Unanswered Questions
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2019 Community Moderator Election
The 2019 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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Should the PGN viewer board show rank/file on the squares?
I recently edited a question to convert the person's text description of where each piece was to an FEN diagram. Apparently this caused a little confusion as to which way the pawns were moving, as ...
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Can we start a competition for chess.se?
I have seen several beta and other se sites were launching competitions and I wondered why can't we start an competition for chess.se too?
I think it may attract visitors and enthusiasts to keep us ...
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PGN viewer is far too wide when displayed from review
Screenshot:
Think it's pretty obvious what the problem is here. Here's the suggested edit that the bug appears in.
Reproduced on both Firefox 38.0 and Chromium 43.0.2357.81 on Ubuntu 14.04.
After a ...
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Can we tweak the PGN viewer a bit?
I like everything about the new viewer but one thing: when you give it the FEN for a position, the subsequent moves are forced to appear as starting with 1 again.
In other words, even though the FEN ...
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2018: a year in moderation
It's New Year's Day in Stack Exchange land...
A distinguishing characteristic of these sites is how they are moderated:
We designed the Stack Exchange network engine to be mostly self-regulating, in ...
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Policies towards "Find checkmate in x" type of posts
I am curious as to where our policies stand for posts that plainly ask for "Find me checkmate in x".
To draw some analogy, e.g., on physics SE it's prohibited to simply paste exercises to be solved, ...
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Specify complete piece name in posts
After this post https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/1583/king-bishop-and-knight-versus-king got closed as an exact duplicate, I began wondering if we could establish a community guideline to ...
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June 5 Strike - Who, What, When, Why, and How to Join
Following from Stack Overflow, and as other sites will soon have to (if they don't already have them, I have decided, with some approval, to announce the upcoming June 5 strike on this child meta. It ...
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Board playback and Chess 960
This question: Can you castle twice in Chess960?
shows that there is a bug with the board playback regarding Chess 960 alternate starting positions, particularly in relation to castling. If you ...
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Pieces from PGN viewer are displayed above review bar
A picture + freehand 'circle' says more than a thousand words:
You can reproduce it e.g. by clicking here and scrolling down. Expected behaviour is that the pieces disappear behind the bar, just like ...
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FEN diagram reader breaking on an answer
This is in regard to the only answer for this question.
Upon scrolling back on the FEN reader and then clicking on a specific move in the reader leads to this weird interaction where some pieces just ...
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Drawing arrows and coloring fields with a flipped board is broken
Normal orientation works:
[FEN ""]
[StartPly "2"]
1. e4 {[%draw arrow,e2,e4,red][%draw full,e1,green]}
Flipping sides doesn't move the drawings:
[FEN ""]
[Startflipped &...
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How many minor edits in a day is too much?
Related:
Policy regarding mass minor edits
The post Why do we make small edits to very old posts? seems really more about age of post than "size" of the edit. Including just for completeness....
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PGN Viewer choices are showing up in the wrong place on the page
When the PGN viewer offers a choice, the choice dialog is appearing in the top left of the page, which doesn't seem correct.
No matter where I scroll or the window size, it's fixed just a few pixels ...
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