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To make editing clearer and easier on our eyes, I have changed the typeface format for all of the Mirror intros.

<Original intro text> reproduced on the Mirror intros is now in smaller, italicized black text.

All <EDIT note> text on the Mirror intros is in larger font, not italicized, and in color.

Example: Game Collection: WCC: Lasker-Janowski 1910

Some of the <original text> in the mirror intros has already been edited, so if you want to see what has been changed already, you can compare the <mirror intro text> to the <original intro text>.

Non-contractual "rematches" should be labeled "return matches," as here:

Botvinnik-Smyslov World Championship Return Match (1957)

So the following should also be re-labeled as "return matches":

Steinitz-Chigorin World Championship Rematch (1892)

Lasker-Steinitz World Championship Rematch (1896)

Alekhine-Bogoljubov World Championship Rematch (1934)

Whereas this one should remain labeled as a "rematch" because the match was contractually obligated in the first match:

needs to be changed to <Smyslov-Botvinnik Rematch 1958>

1. Incumbent champion's name first

2. Return Matches distinguished from Rematches.

On Google Chrome, you just hit the control patch and you are given a 'zoom in -zoom out' menu.

Every browser has a page 'zoom in- zoom out' menu.

I dislike that sentence. I think "embodiment" and "notion" together are either too colloquial or trying too hard to sound high falutin'. At a bare minimum, "notion" should be changed to "idea".

<For many centuries, there was no formal world chess championship, but there were nonetheless a select few>

I think there's no need for the word "nonetheless".

<a select few who achieved fame for their ideas and successes over the chess board, and sometimes even for their writings.>

A footnote quoting someone, anyone, to that effect would be welcome.

<because it started a grand tradition. >

I'm not sure what that's supposed to mean.

<Starting with Steinitz, the title of World Chess Champion has been handed down through the generations from one player to another, like an Olympic torch. >

Meh. Olympic torches aren't handed through generations. At the moment, I can't think of an alternative. The sentence might well just end at "another."

<This system worked reasonably well, until 1993,>

I enacted all of your suggested edits in your first post.

In your second post, I agree a footnote is necessary and logged your edit.

I logged your "grand tradition" objection.

I logged your "Olympic torches" edit.

I simply enacted your "first comma" edit.

<OHIO> DO YOU THINK BOOMIE IS RIGHT. DO YOU THINK I SHOULD GET RID OF THE ITALICS ON THE ORIGINAL TEXT BECAUSE IT'S TOO SMALL TO READ.

I told him he can adjust his browser settings, but I have mine on "zoom in" and it's making it harder for me to do this logging because NOW THE WORDS ARE SO BIG THEY ARE FILLING UP THE WHOLE SCREEN, WHICH MAKES IT CONFUSING WHEN YOU HAVE TO DO A LOT OF MOUSE SCROLLING.

Please advise-- Isn't there some way to make the text <italics> without making it smaller?

Help <crawfb5> and <Phony Benoni>!

Bat Signal out on this, Bat signal.

Ooh maybe batgirl will show up eh?

User: sbc

I want to know now that you will be with me in common front, along with all the others who work on these edits, when it comes time to hand them in.

In particular, at the moment I'm thinking that I don't want a "third party" monkeying around with your style edits after they are done.

This is why I'm logging them all on the mirror collections. If necessary, we need to justify to Daniel why we changed what we changed.

We may need a mass combined email campaign to protect the integrity of our final edit.

Possibly. Worse case scenario.

Daniel's our friend, not our opponent. But it is his website and he has final cut on any edit.

It's just that it's going to take a great deal of meticulous work and a great deal of time to do this job properly.

Daniel's our friend, not our opponent. But it is his website and he has final cut on any edit. >

Dear Daniel,

Hello esteemed friend. I hope this brief email finds you and yours in good health and cheerful spirit.

After many hours of careful consideration, here is the final product of the WCCEP. Please review it carefully. While each of us has had some input into this important project, we understand it's your company that will present it to the world and you will have the final say what the final edit will be. We are gladly open to any rewritings/editing/factual corrections you may find. If you happen to do so, we would ask the courtesy of you first presenting any potential changes to our final product for review and consultation.

Right. I'll just wait and hope maybe one of the brainier colleagues does know a way to make the italics without shrinking the text.

If there is no way to do this, I will enact <BOOMIE'S> request.

Thanks so much for that draft! It's "letter" perfect.

I've just saved it on my hard drive, for the same reason I typically walk around with a grenade in my pocket.

I'm on the case and kicking bottom.

Oops wrong movie hang on...

Ah yes <The Good the Bad and the Ugly>:

The more people who help out on this the better our final edit will be.

It goes without saying, but I'll say it, the participation of you and <Ohio> is key to our ultimate triumph of the will.

Oops what a giveaway.

I meant "triumph of fact over fancy."

Playing chess is all about finding the truth of a position.

Chess history should be all about finding the truth of what actually happened, so far as that can be determined with proper sources.

Here is an audiovisual aid that I think sums up the credo of our edit:

"The edits might not even be in the car, Sonny!"

Dang. Wrong movie again.

Well I'll wait a day or so in case folks "in the know" such as <crawfb5> or <Phony Benoni> might know how to make italics without shrinking the size of the font to "ant level."

Ok I just kicked the question upstairs to the big boys.

"Let's meet at a second location where I'll feel safe."

I guess the fonts can't be changed as easily as any word processor.

I generally use tequilla, but the effect never seems to last. Probably my anti-virus software eliminating the worm.

Sounds like HTML amateurs to me. If you look at the source (Right Click/View Source), you'll see this line under the Style section:

.fixedText width:344px; padding:1px; border-style:solid; border-color:#996633; border-width:1px; background-color:#FFFFDD; font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9px

Adjusting the font-size should do the trick.