<ooda: I'm sure you know about it but the Naka-Carlsen blitz match on chess.com should be pretty huge!> We normally don't get excited about Blitz matches but this one is a dream come true.

<Gottschalk: Gentlemen,please, Apparently the webmaster refuses to add games sent by me, because I posted many games and entire tournaments.> That's sadly somewhat true. Your file has become so many megabytes that the only way we could deal with it is to spend a few days processing it piecemeal. You're not the only one in that position.

There is a solution to this dilemma: a promise we've been hearing about for years, to create a streamlined upload system that allows individuals to upload games without any need for "the webmaster to add them." When this system is in place, the very first thing I will do is take hundreds of thousands of backed-up queue games over the years and dump them all into the new "Sandbox", Gottschalk's included.

When that day comes, you'll understand why it's been such a long slog accepting uploads. The quality ranges from perfect to horrible, and often things that look one way are the other. It's a multi-part process: looking over the PGN, making edits, uploading it, checking it again, taking the games that don't work, examining them by eye, making more edits, etc.; in extreme cases, I've literally spent the better part of an hour uploading a single game submitted by a user.

This is why PGN uploads have been limited lately to projects that the Biographer Bistro has been working on.

As most of you know, the order of the general game lists are not presented in pure date order, but rather they are ordered by the year alone, so that tournaments played in the same year can appeared "shuffled" amongst each other, and there's no guarantee that the final games in a game list are actually chronologically final.

For instance, if you go to a page of (say) Hikaru Nakamura the final page of his games will not necessarily show his most recent efforts, but rather a gumbo of all of his games in 2016.

The site is currently undergoing an experiment to see if we can fix that. It required reindexing several tables on the larger date field than the tidy year-field. A few extra bytes, but this is 2016 and a gigabyte isn't the monster it used to be.

So now, if you go to player pages you'll now see the sort order in a more sane format! The pure-date order actually works (provided, of course, that we actually know the dates to the games.)

Which song is your preference then, Jeff Buckley or Leonard Cohen?

(Or the Bon Jovi?)

It's a happy good new to know
that someday, we want to be soon, it will be available a new system to upload PGN.

What makes you think that the others who violate the rules aren't also being given infractions as well?

From the above, I make the following suggestions:

First you must seek the help of a professional chessplayer who wishes to help, I think it will not be difficult to find one in New York. After a few hours, this master will broadcast you tips on how to operate a ChessBase program. Tips that sometimes chessplayers know, but you will not find in the ChessBase manual. So, this will help immensely, your job to sort games by ECO, year, transfer thousands of games at once, assign city / location to hundreds of games ...

Second, you can do an online search on the likes of member users. I can say I like almost everything So, before you submit a form to us, find where there may be conflict of interest. I think everyone will be for the maintenance of GOTD and master-move, then think about what the members would like to change to know the level of satisfaction. Even to know which resources should be more visible.

Finally, on the Fischer games, most refers to simultaneous at Wichita, 1964 and the level of play of opponents it's uninteresting. However, there are other. And when in doubt of authenticity, I promise to consult the views of this forum

Even better than imagined.

<OhioChessFan: <Gotts> here's a problem with the one <Wannabe> referenced:

<30. Nxf6 $1 Be3+ >>

Please excuse the naive question, but why is that a problem? Can't you just delete the "$1" and resubmit?

* * * * *

For those unfamilar with PGN NAG's(*):

$1 = !

Fairly standard stuff, and easy to parse/strip out.

(*) NAG = Numeric Annotation Glyphs

You are right, these lists change over time, and the early games have a kind of head-start. If the most mind-blowing masterpiece of 2016 happens to be played in December, it will be unlikely to appear on the top-10 list until sometime in 2017.

Louis Stumpers (kibitz #7767)