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May-14-19
 | | MissScarlett: I know about Bright's disease; it's what the legendary <Victor Trumper> died from. In cricketing terms, he was sort of a cross between Paul Morphy and Harry Pillsbury. |
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May-16-19
 | | Stonehenge: Here it says Sofia (Bulgaria) in the game header but the administrative game editor has just Sofia. Strange. G Minchev vs B Ganchev, 1986 |
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May-16-19
 | | Chessical: I would like to thank all the Biographers who have contributed to the Stockfish analysis of the World Championships. All the championships up to and including Kasparov vs Kramnik, 2000 are now complete. |
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May-17-19
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Stoned Hedge> G Minchev vs B Ganchev, 1986 I just "fixed it," but via a workaround. I think there is a bug at play. I noticed this phenomenon a few months ago, whilst editing a bunch of event fields on the Vladimir Petrov page. Some of the event fields can be edited "normally" but some of them have a kind of bug. A "persistency bug" which sometimes can be overcome, but other times not. If you look at the game page again you can see that I fixed it now. It didn't want me to change it at first, but there is a "method" if you really wanted to alter it. You need to delete the entry you want to change and then enter the new one, but one letter at a time. It works around 90% of the time, at least it did on the <Petrov> page. A few games are resistant to this or any other strategy I have found. I recognized the anomaly on your game page though, where there is different information in the admin event field and the game page event field. Someone probably tried to get rid of the (Bulgaria) on the game header, but on some of these games you can't just delete a whole word. It won't "let you." You need to do what I just did- delete the whole entry in the admin Event field and then re-enter what you want, one letter at a time. Sometimes that didn't work (for me), but most of the time it did. |
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May-17-19
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Henge> This might help explain better than I did with "words." It's a video screen shot of me getting rid of the <bug at play>:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw9... |
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May-17-19
| | Stonehenge: Mmm, that video really bugged me, animal abuse bah :) <one letter at a time> Lucky sod, they played in Sofia not in <Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerywyrndrobwllllanty-
siliogogogoch>.
(and CG won't let me post that without hyphens) |
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May-17-19
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Shirley, this is unfair to the Welsh people, especially <Christian and Gareth Bale>. It is an affront to great acting and footy. |
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May-17-19
| | Stonehenge: http://www.montypython.net/scripts/... |
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May-19-19
| | MissScarlett: How large is the backlog in correction slips? |
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May-19-19
 | | Tabanus: I have five pending, the worst (for me) being J Horvath in the Szirak (1985) standings. |
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May-20-19
| | Tabanus: Perhaps Game Collection: Jurmala 1985 can pass also. Not sure how to spell the magazine Шахматы in English. |
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| May-21-19 | | Paint My Dragon: <Tab>Shakhmaty in English |
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May-22-19
| | Tabanus: <PMD> Changed to that, thanks. GLC Chess Challenge 1986, how to find the round dates? The Times is online till 1985, and https://www.britishnewspaperarchive... only has Nunn's short mention in Ill. London News. |
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May-22-19
 | | Retireborn: <Tab> If GLC Chess Challenge 1986 is the tournament won by Flear, I can give round numbers from Chessbase. |
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May-22-19
| | Tabanus: <Retireborn> Yes the Flear upset. I have the games and round numbers but not the dates. And not much else either. There was a bulletin, I think it's rare. Game Collection: GLC Chess Challenge 1986 |
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May-22-19
| | Retireborn: <Tab> Sorry, didn't read your question properly. Round dates, don't have em, but the bracket dates were 11-27 March, and I also read that the 9th round was played early to allow Flear to get married. Someone with BCM could help more. |
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May-23-19
| | Stonehenge: <Annie>
Can you please merge the duplicate player files? |
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| May-23-19 | | Paint My Dragon: <Tab/Retireborn> I couldn’t find any round dates in BCM, but the Roger Coathup blog entry link gives correct details of the Flear surprise win and his marriage to Christine Leroy. Well almost … it should have said biggest tournament upset since Pillsbury at Hastings 1895 … I think Roger mistakenly wrote London 1895. I actually know Roger – he lives just about a mile from me. “Small world, but I wouldn’t like to paint it” – as the saying goes. So, you already have pages 178-179 of the April 1986 BCM magazine. This gives most of the background story. The full report runs from pp. 178-187, but is mostly concerned with analysis. Other information is scant, but there are a couple of clues towards dates ... <Chief Arbiter – Bob Wade, assisted by Les BlackstockTournament Directors - Ray Keene, Stewart Reuben There was no play during the first weekend (15th/16th) as many of the contestants had to fly to Germany for the Bundesliga penultimate round. Another distraction was that Short had a TV appearance planned for 19th March – if his game ran on late, then he would miss meeting fellow guest (glamour model) Samantha Fox. Not surprisingly, his game with Portisch reached a rapid liquidation, and this was apparently joked about in the bulletin (edited by William Watson and Richard O’Brien). Flear reached his GM norm with 2 rounds to spare.> |
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May-23-19
| | Tabanus: <PMD> Thanks. I pasted that into the intro. Perhaps I'll wait with this until the British online newspapers are updated till 1986. They're adding stuff all the time. CG's "Notable tournaments" feature is not working either. If it ever was, it's possible that Daniel added them manually the later years. |
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May-24-19
| | Stonehenge: I don't know who uploaded all those correspondence games, but they should get shot. Dozens of extra duplicate player files and nobody gives a @#$% :( |
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May-24-19
 | | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi P.M.D. and Tabenus.
Some details regarding Glenn Flear and his historic win with BCM dates here. Speelman vs Flear, 1986 (kibitz #1) *** |
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May-24-19
 | | perfidious: 'Rapid liquidation', indeed. |
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May-24-19
| | Tabanus: <Sally Simpson> Many thanks. So we have round 8 20/3 and rd. 9 22/3, no play on 15/3 and 16/3, and bracket dates 11-27/3. This gives: Round 1 Tuesday March 11
Round 2 Wednesday March 12
Round 3 Thursday March 13
Round 4 Friday March 14
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Round 5 Monday March 17
Round 6 Tuesday March 18
Round 7 Wednesday March 19
Round 8 Thursday March 20
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Round 9 Saturday March 22 (Flear married)
Round 10 Sunday March 23
Round 11 Monday March 24
Round 12 Tuesday March 25
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Round 13 Thursday March 27
Too risky to use these dates? It gives Flear a free day also the day before the big day :) More date clues are welcome. |
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May-24-19
| | Sally Simpson: ***
Hi Tabanus:
Because he was getting married the organisers allowed Flear to play his round 9 game v Plaskett on Saturday 15th March (see my link above.) *** |
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May-24-19
 | | Annie K.: <Stonehenge: <<Annie>
Can you please merge the duplicate player files?>> Working on them. :) |
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