You guys the new administration is trying hard and they are producing movement on game uploads and correction slips. I think the corrections take longer, but they probably should, since it's important for them to verify the information in the slip.

My pgn submission list and correction submission list was entirely frozen for ages. Not now though.

I think the new administration was clever in the way that they solved the challenges of keeping cg.com going. They seem to have prioritized tasks in proper order to attain that goal. I think that the challenges they faced were formidable, and they may well remain formidable as far as we know.

Just recently <Sargon> gave individual help to several members after a DDOS attack. This was so remarkable that a <"Sargon helped me to..."> meme spontaneously arose on the cg.com page.

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<MissScarlett> I was just thinking the same thing this morning.

<z's> contribution to the Bistro, especially his multilingual internet search skills, are already sorely missed.

On which players participated in Game Collection: Sverdlovsk 1942 National Tournament I think I have a solution with respect to which "Poliak" was present.

It was Evsey Poliak , not Abram Borisovich Poliak .

This is important to me, because I have all of the pgns from this tournament and in future I would like to submit it to the Tournament Index

<365Chess> lists Abram Borisovich Poliak as the participant, and that is the name on the pgns I downloaded from them.

But it is actually Evsey Poliak

Rolf Voland's "Strategem im Hinterland- Das UdSSR-Schach 1941-1945" published a crosstable for <Sverdlovsk 1942> based on an actual contemporaneous source- a tournament bulletin:

"Sverdlovskij sachmatnyj turnir s ucastiem masterov SSSR; Sverdlovsk 1942"

But the crosstable lists a "J. Poljak"

I just now realized why- Voland's volume is in German, and the "j" is meant to sound as a "y" in English.

So if you type "Evsey Poliak" into the google translator from English to Russian, you will see the Russian result to be "Yevsey Polyak". Now click on the "sound icon" and listen to the pronunciation in Russian- it clearly says "Yevsey Polyak". So in German, "Jevesy Poljak".

Here is a screenshot of the translation result: https://i.imgur.com/evX5op2.png

So the contemporaneous tournament bulletin cited by Voland does not conflict with the listing of Evsey Poliak as the correct participant.

Now the tournament bulletin matches the Rusbase information- which lists "E. Poliak" in the crosstable, and "Evsey Poliak" on the pgns if you download them.

http://al20102007.narod.ru/nat_tour...

"E. Poliak" on Rusbase becomes "J. Polyak" in the German language crosstable published by Voland.

<PMD> Yes I also tend to think Rusbase is generally most accurate on Russian chess dates, crosstables and pgns. He is specializing in Russian events.

I don't have a subscription to it (if such a thing exists), but TWIC 220 appears to have 91 games, and TWIC 221 has a further 1 game.

http://theweekinchess.com/chessnews...