Nothing rude. The time you've invested, for free makes you a bit entitled. Don't feel bad about that.

As for raising the issue, I think it took some backbone. And......I think you've been proven right. It's early, but I am not confident at all about this. Maybe something is going on we don't know about, but even the day to day operation of the site doesn't appear to have had sufficient emergency procedures.

<I was indeed rude to him many, many times and I'm feeling guilty about that now.>

You can't change the past. My dad was a rather not nice person, but one of the few things he taught me of a moral nature was something like "Be careful what you say to people. It might be the last thing you ever say to them."

Let me give you a little Bible:
Philippians 3:13-14

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

That's Paul the apostle, I think the greatest man who ever lived. And what he was forgetting was his avid killing of believers in the name of God!

Good advice, <Ohio> and thanks also for the computer advice <Tim>!

I remember the <Piscopo> flap which became legend, though I missed it when it actually happened.

I think some years ago I asked you what it was about and you supplied me with a summary.

So what I actually "remember" is that you explained it to me.

Embarrassingly, I have forgotten the explanation.

I think you guys were saying it was ok to make fun of <Joe Piscopo> on a game page because it was relevant, or maybe just because it was funny.

I believe the <Piscopo Flap> was an early model of airplane?

Similar idiom to the infamous car model <The Stanley Steamer>.

<Ohio> A dark image! Although to be fair Willy Wonka was actually a child murderer.

This is down to the genius of Roald Dahl. Only he could make a movie about a child murderer into a children/family favorite.

His horror short stories are magnificent. I used to read all of them I could get my hands on. They were often anthologized in those old "Alfred Hitchock Presents" volumes they had in our middle school liberry.

Fellow writers in those volumes included Richard Matheson, Theodore Sturgeon, Ray Bradbury, H.P Sauce Lovecraft, and many other horror masters.

I wonder if the books are still there, or if my old middle school has gotten around to burning them yet. After all, such dark fare could "trigger" sissies, and we can't be having that, can we. Also, these volumes don't have any contributions from transgender women/men of color who have had limbs removed because they didn't feel comfortable in the body God gave them. We can't have that either. It's high time the government got involved in policing all the content in middle school liberry books.

"trigger" = not a real word, not a real event in reality

"mansplaining" = same

"manspreading" = same but at least that one is funny

"micro aggression" = same

<OCF: Is the IMDB issue prodding you to have some thoughts about the long term viability of this site?>

<jessicafischerqueen: <Daniel> I hope you heed <Ohio's> query.

As I've asked before, what provisions are you going to make for the long term viability of this website?

That means when you die (God forbid, and as we all must), what happens to this website and all of the work you and so many others have put into it?

Everybody dies, <Roger Paige> RIP, as you may have heard. And so did his website.

Sadly, for solo entrepreneur webpages, they all die eventually. Books in libraries don't die until someone sets fire to them. Please give your website the longevity of a book?

I think you have created the best chess website in the history of the internet- it would be a shame if you didn't make provisions for the posterity of this- the very best- chess website. I can't even imagine a better idea than the one you have made a reality here.

Sadly, the "Wayback machine" is't sufficient as a back up plan. As <Tabanus> and I have found after numerous experiments, it's impossible to surf cg.com via the <Wayback Machine>.

Please preserve what you have created? I know it's up to you, and really none of my business to begin with.

All that said, I'm still enjoying cg.com on a daily basis, so thank you for creating and running it- you've given me the best 11 chess years I have ever had in my life.

<Cg.com> really is unique- kibbutzing, historical work, great database with many pages full of informed and humorous comment, fake gambling (not to be underestimated!), contests, head to head matches with grandmasters (time for another I hope, soon?), opening explorer... the list goes on.

I recently took up correspondence chess again and your Opening Explorer is a Godsend to me.

What is curious is there are two different birthdates.

Here at Daniel Freeman's page it says:

<born Feb-13-1967, died Jul-24-2018, 51 years old>

At the Baldwin Funeral and Cremation Society it has:

<Demetrius Cross, Sept-30-1967 - July-24-2018>

If the month was September he would still not be 51.

<Feb-15-17 chessgames.com: Thanks everybody!>

Think it will be a great idea to start a brand new Contest here in Memory of Daniel ? Know there is already 3 but realy think you going to like it. Winking, will you be able to run it for us ? A awesome concept and very easy but something else.