ganstaman Member since Jan-18-06 · Last seen Sep-02-10 Welcome! Discuss anything here -- really, I'll take any visitors I can get! <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> For anyone wondering about the scary looking avatar: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front... . See, just a harmless painting... I'm a 25 year old med school student in New Jersey, USA. I majored in computer science for my undergrad. I just hope my 4 years of learning about computers aren't wasted. My grandfather taught me chess when I was young (can't remember when). I've been playing progressively more seriously over the past 8 years or so. I seem to only be playing on gameknot now (same name there and here -- http://gameknot.com/stats.pl?gansta...). I'm currently 1538 USCF after 20 games at local tournaments (all G/30, I blame my losses on the clock and bad luck...). And now, some pages here I want bookmarked (you should check them out too!): In case I get back into playing the Bird, I should know some From's Gambit (1. f4 e5) stuff: T Taylor vs J Becerra-Rivero, 2005 Just because it's my favorite Bird (how could it not be -- it's exactly what white wants to get when playing it): Lasker vs J Bauer, 1889 A few game collections for learning better defense: 1) Game Collection: The Art Of Defense In Chess 2) Game Collection: Defense by COUNTERATTACK 3) Game Collection: Defensive Gems 4) Game Collection: Hard fought defend! And finally Fischer playing the Benoni: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... and Tal: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... and Botvinnik on the Pirc: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Nimzowitsch vs Spielmann, 1927 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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Aug-19-10 French Championship (2010)    ganstaman: The French Defense is currently +2 -2 =2 in this championship if I'm counting correctly. I was hoping for somewhat better.      Aug-19-10 Nakamura vs Van Wely, 2010    ganstaman: <Obviously they both knew this game, but Van Wely had annotated it for the forthcoming issue of New In Chess. And in his comments he had indicated that on move 12 Black cannot play 12…Nd7 (the only move is 12…Ng4) because of the continuation 13.Nd5 Qc5 14.Nb3 Qc6 15.Na5 Qc5 ...      Aug-16-10 F Berkes vs Timman, 2010   ganstaman: For a 25 move draw in the English, this game is actually interesting. Black goes down 2 exchanges, but the white pieces aren't really set up for black's piece storm (well, doesn't look like white can win with the extra material, at least). Black then gives up a knight to secure ...      Jul-27-10 Battle of the Brains 3, 2009    ganstaman: Nice game all. Congrats to Black! My only question before reading some posts is: did Team Black expect white to resign earlier? Was anyone offended that we didn't?      Jun-12-10 10th International Computer Tournament (2010)    ganstaman: <benjinathan: <I love these computer tournaments. Lots of decisive games.> I noticed that too. I wonder if that suggests that chess isn't really "a draw" as is iften asserted?> And black wins more than white! I believe I've seen this before in at least 1 other comp. ...      Jun-06-10 WannaBe chessforum    ganstaman: I have a computer question update from September: ganstaman chessforum      Jun-06-10 ganstaman chessforum    ganstaman: <WannaBe: Let me know if you ever solve why POST doesn't work... Nice info to have and hold in my little brain for future references. =)> To the curious, the problem was solved. Here's a thread I started on another forum. At the end (at least the end as of my writing this), ...      May-19-10 suenteus po 147 chessforum    ganstaman: 2008 New Year's tournament on gameknot ( http://gameknot.com/mt.pl?id=26786 ) is finally over! I've finally managed to lose the last 2 games. It's been a fun 2 years, so thanks for putting this together. And congrats to Open Defence for coming in 1st!      May-06-10 Anand vs Topalov, 2010    ganstaman: <majnu108: <ajile> Give Rybka a rest and stop boring us. Try and use your own brain for a change> Some of us appreciate it. You can just not read his posts if you don't want to. There's no need to be mean to each other.      May-06-10 Beliavsky vs Adams, 1989    ganstaman: Is white really winning after move 24? Where did black go wrong?

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< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 12 OF 12 ·  Later Kibitzing > Sep-01-09    WannaBe: See if this tutorial is helpful... http://www.tutorialspoint.com/perl/... Sep-01-09    ganstaman: <WannaBe> Eh, it's just disheartening. I went to the section <Passing Radio Button Data to CGI Program> and copied the code onto the server. It doesn't work for me (same problem as I was having before). I guess that could be expected given that it has the same 'read' line for getting the post data. So I'm wondering now if this is actually a problem with the code instead of a problem with the website/server stuff in some way. But I don't know what sort of problem that could be. Sep-01-09    WannaBe: <ganstaman> It shouldn't be that aggrevating... =) Do it in steps.... From what I gathered, you are using 2 .pl files, and the second one is the one taking care of the data... 1) Comment out every line, or save/rename the existing files in a different place. 2) Start fresh, only copy the section of code that read in the value, and only have the second file print out that value. <NOTHING ELSE>!!! 3) Make sure you can get the value that you 'think' you are getting from the first file to the second file. Display that value. 4) Then try to split them up print out the values. <NOTHING ELSE, LEAVE THE <SPLIT> CODE OUT>!!! 5) And do what you need do. Sep-01-09    WannaBe: <ganstaman> Why radio? You are expecting a string as input right? You are then splitting it? Sep-01-09    ganstaman: Ok, so I'm not even splitting it anymore. Just reading in the $data variable and printing it out. If I use GET, then $data = $ENV<'QUERY_STRING'> (where <> is really curly brackets) and that works out fine ($data is "asdf=2"). If I use POST and $data = read(STDIN, $data, $ENV<'CONTENT_LENGTH'>) then $data is an empty variable, and CONTENT_LENGTH is 6. I just can't use GET for the actual webpage because there's too much data to fit into the url (about 340 radio button's worth of info). So maybe it would seem that the data isn't being sent to STDIN. But then where is it? What other options do I have? To google I go...! Sep-01-09    ganstaman: <WannaBe: <ganstaman> Why radio? You are expecting a string as input right? You are then splitting it?> The first html page is a bunch of radio buttons to select yes or no to a bunch of questions. That is then being sent to the second page where the perl code should be able to read it (so, for example, radio button named "first_stu4526" has the value of "1", so the string being read would contain ...&first_stu4526=1&...). Sep-01-09    ganstaman: Some related entertainment: http://xkcd.com/519/ Sep-01-09    WannaBe: Hmmmm... Using post, the CONTENT_LENGTH is correct, asdf=2 is length of 6... but why is it not showing up?? =( Sep-03-09    OhioChessFan: <Anyway, your suggestion of $pairs causes the thing to crash. > You get what you pay for! Sep-07-09    WannaBe: <ganstaman> You were able to collect all the info with <GET> instead of <POST> ?? Sep-07-09    ganstaman: <WannaBe: <ganstaman> You were able to collect all the info with <GET> instead of <POST> ??> Yes, GET works great. Though I did have to cut down on the amount of data I wanted to send at once (apparently, I think I saw that URLs have length limits, and I wanted to send about 340 sets of ...&abcdefg=y&...). Sep-07-09    WannaBe: Let me know if you ever solve why POST doesn't work... Nice info to have and hold in my little brain for future references. =) Sep-16-09    Open Defence: Hi, your time is down to about 2 hours in our gameknot game!! Sep-17-09    Open Defence: great!, for a moment I thought you might miss move time!! Sep-24-09    Open Defence: hi you are probably aware, but I thought I would remind you anyway, your time is down to 16 hours in our gameknot game.. Sep-25-09    OhioChessFan: Be sure to stop by my forum for the Pearl Spring Moves Prediction Conteset. Pairings to be announced Sunday? OhioChessFan chessforum Oct-02-09    chessmoron: <ganstaman> Are you familiar with html? http://processing.org . Send you an e-mail, hope you have free time helping me. Nov-04-09    OhioChessFan: Be sure to check out my forum for the Tal Memorial Moves Prediction Contest starting tomorrow. Click on Elvis for details. Dec-24-09    chessmoron: <ganstaman> Season's Greeting. Thanks for everything that made my contest a success. Dec-25-09    Open Defence: Merry Christmas!!! Dec-25-09    chancho: Merry Christmas ganstah! Jan-10-10    ganstaman: <chessmoron>, <Open Defence>, and <chancho>: sorry for the long delay. I always forget to check my forum for messages, and it was worse over my winter break as I only had my blackberry for checking this site, and then scrolling down the forum would have taken too long. But thanks for the well wishes, hope all went well for you guys over the holidays. I just hope you guys read this, but I don't want to otherwise post this same message in 3 different places. May-04-10    Open Defence: thanks for 2 very enjoyable tactical games. No doubt I am pleased to end up on the winning side but I found the tactics very interesting, very different to the games I normally play at Gameknot. Winning this tournament ahead of Wagenaar and Switching was a real feat, one I am very proud of. I am planning a break from chess so it might be some time till we play again. Good luck in your studies and other endeavours! Jun-06-10    ganstaman: <WannaBe: Let me know if you ever solve why POST doesn't work... Nice info to have and hold in my little brain for future references. =)> To the curious, the problem was solved. Here's a thread I started on another forum. At the end (at least the end as of my writing this), I let everyone know what solution worked: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/4... Jun-07-10    WannaBe: thanks for the update, I read all the posts, and most of the codes, only if I can comprehend 1/2 of the codes without having to trying them out! Long live Java, death to scripting languages! =) Jump directly to page #    (enter number from 1 to 12) < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 12 OF 12 ·  Later Kibitzing >		Become a Premium Chessgames Member today!

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