- January 30, 2010: Mini-tournaments
- In order to add more meaning to the mini-tournament points, and make the overall
mini-tournament competition more exciting, there is now a point cost for joining and starting mini-tournaments.
I.e. a number of points (based on the mini-tournament size) will be deducted from player's total when they join or start a
new mini-tournament.
- November 24, 2009: Play chess
- It is now possible use drag-and-drop to move chess pieces on the board,
in both regular and Blitz chess (in addition to the classic 2-click method).
- November 13, 2009: Blitz Chess
- A new version of Blitz Chess is now available: Blitz Chess v2
- August 4, 2009: Analyze the board
- The downloadable chess diagram function of "Analyze the board" page
(under Save/Export menu at the bottom of the page) has been improved — it now fully supports
all custom/textured boards and also can add shadows under the chess pieces.
- August 1, 2009: Settings
- It is now possible to conceal conditional moves made by others — i.e. you will
not be immediately notified when a conditional move set up by your opponent was triggered in a game — via account
settings.
- June 29, 2009: Chess Ladder
- Another way to compete was introduced: Chess Ladder.
- May 10, 2009: New chess boards
- You can now choose from several additional "textured" options to customize the chess
board and chess diagrams to your liking — several types of real wood, marble, granite, etc.
(via "Settings" in the main menu to the left, or via "Board settings" on every game page).
It is now also possible to import PGN notation into "Analyze the board" window (via "Setup board").
- May 1, 2009: User name change
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It is now possible to change your user name, via settings in the main menu on the left side of the page.
Please note that this function is only available to premium membership subscribers, and
that user names cannot be changed more than once a year. If a player changes their user name, the previous one will be shown
on their stats/profile page to avoid any confusion.
- April 28, 2009: Mini-tournaments
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By popular demand, it is now possible to withdraw from mini-tournaments at any time.
Please note however, that if you withdraw from a mini-tournament, you will still need to finish all games that have already
been started for you (i.e. no active games will be cancelled). All remaining unstarted games will be recorded as lost in
the mini-tournament table, but will not affect your rating and stats. Also, the mini-tournament will still be marked
as active until you finish the remaining games in progress (if any), or for the next 30 days (whichever occurs last),
during which time it will count against the number of mini-tournaments you can participate in at the same time according
to your premium membership.
- April 22, 2009: Player notes
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By popular demand, you can now keep personal notes about other players (only viewable by you, of course).
The corresponding link is located on each player's profile page (accessible by clicking on the player's user name).
Your notes will also be displayed in the little pop-up window when you hover the mouse pointer over the player's user name.
- April 18, 2009: Invite a friend
- You can now play a game of chess with anyone, no GameKnot account required —
all you need is their e-mail address (only one game per guest account, however they can sign up for a full account at any time).
- March 20, 2009: Chess board
- Many improvements and new customization options for the chess board (several new sets of chess pieces, ability to change
the color of the board, pictograms of the chess pieces instead of letters in the move list, etc.). All options can be
configured either via "Board settings" link located below the chess board on any of the game pages, or via "Settings" link
in the main menu to the left.
- January 7, 2009: Help
- The Frequently Asked Questions page has been updated with a powerful search function
that should help find relevant information much easier.
- January 3, 2009: New GameKnot
- Welcome to the new GameKnot! We have changed a lot of behind-the-scenes technical stuff that, while not visible from the outside,
will allow us to introduce new and exciting features we've been working on going forward. The only visible change is the new main menu on the
left side of all pages. You can even customize the way it behaves by clicking on the ↔ symbol at the bottom.
- December 21, 2008: Game comments
- Several improvements to the game comments: it is now possible to have more than one comment per player (up to 10 total), you can
edit your previous comments, or erase all comments at any time, and also now it shows how long ago each comment was added. Click on the
"Settings" link directly above the game comments to customize how they are displayed.
- October 22, 2008: Link to GameKnot
- By popular demand, when you link to GameKnot using one of the buttons/images, your user name is now encoded in the link,
so that all the clicks can be tracked by GameKnot's referral program.
- September 20, 2008: Player stats by country
- Various stats about different countries represented on GameKnot are now available. Only active rated players (20+ finished games, seen online less than 90 days ago) are counted. Updated nightly.
- August 22, 2008: Chess Toolbar
- A new version of GameKnot Chess Toolbar for Internet Explorer
has been released — v1.4. Several compatibility issues have been resolved, new and improved installation program, and also the menu has been updated.
- July 5, 2008: Conditional moves
- The new and improved "conditional moves" option is now available (the link is located below each game board).
- May 24, 2008: GameKnot links and widgets
- We've added a few more ways you can link to GameKnot, including a customizable active widget that displays your current rating and stats.
- April 27, 2008: Chess games database
- An improved version of GameKnot's online chess games database is now available. It includes a database of over 700,000 games played outside of GameKnot by various players rated 1900 and above.
- February 1, 2008: Chess puzzles
- Several improvements to the chess puzzles section, including the ability to enter your own solution to an existing puzzle, possibly even finding a quicker way to checkmate (under "Options…" -> "Another solution…").
- January 25, 2008: Daily puzzle
- You can now add GameKnot's daily puzzle to your own website/blog. The puzzle is automatically updated once a day, of course.
- November 10, 2007: Chess puzzles
- A greatly improved chess puzzles section of GameKnot website is now available.
- October 14, 2007: Team co-captains
- By popular demand, teams can have up to 3 co-captains now. Team captains can promote regular team members to a co-captain status via "manage the team" link (same as for team captains, a Platinum or Titanium premium membership is required for co-captains as well). Co-captains can challenge other teams to a team match, and accept or decline other team's challenges.
- September 1, 2007: Spellchecker
- A "spellcheck" button is now available for most text entry fields on GameKnot (private messages and game comments, club forum posts, additional info in player's profile, etc.). It currently supports English language only and allows both American and British spellings.
- August 21, 2007: Emergency game postponement
- Announcing a new GameKnot feature: automatic emergency postponement.
- July 25, 2007: Publish a game
- You can use GameKnot's free interactive chess game viewer "iChess" to publish chess games on your own website or blog.
- May 1, 2007: Player stats
- Player stats are now available broken down into 3 different time periods: past 90 days, past year and all rated games. "Past year" and "all games" stats do not include the first 20 rated games (i.e. the provisional rating period). Also, the up and down arrows denote whether the corresponding number is above or below the same stat in the next tab (i.e. "past 90 days" numbers relative to the "past year", and "past year" relative to "all games" tab).
- March 13, 2007: Analyze the board
- Several additions to "analyze the board" page: animation of the movement of chess pieces (speed can be set via "Options..." link located at the bottom of the page), possible valid moves are shown when a chess piece is selected (also optional) and, long overdue, checkmate detection has been added as well.
- March 3, 2007: Annotated games
- It is now possible for other players to add comments to annotated games (in effect, kibitzing). Also, linking directly to a specific annotated game (with comments) from your own website.
- February 27, 2007: Avatars
- By popular demand, the maximum avatar size has been increased for premium subscribers to 50x40 pixels. Also, avatars are now being shown in club forum posts.
- January 15, 2007: Team ladder
- A new form of team competition is now available: Team ladder (rules).
- August 8, 2006: Club forums
- By popular demand, it is now possible to post chess diagrams in the club forums. Simply use fen= code followed by a FEN notation in quotation marks to insert a chess diagram for any given position on the board. For example, the following code will produce a chess diagram of the position on the board after 1. e4:
fen="rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/4P3/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQKBNR b"
- July 21, 2006: Annotated games
- It is now possible to filter (or search) the annotated games list using several different criteria (the link is located above the annotated games list).
- July 15, 2006: Annotated games
- It is now possible to export PGN for annotated games and also if you start a new game from scratch, it is possible to import a PGN notation for the entire game, so you don't have to enter it move by move (with notes too!). The "import PGN" function is also useful if you have a PGN notation for a game (from a magazine or another website) and would like to replay the game on the board without manually entering each move.
- July 9, 2006: Annotated games
- It is now possible to annotate games (i.e. add notes for each of the moves in a game) using the link located below the game board. You can do it privately for your own games to keep track of their progress, or you can make public annotations for your own or someone else's games.
- March 21, 2006: Analyze the board
- The new version of "analyze the board" page now supports pawn promotions and you can optionally allow only the legal moves to be accepted.
- March 11, 2006: Analyze the board
- "Analyze the board" page has been updated with many new features,
including fully dynamic tracking of your moves and the captured pieces. It might not be fully compatible with the older web browsers,
so please make sure to update yours to the latest available version.
- February 23, 2006: Clubs
- A list of most active club forums (based on the number of posts in the last 10 days) and a list of active message threads in all club forums are now available.
- February 13, 2006: Bookmarks
- You can now bookmark frequently visited pages for one-click access (bookmarks can be accessed by moving your mouse over "more options" item in the menu).
- January 15, 2006: Avatars
- It is now possible to upload an image to be shown as your avatar in all your games.
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