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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1005 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-11-17    WinKing: Yeah the list seems ok now. They were listed twice though. Maybe the software caught the error & cleaned it up. A lot of mysterious things going on lately. Jun-12-17    offramp: The Nakamura-Karjakin borefest has been boredrawn for 7 hours; but it is still flashing in full yellow and green neon on your home page as LIVE CHESS!!! Click here!!! Is anyone there? Does anyone in charge ever look at this site? Jun-12-17    WinKing: lol...I feel your pain <offramp>. ;) Jun-13-17    chessgames.com: Sometimes we forget to disable the live-broadcast software the night before. That always causes a little havoc, but not as bad of a mistake as forgetting to turn it back on. Jun-14-17    truefriends: Will there be any more TEAM events in the near future?! Jun-14-17    offramp: I like Aronian and I am glad you left his dancing rook there for 5 hours. The trouble is, that left no time to see any other games. That's a bit of a shame. Jun-14-17    offramp: <truefriends: Will there be any more TEAM events in the near future?!> Hopefully not. What is the point? Jun-14-17    Nina Myers: <ufframp> YRU such a buzzkill?? Jun-16-17    chessgames.com: We want to do a different kind of Team-vs-Team, perhaps a Chess960 or even that Lasker Chess that Arno advocates. Jun-16-17    chessgames.com: Here's a little chess composition task that perhaps somebody would like to help us with. You see, we're working on a new chess viewer to replace pgn4web. It will resemble pgn4web superficially, but contain some of the features that make Chess Viewer Deluxe so much more desirable, like the ability to manipulate pieces. So to test this software, I am trying to come up with a short game that contains all of these characteristics: (1) a capture (2) a short castling (3) a long castling (4) en passant (5) an underpromotion (6) a check (7) a checkmate The game doesn't have to make any sense whatsoever as long as it is legal moves. It's not critical that it's super-short, but it's fun to try to make it as short as possible. So who's up for the challenge? Jun-16-17    WannaBe: [Event "Test"] [Site "CG"] [Date "2017.06.16"] [Round "1"] [White "WannaBe"] [Black "StockFish"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [ECO "B90"] [EventDate "?"] [PlyCount "37"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Bc4 d5 5.exd5 Qxd5 6.0-0 Be6 7.b4 Nc6 8.b5 0-0-0 9.Nc3 a5 10.bxa6 Nf6 11.a7 d3 12.Ne5 dxc2 13.Rb1 cxd1=R 14.a8=Q+ Kc7 15.Qxb7+ Kd6 16.f4 Rxc1 17.Rb6 g6 18.Bxd5 g5 19.Qxc6# Wonder if this will work, CVD chocked on it, (under promo on move 13... ??) Jun-16-17    Penguincw: I have nothing better to do, so: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Be2 d5 4. d4 Bg4 5. Bf4 Nbd7 6. dxe5 c5 7. exf6 Qa5+ 8. Qd2 c4 9. b4 cxb3 10. O-O O-O-O 11. fxg7 Qxd2 12. gxh8=B b6 13. Ba6# 1-0. I used Boden's mate as my inspiration. I think I got everything. Hopefully it's in a good enough format. Jun-16-17    SwitchingQuylthulg: <WannaBe> Valid PGN ends with a result (19.Qxc6# 1-0 instead of 19.Qxc6#) and uses O-O/O-O-O instead of 0-0/0-0-0. Jun-16-17    WannaBe: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Ah, yes... Thanks. It was the missing 1-0, not the 0-0. =) Jun-16-17    SwitchingQuylthulg: [Event "3rd CG.com Masters - Machines Invitational"] [Site "Chessgames.com"] [Date "2017.06.16"] [Round "1"] [White "WannaBe"] [Black "Stockfish"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] 1. e4 Na6 2. e5 d5 3. exd6 Bh3 4. Bb5+ Qd7 5. Nxh3 O-O-O 6. O-O Qxb5 7. dxe7 Kb8 8. exd8=R# 1-0 Jun-16-17    tpstar: <Chess Composition Challenge> 1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. g4 fxg3 4. d4 Nh6 5. Bxh6 Bb4+ 6. Nc3 g2 7. Qg4 gxh1=N 8. O-O-O O-O 9. Qxg7# 1-0 click for larger view What are the prizes? Jun-16-17    WannaBe: <tpstar> A year supply of Rice-O-Roni from CG.com =))) Jun-16-17    FairyPromotion: <CG> Jun-18 is the birthday of GM Andrei Volokitin. I would like to suggest <21. ?> in A Volokitin vs Mamedyarov, 2012 for PotD on that day. I think this is one of the greatest moves in chess history, and I'm actually surprised it wasn't used as a Sunday puzzle previously. Jun-16-17    chessgames.com: Our programmer Christopher thanks you all saying <haha awesome. Im nearing the ability to test it. Perfect timing ☺> Jun-17-17    Tabanus: <CG> How to "deal" with R Cremorne? His real name was Richard Dawson, but the chess reports have no games with that name - they use (and have games of) both "Lord Cremorne" and (later) "Earl of Dartrey". There are probably also other such cases. Jun-17-17    chessgames.com: Just my opinion (to be taken with the same weight as any biographer) is that we use whatever name is commonly used in chess literature, and talk of other monickers in the biography section. By way of example -- Expanding a well known name is fine--e.g. Duke Karl becomes Duke Karl von Braunschweig. But even if we located a first, middle, and last name for the Duke we shouldn't change his name. His short-name should forever be "Duke Karl." His long name should be whatever we deem appropriate. Jun-17-17    Tabanus: But Richard Dawson has two common names in chess literature: Lord Cremorne and Earl of Dartrey. I'd like to call him Richard Dawson, but search on Cremorne or Dartrey won't find him then. If we call him Lord Cremorne, search on Dawson or Dartrey won't find him. Jun-17-17    chessgames.com: That's an issue which should, in theory, be handled by the software. For example, to allow players to have "alternate names" that could handle people who go by different names, alternate spellings, or simply marriage. Jun-18-17    Tabanus: CG, that's what I wanted to hear! I suppose it's a lot of work though to figure it out, and to monitor it. In the "R. Cremorne" (which is dead wrong) case, perhaps "Richard Dawson" after all, as a temporary solution. See e. g. http://www.edochess.ca/players/p266.... Jun-18-17    zanzibar: <Tab> & <CG> an important topic - seems to be heading in the right direction. In <SCID>, the bio file allows ambiguous matching with "=" entries, e.g. < Cohn, Wilhelm #- GER [2450*] 1859.02.06--1913.08.17 %Bio EDO 553 %Bio CG 10552 %Bio _ %Bio .. %Bio Max Rating 2490 (1896/14/336) %Bio .. %Bio Major Tournaments (pre-1899) %Bio 1897 Berlin %Bio 1898 Cologne - 2nd-4th (3-way) = Cohn, William > Some players have many more such entries. 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