64squar.es Blog

For those of you with twitter accounts, you should check out our new site =>
ChessTwit
It allows you to play chess against your twit friends !

Apologies for the downtime !
We ran out of Disk space! This has now been fixed and hopefully the site should be a little speedier
Jonah

A few of you have requested country flags. So we’ve added it – it will be interesting to see where players come from around the world !!
I wonder which country is best at chess?

One of the biggest new features is embedding games into blogs. The embedding feature is very easy to use. Simply inserting the following code into your article:
sixty4_embed("id=game.4")
... embeds the game into the page …. :

There’s lots of different options. E.g.
sixty4_embed("id=game.4,size=5,move_num=4")

There’s lots more options and we’re putting together a page explaining them all.

Poor old bobby F has been buried in Iceland at a private ceremony.
He died of kidney failure on Thursday at the age of 64. A god among chess players. We will continue to celebrate his brilliant chess mind and games.
Coming soon – We will import some of Bobby’s best games into 64squar.es. More details soon !

Well it’s been a long time since the last update, but we’ve been busily rejigging the whole site with a wealth of new features.
First up, now every user now has their own blog. It’s all completely free-form and you talk can about anything chess related. Write about interesting games that you’ve played or your thoughts about strategy.
This is the new blog for the whole site, dealing with mostly general news. For a more technical viewpoint on 64squar.es, visit
Jonah’s blog
Another big feature is embedding games. Games can be embedded on articles and blogs. In the future, it will be possible to embed them on external websites. The embedding feature is pretty cool – there’s lots of options. We’ll put up a separate post explaining it, but here’s a sample :

Also we’ve put together a small CMS for allowing for static pages – which will allow for more pages (e.g. FAQ).

Well the blog’s been down for a while – and we’re finally back for good !
In the past month we’ve actually had quite a few features added :

1. Caching: The site should load up significantly faster.
   
2. Openings: Games are now classified into openings. There is also a database of openings that can be browsed.
   
3. Open challenges: Users can now create challenges that are open for anyone to accept. This makes it much easier to create games that get accepted quickly.
   
4. Lobby: We now have a lobby where people can chat publicly and find other players
   
5. PGN: The Portable Game Notation for the game is now available for download, making it much easier to export the games into other chess programs and systems.
   
6. Various small fixes and improvements.

There’s now an RSS feed for each user :-)
You can also see this on your home page as an activity list. Should help to see what happened when and makes it more obvious when users win or lose.
Next up – users preferences and adding notes to games :-)