<ArturoRivera> Since I never mentioned anything about Nimzo playing Capa, Nimzo not beating good people, Nimzo being not good, and (presumably) Dr. Vajda being "not good at all", I'd say your logic is WORSE than mine, you quote out of context, even if you are attempting to quoting anything at all. I never mentioned half the things you quoted me on, so that was likely the most illogical and ironic ad hominem to ever gleam off my flatscreen monitor, into my lenses, projected on my corneas, and processed by my brain to ever follow that same path. (You must be one of the liberals reporting on the war...) Maybe if you quoted me next time, rather than imagining things, or possibly even READ my post, and actually spell my name RIGHT, then you can insult me.

<sciacca khan> I quote from the bottom of my post: "Then again, if the choice was based on skill, the same 10 people would be picked again and again." I agree with you on some level.

<McCool> Good observation.

<iamverywellatchess> The 24th time you've ever posted on this site was quite a hilarious one... I don't even know what your post means. Please speak proper English if you are going to dis me, or speak in Spanish, or SOME language where there aren't so many grammatical errors. I'll translate it. Also, please spell my name right. It's a "g", not a "k".

<THE pawn> I again quote from the bottom of my post: "Then again, if the choice was based on skill, the same 10 people would be picked again and again." I'm really not defending anything. I'm saying that yes indeed, he is definetely better than me, but a person who finds <CG.com> on a search engine and visits here w/o a subscription won't know what to make of the POTD.

<Castle In The Sky> But the only ones we really CARE about are in the database, because anything we aren't seeing (according to quantum mechanics) isn't in the realm of "being". We can't accept a player because he beat a fantastic player once, and I'm certainly not detracting from him because he has a low winning percentage. (I'd caps this but it shrinks it to prevent flaming): *Dr. Arpad Vajda is a good player. Compared to the other players on the site who have 111 games or more, he is mediocre*

QED

The main question is whether <chessgames.com> should follow your suggestion of having the POTD be the very best players only, "Capablanca for a week, Kasparov for a week, Morphy for a week, etc." On this I strongly support their decision of sometimes choosing more obscure players. I think that the people who frequent this site are likely to be familiar with names like Morphy, Kasparov, and Capablanca, and many will already know a thing or two about them. If they are interested in these players or their games it won't be hard for them to pull up their pages. However, there are lesser known players in chess history who might be interesting to learn more about -- perhaps they were strong but forgotten players, maybe they led interesting lives, played one or two gems, invented new opening variations, etc. That's why it's nice for POTD to pick randomly (if that's how it works) and help the visitors to this site learn about some new players.

http://www.shropshirechess.org/Hist...