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| Jan-09-11 | | crawfb5: Thanks for the alert, but it looks like my 100+ games are still in the pipeline. |
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| Jan-09-11 | | crawfb5: Maybe they have such a big backlog they're catching up in batches. |
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| Jan-09-11 | | Benzol: I think that for a large number of submissions from frequent uploaders like us the files are stored separately from the others. I haven't checked all the Boleslavsky submissions yet but all of the Simagin games I submitted are there. However, in the past I know some games that were uploaded haven't appeared and I've had to resubmit them. |
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Jan-09-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> <Benzol> Out of curiosity, do you use the "Submit" page (going one-at-a-time), or e-mail an entire file? I use the "Submit" page myself, simply because I don't trust my computer skills enough to produce a correctly formatted file. |
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| Jan-09-11 | | crawfb5: I only tried the file of multiple games method once and something happened to it and I had to resubmit. My current method is to enter games into my database program to avoid typos in the game score and to enter the header information properly. I then dump them out to a PGN file. I open up the PGN file with Notepad and cut a game out and paste it into the "Submit" window. This way I don't miss any games. It's a system that works for me. A key is to make sure you're using some sort of plain-vanilla text editor like Notepad. More powerful programs like Word can stuff in extra characters that confuse CG's PGN parser. |
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Jan-09-11
| | Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> That's exactly what I do. |
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| Jan-09-11 | | crawfb5: BTW, if you find yourself looking through the <NY Sun> and know the approximate dates, the Library of Congress loads pages much faster than Fulton and you can zero in on specific dates. The down side is the OCR search doesn't seem to work nearly as well, and I know the Fulton search misses things. I think the LoC scans are cleaner as well. The Sun is a reasonable source, especially in the years before Helms started at the <Eagle>. |
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Jan-09-11
| | Phony Benoni: Thanks for the LoC link. Looks like there may be some excellent information for early Western Championships from the Minnesote newspapers. I had sort of let that project go, waiting for submitted games to come in. No more excuses! |
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| Jan-10-11 | | Benzol: <Phony Benoni> <<crawfb5> <Benzol> Out of curiosity, do you use the "Submit" page (going one-at-a-time), or e-mail an entire file? I use the "Submit" page myself, simply because I don't trust my computer skills enough to produce a correctly formatted file.> I use to copy the games out by hand and play over them with a small set and then use to submit the games one at a time by hand using using the submit button. Sometimes typos use to creep in which required corrections by the <CG> staff to be made. I've never submitted a PGN file en masse. However, once I acquired Fritz 8 I could use it to play and enter the moves which helped to eliminate the typos and then pasted them to the submission template from that. It's a lot quicker now than it use to be but I still submit them one by one. I think <Honza> might submit games en masse but I'm not sure which is the preferred method by most others. Perhaps <CG> could answer that one. Incidentally the first two Boleslavsky games I looked for didn't apparently load so I'll have to ask <CG> about that too. |
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Jan-10-11
 | | WannaBe: I think, there was a post made by CG.com, and I can't remember where/forum/when it was, that for indiv. game, the submission page was the preferred method. But for en masse, e-mail was the preferred method. I don't know if the submission page is capable/able to handle and parse the moves (for illegals) en masse... I remember reading, that game that was entered, via submission page, error checking is performed by the computer. |
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| Jan-10-11 | | crawfb5: I asked about single vs batch submission at the CG forum back in October: chessgames.com chessforum When they replied, they said large submissions didn't really matter at their end: chessgames.com chessforum I then asked about the status:
chessgames.com chessforum The file disappeared somehow, so I when I resubmitted, I went back to single-game submission: chessgames.com chessforum |
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| Jan-10-11 | | A.G. Argent: Well, Ok, if no one else will, I offer a little Duck smack; Cam Newton, Cam Newton, Cam Newton, every guy and his dog is talking about Cam Newton. Ad nauseum. Yeah well, look out for his counterpart, Darron Thomas. Pretty dynamic QB his own self and he's tucked very nicely under the media radar. UO losing Masoli was the best thing that could have happened. And Thomas is only a sophomore. Oregon also has the blur LaMichael James and their secret weapon, Kenjon Barner. Barn Burner, I call him. 90 minutes till kick-off. Let's do it. |
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| Jan-10-11 | | hms123: <A.G.> The problem is that Thomas is an amateur and Newton is a pro (i.e., one whose father takes lots of money and "forgets" to tell his son about it). The NCAA "investigation" was a joke. I will be rooting for Oregon. |
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| Jan-10-11 | | crawfb5: Don't forget as you move forward that I have the early <Chess Life>, <Chess Review>, and <Chess Life & Review> issues on disc from start (1930s) to about the mid 1970s. I can look for games and event reports if you like. |
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| Jan-10-11 | | crawfb5: I have a question for the baseball historians, although I think I already know the answer. I have been digging up a lot of old Jackson Whipps Showalter match games. In the process, I have been running across biographical information. A number of chess sources allege that Showalter was an "inventor" or at least early proponent of the curveball. I have not looked at many baseball sources, but the few I have consulted do not mention Showalter. Is this claim something taken seriously only in chess circles and not baseball circles (which is what I suspect)? |
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Jan-10-11
| | Phony Benoni: <et al.> Thanks for the reports on submitting games. Looks like experience shows the Submit Page is the way to go. <crawfb5> I'll keep that in mind, but once my income tax refund comes in that disc is at the top of my wish list. It sounds like something even a semi-serious researcher should not do without. |
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| Jan-10-11 | | crawfb5: <PB> It's reasonably priced, under $40 at ChessCafe (you might be able to find it elsewhere): http://shop.chesscafe.com/Chess_Rev... |
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Jan-10-11
| | Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> Oh, rats; it's on DVD. My computer doesn't play DVDs. |
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| Jan-10-11 | | crawfb5: <My computer doesn't play DVDs.> An old machine, eh? Actually, external drives are not <that> expensive either, but this may be getting more involved than you anticipated...the DVD format holds more info than the CD format, so with PDFs of so many magazine issues those 4 DVDs would have to be, well, I'm not exactly sure how many CDs. Somebody else can do the math. I'm tired. |
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Jan-10-11
| | Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> Actually it's a new machine (well, maybe 18 months old), but it's not really mine. There was a stretch of time when I had to work at home due to construction at the office, and my old computer wasn't up to the workload. So they actually gave me a new one, but the catch is that any upgrades have to be installed by the IT guy from the library. And since this isn't a work-related upgrade, he probably won't be allowed to do it. Sounds like a bummer--but it was a free computer! |
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| Jan-10-11 | | crawfb5: I'm surprised something that new isn't already DVD capable. You could get an external DVD drive that would hook up via a USB port from Amazon or Best Buy or somesuch for probably $50 ballpark. Depends on how much you might use it as to whether that would be a worthwhile investment. |
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| Jan-11-11 | | Jim Bartle: In the college championship game, the announcers had lots of praise for Cam Newton's play despite "all the adversity he's been through." Some adversity. His father sold his football playing to the highest bidder, and there was an investigation where he wasn't punished at all. (Not mentioned by the announcers.) |
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| Jan-11-11 | | crawfb5: Wow! I think those are the ones. I'd picked up somewhere that the <Times Democrat> had published games, but I couldn't find an online source for the paper. I'm not sure why my Google Books search failed to turn up this volume of <The Chess Player's Chronicle>, but I'll not complain. Now that I know it's there, I may experiment around with search terms to improve my hit rate in the future, but I'll not complain. Thanks again. Games 6 and 9 were truly considered MIA, and not just by me. I'd hoped that more online material might turn up something, and it did! |
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| Jan-11-11 | | andrewjsacks: Travis, another interesting point is that Williams had more nicknames than any other player, even Ruth (The Babe, The Bambino, The Sultan of Swat). Baseball nicknames is a fascinating topic, with much to be said... |
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Jan-11-11
| | Phony Benoni: <crawfb5> I've posted before regarding Showalter and the curve ball: Jackson Whipps Showalter I do remember either the Eagle or Clipper mentioning he was still a local pitcher around the turn of the century, but the curve ball story seems to be a myth. |
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