Huge indeed!

As always, thanks for producing such excellence. If ever a game called out for a huge worldwide user base, I believe this one is it. And it seems to be improved more dependably than some other bigger titles I could mention (but won't).

Will controller / Steam Deck support be available for 1.0?

Thank you, steam deck support would be nice

Cool cool cool hype :D

Originally posted by runtcash:

Thank you, steam deck support would be nice

Actually, this game already works nice on steam deck.

I cannot seem to check, because the analysis feature (the one in the modal accessed via history) seems to now take an awful amount of time (or is broken now, as there does not seem to be any huge amount of load from the game), maybe add a percentage bar here if this could be expected to take quite long?

But personally I'd still like to be able to explore alternative paths, assuming approximated optimal play for the blunders directly on the board, I think this would be great for the learning effect for chess noobs like myself... (as I struggled to explain this the first time, I really encourage you BRANE to check out "The Conquest of Go"'s review feature to roughly see what I mean (maybe this can serve as inspiration, albeit Go being different from chess; still directly playing/better yet even guessing what would have been the correct move to play greatly improved my intuition for the game).

Just my big wish for this game to truly rock!

hey I also found this bug sometimes happens when it loads infinitely but I thought I squashed it. So as far as that goes it's a bug and it will never load.

Usually it will take well under a second.

Maybe to fit the narrative, one could have a helpful friend who is willing to check out the worst mistakes on the board, highlighting them and let's you guess what they would have done instead, then showing their favorite opponents reply and letting you guess their favorite answer again, maybe with the option to get a hint, highlighting the piece to move, a la bot.vinnik series? I just think it would be cool, maybe even allowing to finish the alternate match version from some point onward?

Originally posted by BRANE:

hey I also found this bug sometimes happens when it loads infinitely but I thought I squashed it. So as far as that goes it's a bug and it will never load.

Usually it will take well under a second.

Ah, thanks for your reply :) - maybe it is related to me having saved the game with an earlier version? It used to work; if this could be the case I could give you my save file for debugging; If you want...I can also just start over and see if it works again :)

Edit: Was on the beta branch to check-out mid-game saving beforehand (worked great, save that might be flawed was done after game).

Edit2: Am solely playing on deck and switched to main branch upon this announcement.

And sorry if my question w.r.t. match review comes out as not in the scope of this project. I just really think this game is by far the most advanced game when it comes to playing and getting better at chess on steam. For me the aforementioned game is a swiss army knife for learning and playing Go and getting better; and personally I see the same for this game wrt chess, only thing that would nail it for me personally would be to have this opportunity of being able to guess the estimated correct move oneself and see what happens afterwards (again maybe again involving guess work) directly on the board. Imho this would really complete the experience of having one chess game to bring it to perfection :D

You idea of replaying mistakes is something I had in mind (similar features are in chess.com's app) but I'm not sure it will become part of the game before 1.0 hits (if ever)

I'll definitely add it to the list of things I'd like to add in the future

If you ever figure out a reliable way of reproducing the bug with infinite loading of review please let me know. It seems to be connected to the changes I added around openings but can't figure it out completely.

Originally posted by BRANE:

You idea of replaying mistakes is something I had in mind (similar features are in chess.com's app) but I'm not sure it will become part of the game before 1.0 hits (if ever)

I'll definitely add it to the list of things I'd like to add in the future

Glad to hear that, thanks! :)

Originally posted by BRANE:

If you ever figure out a reliable way of reproducing the bug with infinite loading of review please let me know. It seems to be connected to the changes I added around openings but can't figure it out completely.

Like I said, not sure how this might be related to my save file or whether it could help, but I seem to be able to reproduce it infinitely by loading it, immediately accessing history and immediately tapping on my (first and only) game. I cold booted my device multiple times and tried it yesterday and today and it happened always - if this could help, I could try with a different version of proton (I am just using the default, not enforcing something).

Oh yeah, if you already have a game in history with the problem, the problem won't disappear.

I meant if you can 'create' another one with the same issue consistently