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Oct-18-22
 | | An Englishman: Good Evening: Tried editing an earlier suggestion which contained a typo, but failed. |
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Oct-18-22
 | | MissScarlett: Can’t be edited, your end or mine. Deletion and resubmission is the only avenue. When you’ve done that, I’ll probably start preferring the original. |
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Oct-20-22
| | An Englishman: Good Evening: Orrrrrrrrr--(he subtly suggested with a sinister sly smile)--you can submit the pun with your spelling, and whichever one gets uses, we'll split the credit. |
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Oct-20-22
| | MissScarlett: Hush - <OCF> will be furious if he discovers these conspiratorial manoeuvrings. |
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Oct-31-22
 | | LIFE Master AJ: Can you email me at nospam_lifemasteraj@yahoo.com?
(Remove the first seven characters of that email, I did that to fool the bots that hunt for emails to spam.) I wanted to relate something and also tell you that you were right about something. |
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Oct-31-22
| | MissScarlett: I never need a second invitation to be told that I'm right. Look out for an email headed 'It is she!' |
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Nov-10-22
 | | Fusilli: Cool list (yes, mortality statistics are cool). Over a decade ago, I gathered all dates of birth and death (when applicable) of all grandmasters and calculated the grandmaster life expectancy. Because of the small dataset, especially for the early years, when there weren't that many grandmasters, I could only produce overall average estimates for the period 1950-2009, and another one for the 2000-2009 decade. (These are not single numbers. It is not life expectancy at birth because no one is a GM at birth. Each is a series of estimates of life expectancy at various adult ages.) I wanted to test whether GMs fit the "starving artist" stereotype of talented people (at something very specific but not particularly rewarded by the market or society) and maybe that was reflected in their life expectancy. After the number crunching, this is what I wrote back then in a summary report: "their life expectancies in 1950-2009 are consistently higher than for U.S. white males in 1979-1981, and their life expectancies in 2000-2009 also exceed those of U.S. white males in 2006." It seems that, collectively, GMs actually did better than average U.S. white males. And U.S. white men are, globally speaking, a privileged bunch in terms of life expectancy. So, no starving artist narrative there. I thought of developing it into an article for Chess Life, but I got busy with my actual research and dropped it. Now that I can have 13 more years of data, I may give it another try. |
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Nov-11-22
| | MissScarlett: < It seems that, collectively, GMs actually did better than average U.S. white males. > Appreciate that average life expectancies for entire populations include infant/child mortality. This will skew the figures lower than for select groups which, by definition, require a certain maturity. Given the rapid decline in child mortality over the last century, this effect will have increasingly diminished. <And U.S. white men are, globally speaking, a privileged bunch in terms of life expectancy.> One might contend that white males have been the group most responsible for the rapid increase in global life expectancy in the last couple of centuries. |
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Nov-11-22
| | Fusilli: <Appreciate that average life expectancies for entire populations include infant/child mortality.> That would be life expectancy at birth, but I estimated life expectancy at a range of adult ages, and compared with same. For example, when I did this, US male life expectancy at age 50 was 29.0 (data from 2006 death rates by age). For GMs, I estimated 30.5 in the 2000-2009 period, and 28.31 for the whole period I considered (1950-2009). Talking about it makes me want to go back to it, update it, and try to get it published. |
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| Dec-02-22 | | Helios727: Are you able to add Caleb Denby to the database? He is a U.S. master who has at least 195 Youtube videos about chess. |
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Dec-03-22
| | MissScarlett: Do you have any notable games of his? What recent events has he played in? Individual games can be submitted via PGN Upload Utility for inspection. |
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| Dec-05-22 | | Helios727: Okay, I will try adding a game of his. |
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| Dec-06-22 | | stone free or die: If <CG> can provide a player page for such an esteemed player as: Eric then it can surely add a page to <Caleb Denby>. . |
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Dec-17-22
 | | FSR: For your consideration as Yuletide puns:
C van den Berg vs J H Donner, 1965 ("Blitzin' Donner"; this would be good on December 24, when Santa and the reindeer make their annual flight); Torre vs R Smirka, 1924 ("Run Run Rudolph"); E Nakar vs A Merry, 2014 ("Merry Christmas"). |
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Dec-17-22
| | MissScarlett: See F Kuijpers vs J H Donner, 1977 |
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Dec-24-22
| | FSR: <All I Want for Christmas is Euwe> would be a good pun for January 2, the Ninth Day of Christmas. That will be the 91st anniversary of when Santa delivered Kashdan vs Euwe, 1932 to Isaac Kashdan. |
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Dec-24-22
| | MissScarlett: That’s strained to the point of torture. |
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Dec-24-22
| | FSR: <stone free or die> I have added a bio for Caleb Denby. |
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| Jan-01-23 | | LoveThatJoker: Hi! I have sent an email to chess@chessgames.com so as to submit a game for inclusion in the database. Unfortunately, the cut and paste feature is not available on my tablet at this time (due to the touch screen being damaged). The game is this one: https://old.chesstempo.com/gamedb/g... You can either upload the game via the attachment I sent you or simply download the PGN from the ChessTempo link here. Please read my post on Valery Mamoshin as to why this game is of importance. LTJ |
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Jan-04-23
| | MissScarlett: Cut and pasting the score from <chesstempo> to my PGN viewer - a prepatory step for transfer to <cg> - doesnt work. For whatever reason, it doesn't recognise the format used by chesstempo. Could you copy the score here? |
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| Jan-04-23 | | Messiah: <MissScarlett: Cut and pasting the score from <chesstempo> to my PGN viewer - a prepatory step for transfer to <cg> - doesnt work. For whatever reason, it doesn't recognise the format used by chesstempo. Could you copy the score here?>
It is full of control characters. I cleaned it up: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bd3 dxe4 5. Bxe4 Nf6 6. Bf3 Nc6 7. Ne2 e5 8. Bg5 Nxd4 9. Nxd4 exd4 10. Qe2+ Qe7 11. Qxe7+ Kxe7 12. a3 dxc3 13. axb4 cxb2 14. Rb1 a5 15. b5 a4 16. Rxb2 a3 17. Rb1 a2 18. Ra1 Ra5 19. c4 Be6 20. O-O Bxc4 21. Rfc1 Ra4 22. h3 Rd8 23. Bxb7 Bxb5 24. Rxc7+ Rd7 25. Rxd7+ Bxd7 26. Bd2 Ra7 27. Bf3 Be6 28. g4 Bd5 29. Kg2 Bxf3+ 30. Kxf3 Nd5 31. Ke4 Kd6 32. h4 Ra4+ 33. Kf3 Kc5 34. Bc1 Kc4 35. Bb2 Kb3 36. Bxg7 Nc3 37. Ke3 Kb2 38. Kd2 Kxa1 39. Kc2 Rc4 40. g5 Rc7 41. h5 Rc8 42. h6 Rc6 43. f4 Rf6 |
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Jan-04-23
| | MissScarlett: Here goes: V Mamoshin vs V Kolker, 1972 |
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| Jan-05-23 | | LoveThatJoker: <MissScarlett> The game is uploaded erroneously right now. The last move of the game is 43...f6! with a draw - and not 43...Rf6? which is simply incorrect. Please make this vital correction to the PGN.
Thanks for your efforts <MissScarlett> and <Messiah>! LTJ |
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Jan-05-23
| | MissScarlett: ChessTempo has 43…Rf6; why didn’t you notice that before? |
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| Jan-05-23 | | LoveThatJoker: <MissScarlett> I had not gone through the entirety of the moves: I was just looking for the game online, as I am reading a book right now on all kinds of drawing resources. I can assure you that the final move of the game is ...f6. ...Rf6 is losing, and no draw is available to Black in that case. If ...Rf6 had been the actual final move of the game, then I can assure you that this would have long-since been considered an immortal win (much like the doubled pawns winning versus the R and N)! LTJ |
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