<but the event category would then have gone down >

By an eyelash, I prefer "but the event category would have then gone down".

Maybe by some wild stroke of luck, the Cleveland Browns will have more wins this year than the New England Patriots.

vs.

Maybe by a wild stroke of luck, the Cleveland Browns will have more wins this year than the New England Patriots.

I think the first captures the sense of uncertainty and intrigue a little better, although the second is probably a little cleaner grammatically. But this is 51-49 in any case.

<Korchnoi gives his version of what happened in "Chess Is My Life". He suggests that Karpov pushed hard for Baturinsky, knowing it would upset him, that Rentero was complicit, etc. He says Short and Timman supported him, and, to the surprise of Karpov, also Beliavsky and Yusupov, whom Karpov may have regarded as 'comrades in arms'. Gulko apparently wanted to support him, but was fearful of losing the tournament if there were a mass withdrawal. Korchnoi appreciates this, and is not angry with Gulko, who had supported him in the past. He speculates that had Gulko openly supported him, then the consensus might have changed. Baturinsky would have been forced out, Karpov would withdraw, and the tournament would collapse.>

This is a little sloppy in verb tenses. I'd prefer a simple past tense in most cases:

<The 7th Torneo Internacional de Ajedrez "Ciudad de Linares" was organized under direction >

After sleeping on it, and consulting my Nitpickery Thesaurus, I now strongly prefer the much better:

Chessgames Country Codes

maybe for several years (modulo a few historical imperial additions).

Given the ongoing 43e Olympiad,

43rd Chess Olympiad (2018)

it's probably a good time to note the following codes are missing:

<CPV DJI ERI KOS LBN LBR NRU SGP SSD>

This list of CC3's can be culled out of the FIDE player_list:

http://ratings.fide.com/download.ph....

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Note that BUL is no longer used by FIDE. All Bulgaria players are currently registered under the FID (FIDE) country code. They are 7294 players under that federation designation.

I haven't checked the name matching on the <CG>-side of things, but the official site download is problematic, as concerns player names:

http://batumi2018.fide.com/en/pgn

(The R2 zip download actually includes two pgn's - one for each round)

The problem with the names is frustrating - the FIDE collated style is used, but the <comma is missing>!

Without the comma I'm worried that <CG> may be adding new player's with mangled names.

Also, the official PGN can be patched, given that they include the FIDE id's for each player. It's unfortunate that <CG> strips out the FIDE id in the PGN.

<We really should keep FIDE id's from tournament downloads.>

I'm sounding the alarm to check any/all new players just added to <CG> from this tournament (but see below).

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This guy should have more bio data copied over from his FIDE card (which can be automated), but the name is OK:

Baba Moulaye Abdalla Maiga

The more critical cases would be those with Spanish naming conventions - but I don't know if I have time to hunt an example out at the moment.

On the other hand, this Hong Kong player also gets the name <CG> correct:

Henry Ho In Hei

So maybe <CG> is using the FIDE id's for player names(?). Or maybe they're downloading the PGN from a different site?

David Daniel Camacho Campusano

Might be useful for <CG> to notify the <Bistro> with a list of new players created during all tournaments.

Delete "also".

I think this should be broken up into two sentences for clarity's sake. Perhaps:

A little sloppy. Perhaps: