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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1067 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Mar-29-18    Peligroso Patzer: There is a typo in the move score for this game: Averbakh vs Furman, 1960 As previously noted by two postings in the thread on the above-linked page, Black’s 63rd move should be <63. … Bc8> (instead of 63. ... B<e>8??). Mar-29-18    chessgames.com: <Peligroso> Thanks, ...Be8? surely wasn’t played. I left editor notes on the game regarding that move. Mar-30-18    chessgames.com: Regarding the GRENKE Chess Classic (2018) does anybody know if the 30s/move increment starts at move 60, or is in effect from move 1? Mar-30-18    WinKing: <chessgames.com: Regarding the GRENKE Chess Classic (2018) does anybody know if the 30s/move increment starts at move 60, or is in effect from move 1?> 30 sec. increment from move 1. Look below under Time Control. http://www.grenkechessclassic.de/en... Mar-30-18    chessgames.com: Thanks! That's great, I prefer it that way. Mar-31-18    morfishine: Hey <chessgames.com> Can you please erase or delete the game title for the following game? I am in total agreement with <patzer2> Ding Liren vs Lu Shanglei, 2012 Thanks for an effort towards decency and/or basic "appropriateness" ***** Mar-31-18    chessgames.com: When it won a pun contest in 2009 I had thought it was merely a reference to the American sitcom Seinfeld, and was shocked to learn about the actual tragedy that it was referring to. So yes, I tend to agree. Mar-31-18    OhioChessFan: It's not the nicest Pun ever, but what, you've had peasants barricading your ramparts for the last 6 years demanding you remove it? Mar-31-18    chessgames.com: You're right, all fixed now. Hope my substitute is suitable. Apr-02-18    MissScarlett: My submitted games are now up, but <Softlaw-Catchings> is missing. Is there a problem with the score? Apr-02-18    chessgames.com: I'm sorry I don't see any Softlaw-Catchings game in your recent batch. Please resubmit it. Apr-02-18    zanzibar: <YOU'RE POSTING A BIT TOO MUCH Recently, you've been posting very frequently. Please wait and try posting again. TIPS: Spend more time and thought composing your posts. Give other people time to reply to your posts before posting again. "Machine-gun posting" is discouraged; try combining multiple thoughts into a single post. Thank you.> Oh, you do say! Apr-02-18    zanzibar: <PLEASE DO NOT "FLOOD" THE FORUM You posted a message only 10 seconds ago. Please wait for another 5 seconds before posting again. Thank you.> Oh, you don't say! Apr-02-18    zanzibar: <CG> why are you making my life miserable?! First, you don't recognize that Cyrillic mark-up doesn't expand to ~8 characters/letter due to HTML encoding: Smyslov vs Reshevsky, 1948 (kibitz #5) forcing me to painfully break up a simple post into multiple parts.... but then you accuse me of flooding the forum. Apr-03-18    Tabanus: Unsourced Cyrillic, not for me. <CG> I'm using Ctrl F a lot (for fast finding), but on the game pages it just flips the board. Apr-03-18    chessgames.com: <zanzibar> Don't complain, on Twitter you'd have 140 characters :) No really, I understand the problem, and I'm sure you've surmised that messages are capped by their byte size and not by screen real estate. I have an idea of how to solve it but it's kind of fuzzy. Some way to measure the "visual length" of a string and enforce that instead fo the actual length. But that's not the entire solution, because there really is a hard-limit to the size that a post can be in the database, and if we ignore that limit we'll simply face truncation. <on the game pages [ctrl-F] just flips the board.> Indeed, that's been annoying me ever since we launched Olga. I've discussed ways to fix it with Chris, but they all have their quirks, and it still remains a nuisance. I can think of two ways to fix it, the proper way (detecting the control key and using the information) or the brainless way (make it "I" for "invert" instead of "F" for "flip".) I'll try the first method first. Apr-03-18    zanzibar: <chessgames> let's not get deflected by potshots, at least for a moment, and instead focus on the real problem here.... When I post Cyrillic <CG> automagically translates it into HTML-speak... so that a good Russian phrase like this: <В нашей стране шахматы всегда развивались под влиянием чигоринских традиций, а советские мастера подняли шахматное искусство на новую высоту. > Shows up like this in the preview screen: <&#1042; &#1085;&#1072;&#1096;&#1077;&- #1081; &#1089;&#1090;&#1088;&#1072;&- #1085;&#1077; &#1096;&#1072;&#1093;&#1084;&- #1072;&#1090;&#1099; &#1074;&#1089;&#1077;&#1075;&- #1076;&#1072; &#1088;&#1072;&#1079;&#1074;&- #1080;&#1074;&#1072;&#1083;&#108- 0;&#1089;&#1100; &#1087;&#1086;&#1076; &#1074;&#1083;&#1080;&#1103;&- #1085;&#1080;&#1077;&#1084; &#1095;&#1080;&#1075;&#1086;&- #1088;&#1080;&#1085;&#1089;&#108- 2;&#1080;&#1093; &#1090;&#1088;&#1072;&#1076;&- #1080;&#1094;&#1080;&#1081;, &#1072; &#1089;&#1086;&#1074;&#1077;&- #1090;&#1089;&#1082;&#1080;&#107- 7; &#1084;&#1072;&#1089;&#1090;&- #1077;&#1088;&#1072; &#1087;&#1086;&#1076;&#1085;&- #1103;&#1083;&#1080; &#1096;&#1072;&#1093;&#1084;&- #1072;&#1090;&#1085;&#1086;&#107- 7; &#1080;&#1089;&#1082;&#1091;&- #1089;&#1089;&#1090;&#1074;&#108- 6; &#1085;&#1072; &#1085;&#1086;&#1074;&#1091;&- #1102; &#1074;&#1099;&#1089;&#1086;&- #1090;&#1091;. > No wonder we don't get much help from native Russian speakers on <CG>. This is both horrible and unworkable. How is one supposed to edit the Russian? You can't. And no wonder the length-filter cut also gets it wrong - it's not counting the html-entities as just one character. Apr-03-18    chessgames.com: Oddly I don't get the break <74;&- #1080> (I get one encoded word one each line) but in any case I agree it's completely unworkable as it stands. Apr-03-18    zanzibar: <<Tab> Unsourced Cyrillic, not for me. > Well <Tab>, let's acknowledge the side-swipe, though it could be taken as against either the language itself, or the lack of sourcing, or both. Now, as concerns the sourcing, you could be helpful like <KP> was, or you could just complain. Both options take about the same effort - since a simple google search on any short snippet of Botvinnik's quote (in the original Russian) immediately finds the source. Apr-03-18    Tabanus: <z> You're the one posting, you take the effort. But if there's a way to make more Russians post here so we can understand, it'd be welcome. <CG> Thanks. I've fallen into the "trap" a few times, but can live with it really. Apr-03-18    chessgames.com: <Tab> We're going to change it to I-for-"invert board" and just be done with it. Ctrl-F is too important of a key to even risk interfering with. Apr-03-18    MissScarlett: < Please resubmit it.> Done. Apr-03-18    zanzibar: <<z> You're the one posting, you take the effort.> <Tab> please don't tell me how to post... I may ramble, but I don't vandal. Apr-03-18    zanzibar: <<chessgames> Oddly I don't get the break <74;&- #1080>> Implement a verbatim mode, and then we can compare notes in detail. Until then, it's broad brushstrokes - just trying to communicate the grist of the matter. Apr-04-18    offramp: Hey! Here's a great idea! How about a message saying <"THIS GAME WAS TRANSMITTED LIVE AT CHESSGAMES.COM"> on all games so transmitted? That's only for games in the future It's not backdated, which would be complicated. It would explain why some dreary games have 46 pages of Kibitzing and make potential subscribers think, "I could of bin dere for dat." Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1067 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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