Beta Feedback thread

@mwmiller said
I have tested it a few times just recently, and it seems to be working fine. It kicked my butt several games in a row too. I tested by promoting to various other pieces as well. The pawn promotion feature is much more useful and visible now, so that is a major improvement! I did not see any problems. 🙂

The update for the over-the-board messaging will not appear until the end of the week/start of next week, unfortunately.

@Russ said
This was just so everyone could promote right away, as both white and black. It will be reverted back after.

@mwmiller said
I have tested it a few times just recently, and it seems to be working fine. It kicked my butt several games in a row too. I tested by promoting to various other pieces as well. The pawn promotion feature is much more useful and visible now, so that is a major improvement! I did not see any problems. 🙂

@The-only-Mr-T said
Haha, I played a few games as well and got 1 draw and a bunch of loses. Take pride in that draw... I hope level 1 is the hardest 😅

@Martin said
I just tried it and got thrashed.

When I started the game it showed AI as level 0; how can you make the game harder or easier ir is it fixed and that level?

@The-only-Mr-T said
Are you on the beta site with the weird opening position? Finally got the better of it... Do start a queen up though 😄

@Martin said
Yes; on the Beta site and the opening position was normal.

I was just wondering if you can change the level to harder or easier

@orangutan said
Sure you're on the beta site?
The board is the easy to promote version when I start a game.

If you hit the new-game button you should get a slider to adjust the level. 1-20

@Martin said
Thank you - I did not know about hitting the new-game button.

Now I have a problem where a black and white pawn have swapped ends and one of each colour is missing altogether

@orangutan said
So that set-up of pawns ready to promote is just on the Beta site ... and there just for the purposes of easily testing promotion (see my post on the previous page & the response from @Russ).
Otherwise it'd be a very frustrating time getting reliable promotions tested using the new board interface.

Maybe he'll keep the arrangement when it goes live .. might make for interesting AI games ...

@The-only-Mr-T said
Haha, I played a few games as well and got 1 draw and a bunch of loses. Take pride in that draw... I hope level 1 is the hardest 😅

@The-only-Mr-T said
Are you on the beta site with the weird opening position? Finally got the better of it... Do start a queen up though 😄

@Russ said
Lets just say that the difficulty needs 'calibrating' - I decided that was a job to be tackled in isolation, after this release.

It was super useful for testing UI in development though, and the first thing migrated.

@The-only-Mr-T said
I put it up to level 20, didn't notice much difference in playing strength but it did take considerably longer to make a move. Saying that I got bored after 5-10 moves and left it.