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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1027 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Sep-19-17    Tabanus: On Moscow Open A (2016) I can't see the trophy symbol, but when adding &crosstable=1 to get the standings list, it's there. Sep-19-17    Tabanus: <On Moscow Open A (2016) I can't see the trophy symbol> But now I can, after adding text (link to crosstable) in the bio. Heh.. Sep-19-17    Domdaniel: <CG> I assume we will soon see a page for Isle of Man 2017, and a link on the homepage? As it is probably the strongest open event ever, and is already featuring on the bookie page (and being mentioned on the world cup page) it is perhaps time it had its own forum. Sep-19-17    Stonehenge: I have a bunch of games in the queue, please upload them. Sep-19-17    chessgames.com: <I assume we will soon see a page for Isle of Man 2017, and a link on the homepage?> Absolutely. I have to just glean the info from here: http://iominternationalchess.com Sep-20-17    chessgames.com: <Stonehenge> <Benzol> Your games are online. Also, Isle of Man Open (2017) is promising to be a very exciting event. Sep-20-17    Stonehenge: Thank you :) Sep-20-17    whiteshark: <ceegee> There's a 'bug' on Opening Explorer showing 2 times <8... Nxb4> (although there's only one legal 8...Nxb4). Could you please investigate & repair it. TIA Sep-20-17    chessgames.com: Thanks <whiteshark>, interesting phenomenon. <Tab> <But.. does it mean that the default view won't be changed any more?> In principle the functionality shouldn't be changed one bit, although we noticed there are situations where the trophy wasn't appearing. Before that wasn't an issue because it was just a lack of a little decoration, but if we're going to make it a useful link we have to get consistent. <I don't know what a Unicode trophy is.> If you can see this as a little gold (or maybe black) trophy icon then you know what it is: 🏆 If you see nothing or a blank square above, then your machine cannot render a Unicode trophy. Sep-20-17    chessgames.com: As the Isle of Man Open is going to overlap with the World Cup final, which should we broadcast live? Sep-20-17    OhioChessFan: Strong as Isle of Man is, you have to go with the chess world importance of the World Cup Final. Sep-20-17    chessgames.com: Yeah, good call. We can always switch to the Isle of Man for the last few rounds. Sep-20-17    Tabanus: <CG> Huh? Our worlds must be very different :) I meant what the viewer first sees when clicking on a Swiss or round robin: the list of players, or the table. Never mind, we need to edit a lot more first. Sep-20-17    chessgames.com: <Tab> I know what you mean, and I was right when I said "in principle, the functionality <shouldn't> be changed one bit." (In principle, there's no difference between principle and practice. In practice, there is. — Yogi Berra) Probably like yourself I've noticed an awful large number of tournaments without the natural leaderboard default lately. When I look at the Tournament table it simply says that the leaderboard is turned off. I'm not sure what to make of it other than fixing them when I find them. Perhaps I need to conduct a wide assessment of which events have leaderboards turned off and turn on the correct ones. You can almost do it algorithmically: if the number of games for the top players are all the same, it's a pretty safe bet that a leaderboard is applicable. I might make it one of those CG Editor controlled features, to flip the default leaderboard on/off. Sep-21-17    Tabanus: <CG> OK. <if the number of games for the top players are all the same> That should work, except when the sections are mixed, such as in World Cadets U12 (2016). There are some difficult cases such as USSR Championship (1920). Should the leaderboard be edited? I suppose not. Should it be a list of players instead? I suppose yes, since there's a final ranking crosstable in the bio. But most newer events don't have any such. <Editor controlled features, to flip the default leaderboard on/off.> I think that's a good idea. And if an editor disagreed and switched the default setting, it would be no big deal. I'll make an effort in editing leaderboards, but there are terribly many. So many events.. Sep-21-17    Tabanus: In USSR Championship (1923), on the other hand, the leaderboard has been edited (perhaps by me). Here it might be best with a list of players, with the ability to trophy-switch to an unedited leaderboard. If desired (or necessary), can an edited leaderboard be made non-edited (i. e. game-based) again? Btw, I'm slightly worried about the "clear placements" option. It's a little bit too easy ...? I've never used it. Will it also clear the + - = fields? Imagine there is a vandal among the editors. Sep-21-17    chessgames.com: <Will it also clear the + - = fields?> No it won't, just return the list to sorted order (i.e. tied players randomly presented.) <Imagine there is a vandal among the editors.> I do keep that scenario in mind, but there is far worse they could do if they were motivated. The remedy is not to strip out of the features but to log every change so that editors can keep one another in check. Sep-21-17    chessgames.com: We fixed the game types for World Cup (2017) so some are designated and rapid, blitz, and Aronian vs M Vachier-Lagrave, 2017 is armageddon. Sep-21-17    Tabanus: <just return the list to sorted order (i.e. tied players randomly presented.> As it was before editing, or after editing (but with tied players randomly presented)? <log every change> is good. I just can't think of any situation where "clear placements" would be necessary. Unless... yikes. Sep-21-17    chessgames.com: It returns the list to the "database sorted order" with tied players randomly orders amongst each other. You see there's a field called "place" and normally they are all zeros so they have no effect, but as soon as you fill in one to say "1" or "2" etc. it will sort them using that number. I've actually used clear placements. Some over-ambitious editor who wasn't quite clear of the purpose of the leaderboard editor edited the placements while a tournament was in round 5 out of 9. I imagine they wanted to make sure their favorite player was at the top of the list, since they were in fact winning according to Sonneborn–Berger, or something like that. Anyhow, in the worst case, you'd have to redo a list of participants because somebody cleared out the official placement order. I could turn it into an admin-only feature if you're losing sleep over it. Sep-21-17    thegoodanarchist: Please help. Somehow I found the top games list for cg.com users. Top game of course was game of the century by Fischer versus Byrne. 4th was Rubinstein versus Rotlewi. Somehow I closed the tab and cannot find it again! Clearly I am in chess purgatory. If someone could post the link, either here or in my forum, I won't have to cry myself to sleep for the next 20 years. Thanks in advance. Sep-21-17    WannaBe: Home page, right side column, scroll down for data filled statistics. Sep-21-17    chessgames.com: The page was Notable Chess Games, and we just added it to the menu bar at the bottom of every page, so nobody will ever get lost again. Sep-22-17    Tabanus: <redo a list of participants> Yes, and the lists can be very long, e. g. Tradewise Gibraltar (2016) where I sorted all 254 players because all the games are there. <I could turn it into an admin-only feature> Yes, please? I slept well tonight, but probably only you should be able to use it. Sep-22-17    thegoodanarchist: Thank you <WannaBe> and <chessgames> Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1027 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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