Psychic Origami

Another update to chrss.

• tweaked front page layout to make it clearer and show different options depending on if you are logged in or not
• addition of a help section (with backend CMS for myself to add content to it).

At the moment the help section is not directly linked …

• Updated the user registration process, so hopefully it's a bit friendlier
• Users now have a chance to resend their activation email if they have trouble activating their account
• Tweaked filters for games on user's page:
  • "active" - games that it's your turn in or have had a move in the last …

• Bug fix for PGN (Portable Game Notation) output (as noted by Calibius)
• Faster PGN generation (evaluating only the legal moves I need to consider to avoid ambiguity, rather than _all_ legal moves)
• URLs in comments should now automatically appear as click-able links
• Ability to "rotate" the board, to view it …

• simple bread crumbs added to aid navigation:

  

• highlighting games that it's your turn to move in:

  

• PGN (portable game notation) output for games:

  

• improved test coverage

This update adds two features:

• you can now offer a draw to an opponent
• comments are now included in rss feeds for games and users

The first new feature was needed so I could finish this game. A bit like when I had to add the ability to resign a …

Chess Enlightenment at xkcd.

Well I ended up not doing so well against Kennon in the end.

To be able to finish the game though I needed to add the ability to resign from a game. So now when you are logged in you will see a "resign" button (if it's your turn to …

Well game #2 is in the end game now. It's been really good playing against Kennon. Must say that I'm not faring terribly well, but it's not over yet...

Over Christmas and evenings in January I've been working on a side project: chrss.

It's a correspondence chess web application. There are plenty of options for playing chess online (whether in realtime or via correspondence), but I felt the urge to "roll my own". This was a large part due …