<Because of the integration with Stockfish and the Opening Explorer, combined with the Analysis Laboratory, it is a little problematical to ban computers 100%. For example, if you look at the OE page for this position you'll see instantly the move that Stockfish prefers.

Therefore we're going to handle the computer-policy like this: you can perform computer analysis of any position you like (including ones that you believe might come late in the game) — and you can post such analysis here if you like — however, as soon as a move is played that "leaves the book" (a theoretical novelty unknown to the Opening Explorer) then all computer analysis must cease. Anything posted to the pages is still fair game but further processing is over.>

<FIDE GP coming up> Yes it is! FIDE Grand Prix Mallorca (2017).

Champions Showdown: Carlsen-Ding (Rapid G/10) (2017)

We've abandoned the practice of naming the files of our players after their names, e.g. no more garrykasparov.jpg or robertjamesfischer.jpg — now it's simply the Chessgames PID.

For example if you go pay a visit to Max Lange and right-click on his graphic, you'll find it takes you to http://www.chessgames.com/f/15965.jpg. What this means, of course, is that the OTHER Max Lange won't display his photo automatically, and what's more we can have two different photos for people with identical names.

Now, can we get the player names in collated format (aka FIDE format, i.e. <last, first>)?

A user setting would allow for individual games to have the names in the old format, if for some (bizarre) reason they preferred it in the PGN.

But such a change is much needed, would allow much greater and easier cross-checking with other sites, and greatly facilitate uploading new games.

What say you?

<the title of the event> But you have 7 events. I still hope you will merge them all, so that the table at Game Collection: Champions Showdown 2017 could be added to the bio. I could also add a short explanatory text (in my dubious, but editable, English).

Anyway, right at the start of each series the teams have a short conference to decide on a name.

<Appendix B. Blitz

B.1

A ‘blitz’ game’ is one where all the moves must be completed in a fixed time of 10 minutes or less for each player; or the allotted time plus 60 times any increment is 10 minutes or less.>

I saw an American episode ages ago, and thought it was the stupidest thing I ever saw. It pretends to teach the viewer business acumen — but then pits teams on a contrived contest (to see who could sell the most hamburgers) in which absolutely no business sense was required. I believe the winning team was the one who incurred the greatest losses. Good thing the star of that show found another job, because he was terrible as a TV personality.

Well for starters, it's not <last, first> — it's actually <surname, given name>.

But to answer your question: we're working on it. Before a solution can be proposed there is an extensive list of issues to address:

• Players without first names. (e.g. "Garcia")
• Players without last names. (e.g. "Stockfish")
• Players with first or last names that are not known to us. (e.g. "Judy")
• Players with multiple last names, only one of which is in current use. (e.g. any married/remarried women)
• Players with last names that are commonly truncated (e.g. you rarely see Capablanca y Graupera used, but that is indeed his last name.)
• Players who's surname is displayed first because of the conventions of their country (e.g. Hou Yifan, Ding Liren, etc.)
• How do we distinguish between Westernized names and the "properly" written name? (e.g. Réti vs Reti)
• What ever will become of Flight Engineer and Science Officer Greg Chamitoff?

OK the last one was a joke, but there are a lot of circumstances to cover so it's not a one-day hack-job. Some of those situations seem to have very easy answers while others are more thorny. It will come, and we're going to do it better than FIDE.

Yes. I am primarily saying that I don't like the Team White/Black names. I am on Team White but there have been dozens of other Team Whites in the past. I feel no connection to them.

Couldn't you use the voting mechanism used in the Caissars to select a name? It would occupy the week prior to move 1.

Then, instead of Team White v Team Black (2017) as a game we might have
<TEAM TUNGUSKA v TEAM KRAKATOA>.

Let's not get distracted on this...

Let's make it easy on you to start - where FIDE card has a comma in the name, <CG> should just copy their convention.

Next - I'll make a volunteer mapping of all those players who are in Z-base (i.e. all major historical *tournament* players up to 1898).

That should be enough to get the wheels rolling.

A quick word about Capablanca -

<CG> has three names for each player, iirc. A short name, used in HTML tables, a full name, used in the PGN, and a long name, used on the player bio pages.

I'm mostly interested in the PGN names, so the complications of "y Graupera" can be relegated to the bio pages. There the "collation" name could just show up as a header name - the full name, with full UTF-8 encoding could be given in the first line of the bio (I still suggest ASCII encoding for the PGN at the moment, for maximal compatibility).

In fact, I like the wiki convention where the player's name is also given in their native script (Cyrillic, Mandarin, Greek, whatever).

BTW- If the player uses Chinese or Hungarian conventions as their preference then their full name = collation name, and its obvious from the fact that the collation name doesn't have a comma.

The present of the comma makes for an easy and obvious transformation from collation format to "<CG>" format.

E.g.

<Flight Engineer and Science Officer Greg Chamitoff>

is given as

<Chamitoff,
Flight Engineer and Science Officer Greg>