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Jun-17-13
 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM> Here is a <SUGGESTION>: <<have links that contain all the tacitcal puzzles for a given day>> 1) One link to all the MONDAY puzzles
2) A second link to all the TUESDAY puzzles
etc.
This would make it very easy for us users to work on puzzles of a fixed difficulty level. That is, if I want to solve some "Very Easy" puzzles, I can just clock the "MONDAY" link and voila!, lots of easy puzzles to solve. Thanks |
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Jun-17-13
 | | Karpova: <chessgames.com> the player in question is Georg Rotlewi and he already has a notable game collection - Game Collection: All Russian Amateur (St. Petersburg, 1909) (so nothing focusing on him specifically). |
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Jun-17-13
 | | chessgames.com: I may have oversimplified the situation earlier when I said that it's done daily. True, a script run daily, but that script doesn't reprocess every single player. It starts off recomputing players who are in the most dire need of recomputing (the ones who have had games added or deleted) and then it goes on a short spree recomputing some of the other players, focusing on the ones that have been waiting the longest. So in short, it would have refreshed at some point, but God knows when. I just forced a reprocess of Rotlewi's page and sure enough Karpova's collection showed up, in the #1 spot even. |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: <notyetagm> That's a undeniably useful idea. We do plan on implementing some kind of feature of the type you describe, but until that day, I believe Phony Benoni has some excellent game collections which encapsulate that concept. For example see Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2013. |
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Jun-17-13
 | | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
I don't mind if you think my suggestion is a bad or discarded idea. I was just wondering. |
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Jun-17-13
 | | OhioChessFan: <nyag> in the meantime, <PhonyBenoni> collects all of them. phony benoni's Game Collections |
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Jun-17-13
| | OhioChessFan: My wish list is a link to the tournament page on live game pages. |
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Jun-17-13
 | | whiteshark: Women Grand Prix has started in Dilijan, Armenia
Tournament page: http://dilijan2013.fide.com/ |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: <twinlark> Sorry, your suggestion deserved a well thought response and I wasn't sure what to say at first. About <"slightly specific" pages>, or what you might call "less specific" pages. I can imagine the topics you have in mind would be things like the interzonals which you mentioned, the Grand Prix circuit, FIDE in general, USCF politics, and just recently somebody was looking for a place to discuss computers in chess. We have 500 pages to discuss specific openings, but where do we go to discuss opening play in general? In some rare cases a user has dedicated a chess forum to a topic. The most notable example being M61MG Wrestler chessforum (which has now been granted an honorary lifetime status). But it's unrealistic and undesirable to go through that process for every topic that people might want to discuss. So the question comes, how to do it? If we allow any user to make any thread on demand, we'd run into some problems with duplicity, vanity, and more. If admins "bless" certain subjects and grant forums for that purpose, sort of like with the Biographer Bistro, we'd certainly accomplish much of what your asking although we'd undoubtably leave out many important topics. In short, I think it's a good and well intentioned idea but exactly how we would go about it from a managerial point of view is still a bit unclear. |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: <OhioChessFan: My wish list is a link to the tournament page on live game pages.> Click on "All Rounds" to the right of the diagram. |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: FIDE Women's Grand Prix Dilijan (2013) |
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Jun-17-13
| | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
<If admins "bless" certain subjects and grant forums for that purpose, sort of like with the Biographer Bistro, we'd certainly accomplish much of what your asking although we'd undoubtably leave out many important topics.> Yes, although each one you do add would reduce the number of important topics that are presently lacking discussion pages. |
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Jun-18-13
 | | Thanh Phan: I see nothing wrong with <MarkFinan>s request. If anything is more damaging to this site then his comment, it would be the Rogoff page. Yet many agree that helps focus the political kibitzing to one page |
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Jun-18-13
 | | Eyal: <CG> The time controls for the Tal Memorial posted on the live broadcast page (Start with 100 minutes. At move 40, add 50 minutes. At move 60, add 15 minutes and 15s/move thereafter) are inaccurate - there's a 30s increment, and it starts from move 1. See section 4 of the regulations - http://russiachess.org/upload/ibloc... |
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Jun-18-13
| | chessgames.com: Thanks Eyal. |
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Jun-18-13
 | | Tiggler: Do you have any news about a fresh Java problem?
I just got a warning about an obsolete java version that popped up when I visited one of your games pages. The pop-up took me to a download site that looked legit, but when I used it my security software warned me about an unsafe, unsigned source, so I bailed. I'm about ready to give up on Java altogether. |
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Jun-18-13
 | | Robed.Bishop: <Tiggler> I use an Apple and also received the update pop-up when going to a game page. I ran the update without an issue. |
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Jun-18-13
| | Tiggler: <Robed.Bishop> Thanks. I'll just wait awhile though, 'cos I'm the cautious type. I can manage without any cg.com games for the moment. Chessbomb has the Tal Memorial games, and I can still kibitz here. |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Alien Math: About Java for OS X 2013-003
Apple on Tuesday released a pair of Java SE 6 updates for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion, by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_45.As of this writing, the updates have yet to hit Apple's Support Downloads webpage, but the software should be ready for download shortly. Snow Leopard users can get the 69.39MB update here http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573 while Macs running Lion and Mountain Lion can download the 63.92MB update here. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572 |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Alien Math: Apple various d/l page http://support.apple.com/downloads/ |
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Jun-19-13
 | | playground player: Suddenly this site won't let me look at games anymore. I have no idea what the message in the box means. I do not speak computerese--nary a word of it. But I do want to be able to view games. What gives? |
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Jun-19-13
 | | WannaBe: <playground player> What did the message say? Are you using Chess Viewer Deluxe? |
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| Jun-19-13 | | Alien Math: <playground player> Which version you have? Mac, iphone or windows? Also are able to test if java working
http://www.java.com/en/download/tes... |
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Jun-19-13
| | playground player: <Esteemed Colleagues> Thanks for the advice; but in the interim, I delegated the problem to <Mrs. PGP> and she fixed it, so now I can see the games again. Computer stuff just frazzles me. It's like high school chemistry--I just can't learn it, just don't get it, nothing will stick to the brain, etc. |
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Jun-19-13
| | Tiggler: <playground> I am glad you have <Mrs. PGP> to help. I was going to suggest using <Mr. PGN>. This can be done by chosing the pgn4web option as your pgn viewer. Pretty clunky compared to the java viewer, though. Nicest thing about that is the ability to move the pieces and create a tree of variations. |
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