First check the bloody player names in the database and then copy them (if necessary) into the PGN, surname first then a comma and then the first name.

I never understood <Switch>'s support of that protocol - other than it being grandfathered.

It would be trivially easy to go from FIDE, or collating format to non-collating, but much more difficult the other way.

So <CG> should store in FIDE format, and have a user option for backwards compatibility.

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<Snark alert>

But you guys are pretty much hopeless(*), when it comes to PGN/database issues - and I won't be holding my breath waiting for fixes.

After all, as some have noted elsewhere, <CG> is a legacy site.

(*) E.g. see multi-site tag discussion, etc.

</Snark off>

A history of all your recent analysis is held in the Laboratory.

At first, I went through world championship won games only, but later I changed to complete matches. I have since been working forward from Steinitz - Zukertort World Championship Match (1886) to Alekhine - Euwe World Championship Match (1935). I appear to have been distracted at some stage and left Steinitz - Gunsberg World Championship Match (1890) unfinished.

So I have to actually think, at least to some extent, and select interesting positions?

OK - I think I'll run the games through SCID blunder check first, to try to find the positions.

This means I'll be working at a slower rate than I expected - since I thought the computers would be doing all the work.

OK, with that cavaet - I assume you want me to do thos games in <Steinitz--Gunsberg (1890)> that don't have a chemistry flask icon.

<Annie K> I am so sorry- I have tried to upload this pgn twice now and I finally figured out that it had a malformed site field.

I have fixed it now- I think this should make it through the PGN Upload machine:

[Event "Match Latvia SSR - Lithuania SSR"]
[Site "Riga URS"]
[Date "1941.??.??"]
[EventDate "1941.03.30"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dreibergs, Leonids"]
[Black "Abramavicius, Leonardus"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Source "rusbase"]

Guess <Tab>'s never done the computer thing.

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<Classical> I'm a little confused - I only have 2000 fuel units, and don't exactly want to squander them.

The cookbook question becomes - how do you select the positions to analyze, and how deep do you go (i.e. how many fuel units for a given position)? And if you want a run over the entire game, then how much fuel/move?

Given that the "fuel" is being rationed, some consideration for appropriations is appropriate.

Unless you think a low-level blunder-type pass (at what? 4 fuel units/move?) is the ticket.

Sorry to belabor the point - but you've already had some experience.

E.g.
Gunsberg vs Steinitz, 1890 [analysis]

says Stockfish was run at min 6s/ply (which is a bit fast imo) - I assume for all the moves in the game, correct?

How much fuel/move does this translate to?

Steinitz vs Gunsberg, 1890

Just started it. I suppose <Daniel> didn't set up a notification for when it finishes. But I'll check back later tonight.

<chessical> sorry, but due to political, er, "difficulties", I won't be able to help you in your project.

Just as well, I suppose. I hope others recognize your contributions and support your efforts. I know I have.

I hereby grant <CG> express permission to transfer any/all of my fuel credits to <chessical>.

Let's do some more tournament name normalizations en masse after I clear out the upload queue, and some more slips. ;)

J H Turner

<<While some of the players upon the political chess board are making but a sorry figure at the moves, there is a real game of chess in progress here, wherein the parties concerned are covering themselves with merited glory. The competitors are C. H. Stanley, Esq., a native of England, but for the last eight years a resident in New York, and James H. Turner, Esq., of Lexington, Kentucky. The stakes are $1000 to the winner of the first eleven games. The match commenced on Monday last, the 11th instant, when Mr. Stanley won three games, and a fourth was drawn. On Tuesday, Mr. Stanley won two games and Mr. Turner two. This morning (Wednesday) Mr. Turner was the winner of the only game which has been played up to dinner time. The longest game yet disposed of, was that of to-day, which lasted two hours and twenty minutes; the shortest, a very brilliant one, in which Mr. Stanley was victor, was over in twenty minutes. Great interest prevails here regarding this war of skill, but only in consequence of Mr. Stanley’s established reputation as the best chess player in America, and the high value set upon Mr. Turner’s capabilities wherever he is known; but because the contest is carried on in a most chivalrous spirit, and with an unfeigned appreciation on either side of the qualities and skill of the other.>-New York Herald, Morning Edition, 1850.02.16, p1> https://www.newspapers.com/image/46...

<<Rachel E. Turner, a native of Montgomery County, Ky., is a daughter of Rezin H. and Rachel Gist. [...] Rachel E. Turner received a good education, principally at Winchester and Richmond, Ky.; she married James H. Turner, March 3, 1846. He was born in Fayette County, Ky., September 30, 1822, received a good education and was a graduate of law at Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky.; he was also a man of fine literary attainments; after practicing law several years he gave up the profession to engage in agricultural pursuits, his wife having inherited the old homestead; he afterward represented the County of Montgomery in the Legislature. He enlisted in the Federal army in the war between the States, but on account of his health failing resigned and died very soon after, October 23, 1863, leaving five children [...]> Kentucky: A History of the State, 8th Edition, Louisville 1888, p997> https://books.google.com/books?id=q...

James H. Turner was probably a gentleman farmer, and no longer practicing law, in 1850; see <<Löwenthal's Visit to America> The Book of the First American Chess Congress, pp391-394> https://books.google.com/books?id=_...

John Spencer Turner

<<John Spencer Turner was born in Philadelphia on March 3, 1830; when old enough he apprenticed himself to the trade of sailmaking and rigging, and twelve years later was admitted to the firm of Gilbert, Hubbard & Co. In 1867 he moved to New York and connected himself with the commission firm of Theodore Polhemus & Co. After many changes in the firm he took control of the business, which he still retains. He is married and resides at 57 Remsen street. He is vice-president of the Hamilton Club and a member of the Crescent Athletic, Brooklyn, and Brooklyn Chess clubs, and the Merchants' and Union League clubs of New York. He is a life member of the Brooklyn Library Association. He is a 32° Mason, and is president of the board of trustees of the Strong place Baptist Church. In politics he has always been a staunch Republican.> The Eagle and Brooklyn: The Record of the Progress of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Howard, Volume 2, 1893, p1015> https://books.google.com/books?id=S...

<Steamed Colleagues>

I am going to submit some games from this Latvian chess player, and I want to be sure not to create a new player page if one already exists with a different spelling.

<Valerians Indulens> https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valer...