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Jun-16-17
 | | Tabanus: Luckenbach may have been the original spelling, but Lukenbach in the censuses, marriage and death records. John Washington Lukenbach is based on the marriage record (if it's him), <thomastonk>'s "J. Wash Lukenbach" (which I can't find), and the lack of other candidates. |
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Jun-16-17
 | | Phony Benoni: The following was recently posted in my forum, but I was unable to be of any help. The questions are not easily answerable. <Latviandevi>l: I am searching two games of our GM Arturo Pomar in US Open 1954, rounds 3 and 9, this one against Great Nicolas Rossolimo. Also Crosstable/games of North Central Open Ch. in Milwaukee 1955 (94 players). Pomar dis many simultaneous in 1952, 1954 and 1955 too; I have some information about but I will appreciatte more !. ANY HELP ? Phony Benoni chessforum (kibitz #22047) |
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| Jun-16-17 | | zanzibar: Uncle SCID's tailor has added some new buttons to his suitcoat... EDO chess, CG, and Wiki links for certain given player bios. Has anybody found most of the old buttons useful? (VIAF, DNB, and some weird German links which don't seem to work anymore). I also finally figured out how to properly add player photos (low-res 80x100). Still, I won't have to beg, borrow, or cajole to get my submissions uploaded. |
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Jun-17-17
 | | MissScarlett: <Tab>, need a rundown on Robinson Kay Leather. |
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Jun-18-17
| | Tabanus: <MissS> Changed b. year to 1864. I can't find him in the 1891 census. Probably he was hiding from the public in Amos Burn's house. |
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Jun-18-17
 | | Chessical: I have submitted Game Collection: Mieses - Taubenhaus as a pendant to Game Collection: Mieses vs Teichmann, 1895. Both are open for voting. |
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| Jun-19-17 | | Paint My Dragon: <MissScarlett: ... need a rundown on Robinson Kay Leather> I read this as ... "need a rubdown with Cussons Imperial Leather". Does this make me a bad person? |
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| Jun-20-17 | | zanzibar: <PmD> no, unless an overactive imagination is a bad thing. http://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/l... . |
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| Jun-20-17 | | Paint My Dragon: Thanks <Zanzi>. Such a classy soap bar. Evocative advertising and a head office in Mayfair (Grosvenor Square, London W1), suggest an opulence that other cleaning products can only aspire to. |
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Jun-20-17
| | Tabanus: https://technabob.com/blog/wp-conte... is the soap to use, of course. With the classic burberry scent. For aftershave, I recommend https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.co... |
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| Jun-20-17 | | Paint My Dragon: Cheers <Tab>. I can't dispute that you have uncovered a nirvana for great smelling chess geeks everywhere. Burberry is of course the designer brand and not a long forgotten member of the Ericaceae family, in case anyone was wondering. |
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| Jun-21-17 | | zanzibar: It's a slow slough, but I've covered 50/216 x 100% of the Z-base v0.4 (i.e. pre-1899) tournament players. I've added photos for these players, some are new photos, a few others are just alternative photos. Let me give the list:
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Baird, David Graham
Barbour, Lorenzo D.
Blackburne, Joseph Henry
Burn, Amos
Calthrop, Samuel Robert
Caro, Horatio
Charousek, Rudolf (Rezso)
Clerc, Albert
Cohnfeld, Albert
Congdon, James Adams
D'Andre, Emile
Davidson, Harry L.
De Riviere, Jules Arnous
De Vere, Cecil Valentine
Dubois, Serafino
Elson, Jacob
Englisch, Berthold
Ettlinger, Alfred K.
Falkbeer, Ernst Karl
Fenton, Richard
Fiske, Daniel
Flechsig, Ernst
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Even world-class material is sometimes in need of correction - and some of the players were misidentified (e.g. Harry vs. Harold F. Davidson). Expect a new version someday... I haven't been super careful double-checking <CG> dates on this pass, trusting Wiki. Does <CG>'s play data download give dod in addition to dob? (I don't think so).
This is going slow, so I'll extend an invitation for some help. The idea is to encode bio data for players into a SCID .ssp file, e.g. spelling.ssp or rating.ssp. I'm doing zbase.ssp of course. EDO ratings are used, though I have to hack SCID's TCL to get a rating curve predating 1900. The main thing consuming the time is researching the literature for player photos that aren't in SCID's historic.spf. (Those aren't great hi-res photos, but 100x80 thumbnails. Still, it's nice to see a photo when looking at bio data. And I can do the mechanical photo-shopping given a good resolution photo.) Again - anybody interested in helping me find a few photos of players currently missing out? <CG> can utilize this work as well, of course. . |
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Jun-21-17
| | Tabanus: I made some edits to Mieses - Taubenhaus (1895), incl. game dates based on Sporting Life, 28 March 1895 (http://www.britishnewspaperarchive....), which seems to say (the text is blurred) they played two games on Monday 25th (and not on Sunday). |
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Jun-21-17
| | Tabanus: On Game Collection: Mieses vs Teichmann, 1895, the dates are very clear from the detailed (and not referred to) reports in London Evening Standard, 21 and 25 Feb 1895: 16, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 22 February. Please add those dates now, or after the 5th aye vote. |
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Jun-21-17
 | | chessgames.com: Chessical's idea has been implemented: the <vote on collections> link in the header above will now turn bold and bright red if there are actually things to vote on. |
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Jun-21-17
| | Tabanus: <CG> Another thing, looking now at Mieses - Taubenhaus (1895) one almost gets the impression it's my work. When clicking on "edit history", there is no info (correct me if I'm wrong) on who submitted it, only who edited it. This is when the usual "Original collection by ..." etc. is not added to the text. |
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Jun-21-17
| | Chessical: <Tabanus> I have added author's details as requested. Thank you for the reminder! |
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Jun-21-17
| | chessgames.com: <Tabanus: <CG> Another thing, looking now at Mieses - Taubenhaus (1895) one almost gets the impression it's my work.> No "almost" about it, that's definitely how it appears. I reviewed the data structures etc. for a moment to remind myself how this works. When the whole article-editing thing began (over a year ago, June 1st 2016) I made a table called ArticleArchives to go alongside the Article table. All of the articles written up to that point were inserted into the ArticleArchives and attributed to a fictitious user "system" (I had to do it that way, as there's no reasonable way to assigning them all to the actual authors.) So when you pull up one of those articles (take Edit History: Magnus Carlsen for example) you see first it belonged to <system> and then the names of all the editors who modified it. But this isn't always the case. When a new (i.e., after June 2016) article is edited, it always starts with the first entry being the first person to have "touched" it in any way, even if it was voted in by a number of editors. This could cause authorship confusion as you've noted. If there is some way that the edit-history page could denote that the original editor was not the original author, I'll do it. Or, if it makes people feel better, perhaps I can insert that "system" line in every edit history, just so nobody gets the wrong idea. |
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Jun-21-17
| | chessgames.com: <Z> <Does <CG>'s play data download give dod in addition to dob? (I don't think so).> Sure it does, the first line of http://www.chessgames.com/playerlis... reads pid | name | shortname | game_count | gender | born | <died> | country | nationality | fide_number | rating | fide_rating | fide_blitz | fide_rapid | biography |
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| Jun-21-17 | | zanzibar: Thanks <chessgames> - I haven't downloaded a version in a while, and am a bit rusty. Sorry about my mistake.
While I'm here - this link still doesn't work for non-editors: Game Collection Voting
I thought non-editors were to be allowed to follow the action - right? Or should I use a different link?
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Jun-21-17
| | chessgames.com: <I thought non-editors were to be allowed to follow the action - right?> I have nothing against it (and I doubt any other editors do either) — you're just the first person to ask for gallery seats. I can rig something up so it doesn't shut you out so rudely. |
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| Jun-21-17 | | zanzibar: <chessgames> we talked about this very issue about 3-4 weeks ago - and you expressed surprise that it wasn't that way already, and promised to fix it straight away. I don't see why to exclude the public from watching the process. Of course I understand the desire to restrict the voting, but not the viewing. BTW- I don't take it personally, so it's not really rude to me, so sugar-coating the exclusion isn't going to make me feel any better about it! . |
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| Jun-21-17 | | zanzibar: As often is the case, <jnpope> shows a good way to do it: http://www.chessarch.com/gallery/in... where the participants in the group photo are listed in plain text, and so scannable by search engines. Now if only the O'Keefe timeline can be OCR'ed!
PS- Does anybody know how difficult it is to merge a JPG and a TEXT file into a searchable HTML page? Delper and BDE and others do this pretty nicely. Old Fulton does too (though more quirky).
PDF does it - but not as nicely as HTML.
I wonder how it's done, technically.
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| Jun-21-17 | | zanzibar: No interest in doing the photographs?
Interesting little bits of history can be found this way, sometimes unique pieces relevant to the record. John Henry Smythe (kibitz #12) . |
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| Jun-21-17 | | zanzibar: One trouble with Winter is that he often doesn't even attempt to give English translations of foreign material. Google translate might be pathetic at times, but it's better than nothing. But what prompted this complaint is stuff like this: <These sketches appeared on page 345 of the 31 October 1857 issue of Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper:> What's missing is a list of those pictured.
That means a lot of potentially useful photos are hidden from discovery by search engines. |
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