Can we please have a forum for the <16TH EUROPEAN INDIVIDUAL CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP (EICC)>, which just started today in Jerusalem?

When two cats are both active, like to play, and most importantly, like to play <with each other>, it's a pity to separate them. But if they are not good friends, separating them is ok, and then - if they are the social type - maybe find each a more compatible playmate.

But note that Bjorn and his IM brother Bragi often spell their surname in Icelandic, where a single letter, Thorn, stands for 'th'. It's the same letter that was once used in Old English - it looks a bit like a 'Y', which led to phrases like 'Ye Olde Shoppe'. But it's not a Y, it's Th.

The Bunratty site uses Thorn in several places. Chessgames (also correctly) usually has Thorfinnsson. But the homepage Bunratty pointer has 'Yorfinnsson', which is wrong.

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<chessgames> can I ask if I ever submitted a bunch of games for <Subotica izt (1987)>?

In other words, can your records be consulted so you could tell one way or the other if I did?

<Annie> No problem — payoff has been "undone". Just pay it off again.

Almost. The 'u' is superfluous.

<zanzibar: <<Domdaniel> Aha, you are a bit of a polyglot after all!>>

<"The entirety of our translation in the feature article Alekhine on Munich, 1941 has been reproduced by chessgames.com without permission, a total of 1,325 words."> posted at http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...

(Didn't we go through virtually the same thing with a Sport Illustrated reproduction a while back?)

Quoting Alekhine for the purpose of discussion is fine, but if you want to refer the reader to an entire online article, a link is all that's required.

Also, the copyright status on the work is unclear. Assuming Winter obtained permission to reproduce the article himself (which is required if you intend on translating it), the translation itself represents a separate creative effort. The owner of the original copyright maintains rights over both works, to which the copyright in the translation is subordinate. However, if the article is deemed to be in the public domain (which is quite possible under a variety of circumstances) then Winter would maintain the copyright on his particular translation. In either case, permission is required from at least one party.

For those who don't know how this works, this is the page where you can submit your puns — Pun Submission Page

And this is the page where you can review puns that you've submitted (and now delete the lemons) — Pun Submission Page

Is it possible to "edit" a submission by deleting a submission, and then re-submitting it as something slightly different?

[Event "Biel izt (FIDE 1993)"]
[Site "Biel, SUI"]
[Date "1993.??.??"]
[Round "13"]
[White "Salov, Valery"]
[Black "Gelfand, Boris"]
[WhiteChessgamesID "13983"]
[BlackChessgamesID "13847"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[EventDate "1993.07.??"]
[PlyCount "21"]
[TimeControl "40/7200:20/3600:1800"]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.cxd5 cxd5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bf4 Bf5 7.e3 e6 8.Bd3 Bxd3 9.Qxd3 Bd6 10.Bxd6 Qxd6 11.O-O 1/2-1/2

Submitted together with a few other games that were missing from <Biel izt 1993> that seem to have shown up.

In fact, there is this game:

Seirawan vs Granda Zuniga, 1993

also a 12-move GM draw.

Can <CG> check it's records to tell me what happened here?

I know it seems like a bug to reject games that are move-for-move identical with others, knowing very well that GM draws occur all the time, but believe me when I say that all of the alternatives we've explored are far worse.