A page a day

As well as WCSC preparation, I’ve been slowly converting the BDS Website to the new look, at the rate of about a page a day. The two minor sections are complete, most of the ‘Chess Composition’ section, with the exception of the actual problems, is done and most of Meson (except the front page and the acknowledgements) has yet to be converted. As the ‘snaps’ and the ‘near snaps’ are now available through Meson in the normal way, I have deleted the snaps pages.

Work on adding problems and identifying anticipations has stopped completely for the time being until WCSC preparation is complete, which I hope will be in a couple of weeks or so.

While I have been spending my time on other things, other people have been making use of Meson. So far, only part way through the month of September, the bandwidth used is higher than for any full month previously recorded. Looking at the statistics, it is clear that, although there are only between 30 and 60 visitors a day to the website, a small handful of them are making extensive use of Meson. So I am able to come to the clear conclusion that making Meson available in an unfinished state was not a waste of my time.

After the WCSC, with more Java coding and some study and use of CSS and Javascript, I plan to fill the gaps in Meson.