games will also be included in the total.
28th April 2008
Problem with Apple Mac Safari Web Browser users not being able to see the text fields properly. This problem has been correctly by altering the background and text colour.
16th April 2008
Players are only allowed to login using our secure login page from now onwards. This will ensure that passwords for players are encrypted before transmission over the internet.
15th April 2008
We have now completed the switch over to our new web server. Che55.com should now be faster and more reliable. Some players may of experienced site problems while this delicate changeover was in progress, and we thank them for their patience.
24th March 2008
Bug fixed that caused some chess games to display incorrectly. Many thanks to 'robbiebee' for alerting us to this problem.
7th March 2008
We have added a Frequently Asked Questions page, which is linked from the main menu. We hope to keep this page updated with new common questions.
27th February 2008
A big thank you to all our members. We have reached our first 1000 games played on here. How long before we break our next 1000??
1st December 2007
The Christmas period is upon us. For those with Adobe Flash Player 9 installed on their computer, a festive flash movie has been added to our homepage. If you don't have flash installed or your using an older version, why not visit the Adobe website for a free download?
30th November 2007
We have added a complete list of all finished archived games by all players. This list can be accessed by 'Archived Games' now listed in the main menu.
12th November 2007
Subscribe to your own personalised RSS game feed from 'My Games' games list section. With a suitable RSS feed reader you can check if it's your turn to move in any of your games without logging into your account. Most modern internet browsers have a feed reader built in. Internet Explorer 6 is not a modern browser, and doesn't have this facility. Why not upgrade to Internet Explorer 7 or even better, Firefox 2.0? You can then use our new RSS feed.
31st October 2007
Our web server host decided to update their system today to Apache 2.2. They didn't bother to tell us about this beforehand, so we was unprepared. This caused us to be down for a large length of time. The problem has been fixed now.
We decided to add 10 hours extra time to all live games, as players were unable to login and play their chess moves. Apologies to all our members for this annoying problem that occurred.
21st October 2007
Maximum number of chess games that are allowed to be played simultaneously has be increased from 10 to 100.
19th October 2007
Upgraded the player avatar system. The avatar size has been increased to 162x100 pixel size. This means we had to change the predefined avatars to different images when changing to the new size. Players may still upload their own image as an avatar. All uploaded pictures will be forced to 162x100 pixel size.
On some areas of our site, for example in member lists, the avatars are reduced to half their size to save space.
18th October 2007
Many thanks to chess player "birmie" for the suggestion of a notepad to jot down ideas during each game. We have now installed this notepad into the game move area. It is important to remember, comments written on your notepad can only be seen by yourself. They will be invisible to your opponent.
13th October 2007
Security captcha images are also included in the new chess member registration section and forgotten username or password area. This security images should stop automatic robots from sending spoof requests to our server.
2nd October 2007
Security captcha image has been integrated into our contact us form. This feature will stop spam robots from automatically filling in the form and overloading our server. It's works because a robot cannot read the numbers in the image, only by a human. The form cannot be submitted without entering these numbers.
25th September 2007
We have added a chess resources page that we hope will provide links to external chess related sites. If anyone would like to add their own site to this list, please us our contact form. We will try to reply as soon as possible.
23rd September 2007
Bored of the pre-defined avatars on offer? You can now upload your own picture of yourself to use as an avatar image next to your username. Also an additional photo is now allowed bigger at 400x400 size.
13th September 2007
Programming bug with top 10 chess players league table, caused players with joint places not to be displayed. The problem has now been fixed.
12th September 2007
We have increased the maximum number of games allowed to 10. This limit has been increased for all chess players. This is a temporary measure until our premium membership is up and running.
7th September 2007
We updated our homepage to give a fresh new look to our site. Page will auto expand to fill any size browser regardless of size resolution used.
Homepage has also been re-written in the new XHTML markup code, to give a more consistant rendering across different browser platforms.
We will gradually change the whole site over to this new style page.
6th September 2007
This news function added to site, giving visitors information about updates and any bugs fixed.
