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Sep-22-17
 | | Tabanus: <CG> There's no correction slip link on the Millionaire Chess (Final) (2015) page. I think a correct name will be "Millionaire Chess (Rapid Tiebreaks Final) (2015)". The real final was the final of the Millionaire Chess (Knock-Out Rapid) (2015), between Naka and Le Quang Liem. |
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Sep-22-17
 | | chessgames.com: <There's no correction slip> Well then make one! Just kidding, I took care of it for you. I also made the game types "RAPID" and added NV (Nevada) to the Site. Yeah, I'll take care of that link, seeing that I'm the only person in CG history to ever have legitimately used it. |
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Sep-22-17
| | Tabanus: Thanks CG. I rewrote the intro a little to Millionaire Chess (2015), after finally finding out what happened there. And sorted the list to get the four finalists and the tiebreak players (with 5.5 points) on top of it. Not sure how successully. |
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Sep-22-17
| | chessgames.com: Testing out some new features:
Today's puzzle V Fedoseev vs D Bocharov, 2016 (White to play 23.?) with Stockfish
analysis of move 23. Stockfish correctly identifies 23.Rxc6! as the only winning move. ♔
Here's a mildly interesting question of chess semantics: In the game above, Stockfish did not analyze the position after 23.Rxc6! but rather the position right before it, i.e. Black's 22nd move. So technically, it's NOT analysis of move 23, it's analysis of 22...Nd7. If you peek into the URL you can see that's actually what it says we're asking of Stockfish where it says move=22.5. (Note that "move=22.5" is our internal representation for Black's 22nd move.) Nevertheless, as the variation Stockfish reveals begins with move 23, it seems only natural to call this "analysis of move 23." In my opinion, if we called it <analysis of move ...22> we'd only create confusion. Does anybody disagree? |
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Sep-22-17
| | chessgames.com: By way of comparison, here is some Stockfish evaluation for a basic Sicilian position: analysis of move 4...? Since it's evaluating White's move 4, it shows up as <4...?> to indicate that it's Black's move. Should we therefore say <4.?> when referring to White moves, just to keep things consistent with regards to the question-mark? |
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Sep-22-17
| | chessgames.com: Testing again on V Fedoseev vs D Bocharov, 2016 analysis of move 23.? Yeah, I like the consistency. Any objections? |
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Sep-23-17
| | Tabanus: Apparently not!
CG, it might be an idea to add "game type" (normal, rapid, blitz) to the nominate collection page? It could save some slips. |
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Sep-23-17
| | chessgames.com: <it might be an idea to add "game type" (normal, rapid, blitz) to the nominate collection page> My idea was always that would be unnecessary, because it's an unwritten rule that simuls are labeled as simuls, rapids are labeled as rapids, blitzes as blitzes, etc. The software has logic that hones in on all sorts of words (including "quick" and "ICCF" etc.) Does that not work on newly created tournaments, or have we just become lax with our labeling conventions? |
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| Sep-24-17 | | zanzibar: Did the default PGN viewer just get switched to Olga? My first instinct is to switch back to pgn4web, but I suppose I should force myself to at least try out the new features. Is there a quick, brief on the rationale on the reasons for the switch? (I suspect that going mobile is part of the reason, alas) Also, why are the forward/backward buttons asymmetrical? (I'm a bit fan of symmetry, and am always curious when it's broken) Lastly - where is the English piece notation setting that was promised? . |
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Sep-24-17
 | | Richard Taylor: <MissScarlett> I looked at your original collection of players who died young, I presume? A fascinating idea. <chessgames.com> I didn't realise you were near where the storm is. It is good things were backed up etc...I have often wondered if there is a twisting effect in the Carribean and around which causes these storms to gather "twisting force"...or simply to generate where there are differentials of see and land and so on. At least no earthquake. We have the odd earthquake here but significant storms in Auckland are rare. (He says, touching wood...) |
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Sep-24-17
| | Tabanus: <CG> Hmm, I take that back then. There are also "list-of-players" events with two or more kinds of time control. Or so I believe. |
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Sep-24-17
 | | keypusher: <cg> With Olga, I can't scroll down from the game to the kibitzes. Probably a blessing for the site, but I'm frustrated. I'm on a macbook air. |
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Sep-24-17
 | | saffuna: I can't scroll down with Olga, either, even far enough to return to the old layout. |
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Sep-24-17
 | | Check It Out: Olga doesn't display the current move number and move right below the board layout - can you add that feature? |
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Sep-24-17
| | chessgames.com: <Did the default PGN viewer just get switched to Olga?> Yes, because it offers functions that the other viewers do not, the primary of which is the ability to manipulate the pieces, and the ability to request Stockfish analysis of any position (whether in the game or of your own analysis.) <can't scroll with Olga> That's a shame, we spent a lot of time getting the scrolling "just right." Keep in mind that on Olga pieces are movable, so it won't allow scrolling on a tablet if you touch a square of a piece that can move. You have to touch an empty square, a piece that cannot legally move, or touch above/below the board. The previous two comments make it sound as if scrolling is disabled entirely. Are you sure? Note that there is an alternate way to switch your PGN viewer at Preferences Page. Also note that we set up a chessforum specifically to address Olga-issues here: Olga Viewer chessforum. |
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Sep-24-17
| | chessgames.com: <Olga doesn't display the current move number and move right below the board layout - can you add that feature?> They are below the board layout, but waaaay below, under the score itself. Moving things around is very possible. |
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| Sep-24-17 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: Dear <cg>--I can't see the pieces on the board (just a blank board) when the viewer is set to Olga for this game: K van der Weide vs X Wemmers, 2003 Everything works just fine when I switch the viewer to pgn4web. |
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Sep-24-17
 | | MissScarlett: <[Event "Isle of Man Open"]
[Site "Douglas ENG"]>
You might want to wait for tournament end, but the Isle of Man's ISO Alpha-3 code is <IMN>. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3... <<MissScarlett> I looked at your original collection of players who died young, I presume? A fascinating idea.> Not wholly original as I inherited it from another. Someone else has widened the net: User: prettyinpink |
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Sep-24-17
| | chessgames.com: <You might want to wait for tournament end, but the Isle of Man's ISO Alpha-3 code is IMN> Thanks, and you're right, there is no point in fixing it now since they will keep sending more PGN. When it's all said and done I can fix it by hand. Regarding K van der Weide vs X Wemmers, 2003, thank you for pointing that out, the issue has been resolved. |
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Sep-25-17
| | Tabanus: https://ratings.fide.com/advseek.ph..., no Isle of Man in FIDE's list (click on Country), I think because they don't have a separate chess federation. Cf. FIDE Country Codes. Unlike Wales and Scotland, Isle of Man is not a country but a "Crown dependency", similar to Jersey and Guernsey. |
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Sep-25-17
| | Check It Out: It's pretty funny that you have this headline in your chess news section: <Bellator 183 results: Patricky Freire edges Benson Henderson in chess match> http://mmajunkie.com/2017/09/bellat... Are you simply using key word algorithm searches for your news links? |
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Sep-25-17
| | Tabanus: CG, seeing both from kibitzing and the regulations at http://www.millionairechess.com/tie..., the following playoffs need to be changed to Blitz (it was 5 0 blitz): Millionaire Chess (Rapid Tiebreaks A) (2015) and
Millionaire Chess (Rapid Tiebreaks B) (2015). Not sure yet of Millionaire Chess (Rapid Tiebreaks Final) (2015), apparently it was 15 min rapid. |
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Sep-25-17
| | chessgames.com: <Are you simply using key word algorithm searches for your news links?> Yes, to be perfectly honest we don't have somebody scouring chess news to create that feature. From time to time I personally scan through it and remove stories that use chess in a purely metaphorical sense. <Tabanus> OK, I fixed the games as well as the titles of the events. <Isle of Man is not a country but a "Crown dependency"> That makes sense. Perhaps it's best left as ENG as we've done in previous years. |
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Sep-25-17
| | keypusher: CG -- just wanted to say Olga works fine on my phone and tablet and I'm enjoying the increased functionality. Anything else I'll say on the Olga forum. |
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Sep-25-17
| | chessgames.com: Thanks keypusher. We tried to do a beta-launch but too few people were using it to give us substantial feedback. Now the feedback is flowing in. In the next few weeks we'll improve it further. Also, probably this week, we're going to open up a new site area we call the "Analysis Laboratory." It is the crown jewel of the Stockfish function. The only thing holding us back are some finishing touches. |
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