Yea, this newest update has loads of issues for iPad… the most disconcerting of them all, is that stalkfish when I quickly run through the variation offered on the gear for 5 lines ngn, is really poor,
luckily, I have time and can let it run for an hour, for 5 moves and so on.
The second issue I feel like a fool, but I am not getting the ngn to run many times when on the ‘gear’, I then go ‘home’ and back to my games to try again, and the game I had just played and ngn analysis, is just not there, but when I go to safari and into my profile, selecting the games, and it’s there, and I would not care to use safari to play or analyze, because I am not trusting it, I like the app, I’ve played thousands of games on it, I go to safari to build my studies and open as many played ones I like, so, I do use the browser,
why can I not use the app for getting in a Swiss tourney, nor a simul, not that I could before, and still … no forum…
But, I digress, the end of the game is another issue, of course, I know it’s ended when I tip my king, but I find myself calculating for a long time finally realizing, my opponent tipped their king, once upon a time, the pop up came up stating my opponent resigned, this is not a real issue, but it would be nice to let a player know their job is done…
There’s more…
I find myself after going over my game, and select my time control to play another, I’m sitting there until I close the app and open it again, selecting my time controls I get a game almost immediately, am I not connected to the server ? Must I always close the app for the next game. If I do not analyze or just look at the result, I get the next game right away, it’s when I wait the hour (or over like 5 minutes but, I don’t know really, how long the ‘shorter than hour’ interval is) for the next five moves, going back to home to play a new opponent is when it seems to hang up
The lichess messages feature, messages don’t come up, when I am in messages having a conversation I must get out of message and go back in to see what is said, is this not annoying? I find I must go to safari just to have a conversation… not that anything I have to say is ever important, but I would like having real time response, and not have to keep leaving the message feature and going back in.
At times the app just does nothing at all, I must not only quit the app, but flick it out of the iPad screen where all open apps can be viewed, then wait to a count then re activate the app…
The search feature is still buggy, why can I not get more than like 250 games at a time? When I select games that have been analyzed it gives me nothing I expect, but I like trying to get a date range for the limit of sought games because I’m looking for my games that I feel great about like a chess god, and want to put them all in studies so I don’t have to search again so hard, but then I don’t remember which study I stuck them in and still must search
The last time I was playing when the lichess countdown (lichess will shut down in a few minute notice) was going on, it froze at 9 seconds I had to restart the app, and in the middle of the first game I played, (after reopening the app) the lichess shutdown notice came another time…. This was not a happy moment for the likes o me……
After many of my games, I like to go over it with stockfish…
Now as to the ngn giving me ridiculous lines, I get it, I thank you for it, this way if someone is using it as a crutch WHILE playing a game against me, then I will not feel so bad that I lost, and may even win the game, I’m only like 1500, so please don’t expect me to beat stockfish at any result,, and I appreciate the ability to let it run for an hour to get a solid line, so it’s really not an issue, unless I forget and run through the quick recommended next moves and find the line went horribly wrong, then I must figure out how to not have gone through it in the first place,
as I was saying, no way to get to the study in app, I must go into safari, so, what happens is the hours I spent getting a line is not recorded like in a study, as I said I don’t trust the browser and cannot waste hours in the study for a suspect line …. where I get, for the hours I take it, a solid line through the app… but never remembered (but that was a cool position, it got me ) kind of stuff, so My braggadocio backfires because I misremembered the whole few hours of waiting…
You know “hey man!, you gotta see this cool line … “ and immediately fall flat because I misremembered the move order…
I’m old, and my memory plays tricks on me it and can’t remember 5 moves seconds later let alone try and do what I’m trying to do with 20 or more moves… not to say I’d ever come across it in a live game, I go away feeling like I saw something cool… but, I digress yet again, but, I would like to erase the mistakes I make in move order so as to get a full run play through a few times so it sinks in and I understand what is going on…so a study feature from the app would be much appreciated, because, I would not like to remember a poor line because I am daft.
So, thank you for reading this I hope you are doing well, and keep up the good work as I appreciate what you have produced, and maintain my lichess feathers, per month, ( and not the small lump sum, for it permanently, as I would give you guys much more in the long run by the month) this is how much I appreciate lichess as a whole chess experience.
@acerb8
