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Mar-13-26
 | | WannaBe: ¡Olé! ¡Olé! this is what I see for "¡Olé! ¡Olé!" (game of the day Mar-13-2026) I also know this issue have been around for a while, and it's not that important, in IT term, it is a level 'C', cosmetic fix. But I just wish to report it again.
Can CG.com unify this Unicode of whatever the .pl (Perl) pages are using to display the different languages? Many AI bots now have programming aide, maybe this is something to look into? |
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Mar-13-26
 | | MissScarlett: Has <kev> run out of <POTD>s again? Maybe there's an AI tool out there that could do the job. |
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| Mar-13-26 | | stone free or die: For those finding <CG> is unworkable with the current ad regime: https://www.google.com/search?q=tur... It's far from a perfect fix, but at least allows access to the site. |
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Mar-13-26
 | | Check It Out: <Susan F> You should get on this ad thing, you are losing customers left and right. Check out this thread starting here: Adams vs Bluebaum, 2025 (kibitz #18) Though I recommend getting a premium membership, it shouldn't be mandatory to use the basic features of the site. |
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| Mar-14-26 | | stone free or die: OK, let's do the basics.
Ads are a fact of life on the internet. So are ad blockers. Sites have learned to reach some sort of equilibrium. Some sites have decided that allowing free viewing of their site, however constrained, is disallowed other than a quick preview. Their content is generally well-known already, and they want a subscriber only model (think the recent BBC or NYT vs. the Guardian model). OK, <Daniel>'s vision always included a non-paying option, even to the point of providing registration benefits beyond anonymous visitor viewing for non-premium members. Let's assume <CG> continues such a model. This would be in keeping with the bulk of other chess websites out there - including this non-exhaustive list: <chess.com, lichess, 365chess, chessbites, chesstempo, chessbase, twic, chessresults.com> etc. Let's call this "the competition".
I would suggest that <CG> compare their ad regime against any and all of "the competition". • How many ads do these other sites have? • How intrusive are these ads?
• How do these ads behave compared to <CG>? • How well do these ads match the interest of the site users? I believe one would discover a few interesting facts answering these basic questions. |
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Mar-14-26
 | | Susan Freeman: <SFoD> Many thanks. It's the placement that needs adjusting. CG just went back to the original ad people that Danny started with. I'm sure it will all be OK. |
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| Mar-14-26 | | stone free or die: I still recommend the consideration of the questions listed in my post. Thanks. |
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| Mar-14-26 | | mel gibson: Well - something changed today.
The site is OK with my desktop using the Brave browser - no adverts. With Firefox and an ad blocker it's OK but shows 104 ads were blocked. With Edge and no ad blocker there are heaps of adverts. It's still loaded with adverts on my Samsung mobile A35 and the site is not usable. I posted a solution here for today's puzzle.
Caruana vs Svidler, 2021 (move 26) |
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| Mar-15-26 | | stone free or die: Using <E-Z Search> to find potential games by <Eddington> I get this return screen message: <Sorry, we cannot interpret your search.> search "eddington" This is very misleading - the search term is properly interpreted, there just aren't any games for a player with that name. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/che... (Using the standard, non-<E-Z> search) It would be more professional if the <E-Z> search distinguished between a truly non-interpreted search term and a null search result. |
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Mar-15-26
 | | Czx: I have seen no comments on this: Since early February when you download a game it's now titled 'game_xxxxxxx.pgn' instead of the old format 'player1_player2_year'. Has no one else noticed this, or does it just bother no one else? |
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Mar-15-26
 | | offramp: There are a lot of good events going on.
I am a limey and I really like the look of this event: https://lichess.org/broadcast/briti... <British Rapidplay Championship 2026>. <"Maroroa Jones, Adams, Gormally">. Holiday Inn ̶B̶e̶i̶r̶u̶t̶ Peterborough.
If they ain't there, they ain't no one!! |
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| Mar-15-26 | | stone free or die: <Czx: I have seen no comments on this: Since early February when you download a game it's now titled 'game_xxxxxxx.pgn' instead of the old format 'player1_player2_year'.> Of course two players could have multiple games during the same year (w/same colors), so using the <gid> (game id) makes the download unique. Of course the verbose filename could just add the <gid> into it as well, to make it unique. Might be another case where the user could select an option for the format. This reminds me a bit of the annotation option - which <CG> did differently from how I would have. There isn't much real estate left to add another option, though this one might be more utilized. <Has no one else noticed this, or does it just bother no one else?> Still an open question. |
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Mar-15-26
| | Czx: The main problem with using the unique game id lies in the difficulty with searching through downloaded games. 'carlsen_caruana' will at least generate several options to check, whereas 'game_1234567' makes for rather a dead end. |
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Mar-16-26
 | | Willber G: <stone free or die: Of course the verbose filename could just add the <gid> into it as well, to make it unique.> The overhead of verbosity has long-since been a resource non-issue. I say show it all. |
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| Mar-16-26 | | stone free or die: <Willber G> Yes, I agree, that most likely should be the default. "Gone are the days of the 8.3's" |
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Mar-17-26
| | MissScarlett: <<British Rapidplay Championship 2026>.> It's 1100 games. Seems somewhat self-indulgent and provincial when many superior events are ignored. Of course, Britain is not just any province. |
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| Mar-17-26 | | stone free or die: Speaking of dusty bottles... |
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Mar-18-26
 | | FSR: I just submitted four 1971 games played by John Pike. I believe that he is the same person as John Edward Pike, so the games should use that name. |
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| Mar-18-26 | | stone free or die: <FSR> just so you know, if you know the <pid> of a player you can use it in your submissions and you needed worry about the exact name (which could change at the whim of a super-editor at any moment). |
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Mar-18-26
| | FSR: <sfod> So I would submit (e.g.) John Edward Pike as the player's name? |
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Mar-18-26
| | FSR: <Messiah> got booted? I would take him over <The Integrity> any day of the week. <The Integrity> is an obnoxious Nazi who hacked the site and pollutes the Politics page with his awful offal. And he's not a premium member, so you don't even get $39 a year to put up with his incessant crap. But obviously some people like Nazis. |
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| Mar-18-26 | | stone free or die: <FSR> the exact name doesn't matter if you include the
<ChessgamesWhiteID> and/or
<ChessgamesBlackID> PGN tags with the <pid>. (Sorry, but I advocated for the functionality, but not the verbosity of the tagging) |
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Mar-18-26
| | FSR: <sfod> So the tag would be, say, [ChessgamesWhiteID "226839"] ? |
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| Mar-18-26 | | stone free or die: In this case, yes.
Specifying the <CG> <pid> overrides the submitted PGN name and the uploader will add the game there, using the <CG> name. I got <Daniel> to add this functionality, I believe because I had two players with the exact same name active at roughly the same time. I think <JQF> was the only other person to utilize this till now (not sure though, I'm not as active in bio stuff as I once was). |
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| Mar-18-26 | | stone free or die: The question occurs to me if the <FIDE id> is utilized for player identification? I know for certain that <Daniel> had the <CG> id as top dog, but I don't know if he established a hierarchy - <CG>, <FIDE>, <player name> for identification. Of course the uploader shouldn't use nonsense <id>'s, as I saw in a post that someone submitted a game with <FIDE> id = -1. Obviously, the uploader should simply ignore the id tag(s) in such case(s). . |
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