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R flips the board? Very unintuitive. In chessbase it's ctrl + f. On lichess it's f.

R rotates the board, it seems to be somewhat arbitrary which character achieves what you want once you know which key to use. When we added a key binding for flipping, we'd already been using 'f' for something else, so 'f' wasn't available.

I want the board to be in the center. Why do I need to look to the left? The board is too small. I want it as big as possible but still be able to see the opening book and the scoresheet.

The larger the board , the less move list, opening explorer and game search results you get so there are tradeoffs in having a larger board. If you're happy with those tradeoffs the board is resizable using the resize handle on the right edge of the board. We've chosen a default we believe offers a compromise between a reasonable sized board, and still providing enough screen left for the other UI elements, while still leaving you with the option to choose your own board size.

In any case, I don't think any of this relates to 'ugly' as it is functionality issues you are describing, not form, and it sounds like there are reasonable workarounds for the functionality issues you've described (3 different ways of rotating the board, and a resizable board). I'm sorry you're not happy with the new UI. Given you were one of our first users, I'm sure you've gotten very used to the old DB UI, but hopefully you'll find the new UI less objectionable over time.  We may offer some options for more control over UI layout in the future where the move list could be optionally shown on the left, but this is probably not going to be a short term priority at the moment.

R flips the board? Very unintuitive. In chessbase it's ctrl + f. On lichess it's f. I want the board to be in the center. Why do I need to look to the left? The board is too small. I want it as big as possible but still be able to see the opening book and the scoresheet.

Hi,
thanks for your first answer.
I found another bug:

The elo filter for the opening results only works once: please find attached gif that describes it best

https://imgur.com/G6yc7Gn

Thanks for the report! Turns out the under 2000 and 2000+ selectors were not working. The rest of it appears to have been working, although the caching we do may have confused things if bad results were being cached. I've deployed a new version which should fix both of those rating range subset choices, and should also create a new opening explorer cache to avoid reusing any bad results that might be sitting in the cache.

Please let me know if this new version appears to fix the problem for you.

EDIT: Sorry, I posted before the new upload had completed, if you read this just after I posted, please reload the database page and try again, as you may have still been looking at the old version if you read my reply immediately after I posted. It is definitely live now.

Regards,
Richard.

Hi,
thanks for your first answer.
I found another bug:

The elo filter for the opening results only works once: please find attached gif that describes it best

https://imgur.com/G6yc7Gn

It would be useful if you could provide some more concrete details on what you don't like about the new UI beyond just 'ugly', and 'horrendous'.

You make a good point about the board flipper being tricky to access if your mouse has to traverse the game header. You can use the rotate board key ('r') to avoid using the mouse, but on mobile/tablet that is going to be annoying. The rotate action is also available under the blue circle menu, which will also work on devices without a keyboard.

Just read the announcement. It's supposed to look like that as default. Horrendous. But after dragging some things I managed to make it look ok. One annoying problem was trying to flip the board. If you try to reach the small circle from the wrong angle, it will pop up more information about the game, and you have to try again.

https://imgur.com/a/CW6HM13 maybe it's just my screen size that's making it look so bad, but anyway it's unbearable

Thanks, Richard.

How do i download the PGN of opening prep in the new D format? There used to be a "Download PGN" button but I dont see that any more. Thanks!

The download PGN (for move lists you've annotated yourself) is in the same place it is on the rest of the new site UI. Click on the blue circle button under the board, and then click on the Folder icon. That will show the PGN, and you can either copy/paste from there or click the download button on the panel to download directly.

"2nd question: I dont see the "Search Games for Position" button either. Not liking the changes sofar.

In the header of the games list you'll see a checkbox 'position' this dictates if the search results are filtered by the current position or not. Check that to get the same behaviour as the old 'search games for position'.

From the user guide:
"5.2.2. Position Mode
Clicking on the position checkbox in the games list header will lead the game search to update as you move around in the move list such that the results displayed all include the current position."

You might want to check out the updated database section of the user guide which covers the new UI in more detail:
https://chesstempo.com/manual/en/manual.html#chessdatabase

"2nd question: I dont see the "Search Games for Position" button either. Not liking the changes sofar.