British Telecom, like British Petroleum, is anachronistic.

From the BT forum: <We have engaged with the websitewww.chessgames.com and we are still looking into this issue. We are still waiting for some extra information fromwww.chessgames.com to help us with our investigation. >

<MissScarlett> You deserve credit for stumping about this issue. You were the first and the last.

You only missed one point, possibly the most important point: <BT> footy coverage is abysmal and should voluntarily, and quietly, disband.

On the other hand <Sky> footy coverage, with flagship star <Gary Neville> is the best in footy history.

Hello,

I'm back without a proxy or VPN. (what ever they are.) The lock out glitch appears to have gone.

(I may have been able to get back days ago, this is the first time I've tried in a week.)

I see the G.C. DataBase has been flooded with these Internet Rapid/Blitz Games and yet the only one worth showing was Luis Paulo Supi - M.Carlsen game which has appeared in dozens of newspaper columns all over the planet, spawned 100's of typically naff YouTube vids and is on every other site on the net except the one that matters...here! (I submitted it.)

Even I blogged it.

https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl...

Usually I would never subject my readers to net blitz/rapid chess tripe but this was good and I found an under 1800 player making the same sac in a slightly similar position. (also ran my own lockdown chess tournament. See link.)

Luis Paulo Supi - Carlsen

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White played 18.Qc6!

spartak78 - pronte RHP.2007

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White played 28.Qc6!

(what is a VPN - a virtual pin number? Or does it have something to do with PGN.)

You go online, sign into your VPN, and voila, you are cured. Now send me $20 for this (in)valuable advice.

Thanks Lads,

My virtual nurse instructed me to stick a USB stick in my mouth for a minute then put into a side port on my computer to take my temperature.

(I'm thinking for flammable to burn I need to set fire to it, inflammable means it can under certain conditions burst into flames without putting a match to it.)

Hi Jith,

This is the trouble with adding all these rapd/blitz games to the main D.B. what Kramnik-Anand Nf3 game. They have played 93 classical games but add in the R/B games and it's 199 and they are all jumbled up together.

Of course if this site had this famous game we could link it to similar games, but it does not.

It's glaring absence is akin to going to the Louvre and finding out they have taken down the Mona Lisa or buying the Sgt Pepper C.D. with one of the tracks missing.

Kramnik vs Anand, 2008

I rather misremembered this as a knight sac but it was the same queen sac in eerily similar position :

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Check out <JimfromProvidence> post as well on avoiding mate in this position with certain prior moves, if Kramnik had noticed the idea.

*****

VPN also stands for virtual pin number, you're correct, that's how <WannaBe> collects $100 everyday in <CG>.

You're doing the USB stick thingy the right way as doing the other way around - first inserting the stick in computer and then in mouth - will be suicidal in injecting all the viruses onto oneself, especially in the plague era, though some of the virus accounts in this website are advertised to be particularly good for men, I hear.

I am finally allowed back. I think it was about 2 weeks, possibly 3.

I have no idea why people from ecf forum tried to message in Kibitzers Cafe and then discussed there that no one is responding to that message when the support forum right here was having relevant information on BT issue, and no one there got a thought top check out this forum.

Hi Jith,

I tried to email here but no answer. I saw someone had opened a thread on the ECF site saying they could not get on here, others saying they still could. Io I asked someone there who could get on here to advise here.

I had all but given up ever coming back when by chance looking for a 1983 Kasparov game I accidentally followed a link here and it opened up!

Whilst off air I went fishing about for other places to join - Red Hot Pawn for playing and here for game info etc etc and etc are still by far the best. (except of course if you want the Luis Paulo Supi - Carlsen game :) )

Just a good thing to remember that Kibitzers Cafe is for music therapy and any other message gets buried there in a flood of 'anorthography', the term someone in ecf forum aptly mentioned.

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I see a LendingTree ad.>

Because I saw an ad suddenly in a game page once, but not all the time.

<WannaBe: Looks like the issue is not quite all gone, you don't see it on the main, but if I go here, I see a...... . . >

NN vs Paulsen, 1858

The Event tag reads 'blindfold simul' not 'Blindfold simul'. If I correct it using my admin powers, it still reads 'blindfold simul'. But correct it just to 'Simul' and that stays capitalised.

<MissS> yeah, I've noticed that too. I believe capitalization is a "change too small to notice" to the editing script. I forced it via updating the tid page title just now.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/nph...

In the pgn where I've seen its not given so, as in "white blindfolded" or "blindfolded" in some other games in the database, it retorts to all small letters.

<Miss Scarlett, jith1207>

This is a persistent glitch I have reported on numerous occasions. It was driving <Stonehenge> nuts as well.

There is a workaround that works sometimes. For me it works over half the time.

Add the new tag you want, but one letter at a time.

[Event: blindfold simul]

Add your new tag, but like this:

[Event: B]

Now "add".

This edit will work.

Now add the next letter:

[Event: Bl]

Now "add" again.

Repeat this process until you have spelled out the entire site tag.

Just when you thought it was OK to visit that dark, run-down, wooden house in the forest, miles away from nowhere, and you got 1/10 litre of petro left in your horseless carriage.