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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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Mar-21-26
| | MissScarlett: <<<British Rapidplay Championship 2026>.> It's 1100 games.>
A good compromise might be to just upload Waldhausen Gordon's 11 games. |
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Mar-24-26
 | | Check It Out: New behavior, possibly related to whatever CG was doing this morning to the site, after you click on the the engine analysis link, when you click on the "review analysis using Olga" link it no longer functions. |
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Mar-24-26
 | | Susan Freeman: <CIO> There was some malware. It's being adressed Thank you for bringing this to CG's attention. |
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Mar-24-26
| | Willber G: With these weird things happening maybe it's time to revisit this: <Aug-07-22 George Wallace: Now about sock accounts, well, they might be necessary now that tyranny and censorship is back in power here at <CG>.I have a contractor from Bangladesh who screwed up a job I put him on. He wants to get more gigs from me, but he's in the dog house. I wouldn't even have to pay him anything, not a dime, for him to use a VPN and create 1000 accounts over the next year, every day, a few here and there. All I have to do is make it an addon to the next job and he'll do it for free. Different IP addresses every time (down to the Class C IP), different locations, different emails - very easy. Just sayin', it will take me ZERO time to adjust if I have to, or if I want to.> |
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Mar-24-26
| | Susan Freeman: < Willber G: With these weird things happening maybe it's time to revisit this:> Intersting. Thank you for reminding me. |
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| Mar-25-26 | | stone free or die: I'm curious - if <CG> bans a premium account user are their subscription fees returned? Perhaps on a pro-rated basis?
(Lifetime memberships would be based on actuary tables presumably!) Elsewhere on the site, there was a claim that the fee was forfeited, but somehow I doubt that. Not a pressing question - but I was wondering. |
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Mar-25-26
 | | OhioChessFan: Game of the Year never updated for 2025.
Notable Chess Games of the 2020s |
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Mar-25-26
| | OhioChessFan: Teacher, teacher, while you were gone, Johnny was shooting spitballs. |
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| Mar-25-26 | | stone free or die: Gotta new name for <OCF> - the spitball kid. Stealthy lad. |
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Mar-25-26
| | Willber G: <OhioChessFan: Teacher, teacher, while you were gone, Johnny was shooting spitballs.> Teacher, teacher, while you were gone, Georgey was threatening to burn the school down. |
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