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A.Chatterjee, Rakesh Agrawal and Sailesh Chandra

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NEW MEMBERS

We had 41 new members in the period following publication of the AIWCF Bulletin 2023 2nd issue. Many of these new players are maths students of Rakesh Agrawal and they have availed our free 1-year membership offer. They will need to renew their membership after a year.

SrNoFull NameFromToFlag
643Thekkedath, Vasudevan 19-04-202419-04-2025IND
644Pinto, Shaun 23-04-202423-04-2025IND
645Venkatesh Tekuru, Sravan Kumar 24-04-202424-04-2025IND
646Avyukt, Ashis Brahma 24-04-202424-04-2025IND
647Bhat, Aqib Ahmad 24-04-202424-04-2025IND
648Gurugubelli, Tarakeswara Rao 24-04-202424-04-2025IND
649Bharti, Jai 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
650Natarajan, Aniruth 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
651Karthik, Talagani Karthik 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
652Dukka, Naresh 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
653Banerjee, Aritra 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
654Sarkar, Arun 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
655Laveti, Amruta 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
656Ghoshal, Sweta 25-04-202425-04-2025IND
657Damaraju, Prashasth Roy 26-04-202426-04-2025IND
658Ravula, Meghana 26-04-202426-04-2025IND
659Marthala, Sai Raja 26-04-202426-04-2025IND
660Sudarsanam, Krithika 28-04-202428-04-2025IND
661Haravari, Narasimha Murthy 28-04-202428-04-2025IND
662Shah, Vivaan B. 28-04-202428-04-2025IND
663Valloli Kalathil, Sreelekshmi S. 28-04-202428-04-2025IND
664Gurgui, Dan-Constantin 30-04-2024Life ROU
665Dewnani, Kartik 03-05-202403-05-2025IND
666Patel, Shivaansh 03-05-202403-05-2025IND
667Kumar, Rahul 04-05-202404-05-2025IND
668Kimari, Raghuvar 04-05-202404-05-2025IND
669Jain, Munish 05-05-202405-05-2025IND
670Kavi, Venkata Satyanarayana Rao 06-05-202406-05-2025IND
671Kota, Ananth 06-05-202406-05-2025IND
672G.B., Akshith 06-05-202406-05-2025IND
673Ayalraju, Alexander 07-05-202407-05-2025IND
674Bhujang, Aniruddha 08-05-202408-05-2025IND
675Bhujang, Archit 08-05-202408-05-2025IND
676D.M., Shivakumar 09-05-202409-05-2025IND
677Anusree, Anoop M.C. 09-05-202409-05-2025IND
678Vempally Sreedharan, Anilkumar 09-05-202409-05-2025IND
679Kale, Shriram 09-05-202409-05-2025IND
680Jayakumar, Balakirthika 20-05-202420-05-2025IND
681Pattabiraman, Ragunathan 18-06-202419-06-2025IND
682K.V., Anand 21-06-202421-06-2025IND
683Saxena, Praveen Kumar 01-07-202401-07-2025IND
684Ghosh, Sougata 21-08-202421-08-2025IND
685Alencar, Ofir Mario Dutra de 11-09-2024Life BRA

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SSL CERTIFICATE AND MOVE TO HTTPS

On 7th May 2024 we purchased an SSL Certificate from our GoDaddy provider and http://www.aiwcf.org became https://www.aiwcf.org. Although members were not facing any issue with http, but prospective new members filling the Membership Form, had to bypass the warning, hence we decided to take up the extra cost for an SSL Certificate.

What does HTTPS mean? In recent times cyber attacks have become common. With http, a hacker can intercept the data and get access to AIWCF passwords and moves. In https the data transmitted is encrypted. This is not really a concern because a hacker is unlikely to spend his time and effort to snoop into chess moves. You can compare it to the old days of postcard chess. The postcard is open and anyone (like the postman) can see your moves. However, we never bothered. Nowadays SSL certificate is considered a “must” so we went through with it.

YOUR-MOVE MOBILE APP STOPS WORKING

The mobile phone app Your Move has been popular with some of our players both for AIWCF and ICCF. It allows you to send your move using a simple mobile app instead of having to connect over web-browser. Most players prefer the large screen of a laptop and they use a laptop for analysis in Engine Allowed games. However, there is a sizeable section of users, especially players playing Engine Forbidden CC, who find it more convenient to send their moves from a mobile phone. The web-browser on the mobile phone can be used, but its interface is not very friendly on a small screen.

The app Your-Move was created and maintained by Asim Pereira who is a member of both AIWCF and ICCF. But since the past two years he has stopped support of this app. It is no longer available for download from Play Store. Those who already installed the app can no longer use it for for AIWCF after our shift to https.

Note that other XFCC programs like SCID-vs-PC and Aquarium continue to work. All you have to do is enter https://www.aiwcf.org/xfcc.php instead of http://www.aiwcf.org/xfcc.php in the app settings).

For a full explanation about using XFCC please refer to the user guide.

DEDICATED MOBILE INTERFACE

To provide an alternative to Your-Move for our members, we quickly created a small web application. By placing a shortcut to https://aiwcf.org/m.php on the home screen of your mobile phone, you can get the same functionality as Your-Move allowing you to send your moves easily. As explained in the guide:
This is a customised web application, designed to be light weight. It is run through the browser of your phone. The link is https://www.aiwcf.org/m.php.

You can create a shortcut for it on your phone's home screen for easy access.

Creating a short cut on your mobile phone home screen:
Open Chrome. Navigate to https://www.aiwcf.org/m.php. Tap the menu icon (3 dots in upper right-hand corner) and tap Add to home screen as shown below.

Joining Tournaments

Member Amit Kumar Sharma, pointed out that there was no way to take a look at the other players already registered before enrolling for an event. Accordingly we added another column "Show Players" in the interface for joining tournamnents. The picture alongside is for Engine Allowed Tournaments, and for Engine Forbidden Tournaments it is similar.

For your further suggestions please contact us.

Ambar Chatterjee
Software Developer
DrAmbar@gmail.com		 Rakesh Agrawal
Web Master
quizrakesh@gmail.com		 Sailesh Chandra
Secretary-cum-Treasurer