Is It Me Or Is There A Limit To How Long Variations Can Get?

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Hello,

is it me or is there a hard limit of 24 moves for recordable variations?

I just tried to record a ladder (yes, I still must SEE them to know how they go), and I wasn’t able to record it.

Reloaded the page, still the same … then I got an idea and tried to record a shorter part of it, and that worked, so I moved on step by step and it seems that 24 moves is the maximum recordable variation?

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Sorry to say, but it’s you :slight_smile:

obrazek
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At least on PC I can go on and on… And just tried mobile, also easily past 24

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Oh :flushed_face:

Now THAT’s weird … and I guess it’s not me but rather … Safari?
Or macOS?
Or is it one of my many plugins? (I have whitelisted OGS in all blockers though!)

Would be nice to find out the reason.

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OK, it seems you missed the “recordable” part of this:

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I’m on MacOS/Brave and I have certainly played out variations up to 100 moves long. I have also played out branches longer than 24 on iOS/Safari, I’m pretty sure. But what do you mean by “recordable”, I may be misunderstanding… what do you mean you weren’t able to record the whole ladder, but you were able to “record a shorter part of it”? Are you talking about copying and pasting branches from one review to another?

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I tested in an unrated game against myself. I can play out long variations, but if I want to save them in the chat (Malkovich or normal chat)

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the maximum length is 24 moves.

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Thanks for the confirmation, that’s exactly what I meant (and also WROTE above!), the RECORDABLE length, in game chat or Malkovich Log.

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Oh, yeah, sorry :man_facepalming: I should learn to read properly.

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Heh :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: I’m not telling how often that happens to me :winking_face_with_tongue:

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If there is a limit, it must be a fairly recent change. I have on many occasions recorded, in the “Personal” function of the game chat, a variation of 30 or more moves. I remember because i laughed at myself for recording something so long. On the other hand, it could be a limitation of the Malkovich log specifically. I don’t think I have ever tried to record something that long in a Malk log.

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Interesting: Right now I tried it again in a game I’m playing, and this time I could record a ladder up to 34 moves BUT NOT MORE, in MLog as well as in Game Chat.