Or is it one of the only display options here on <CG>?

Doing a google search I get this:

http://www.chesschat.org/showthread...

CVD is Chess Viewer Deluxe that requires Java.

Since a lot of browsers no longer support Java, due to security reasons, chessgames.com moved on to Olga.

This also happened after a botched Java update, where the viewer took 4 minutes to load (literally)

40 moves in the first screen (time control) and then >> for moves 41 to 80.

(Not on the bottom, in a jumbled mess, and I can't pick out the moves and their move number)

I also like CVD because I can do a lot of variation moves and can always go back to the original (PGN) move.

If you don't mind a quick copy-and-paste it's really easy to grab a game off <CG> and run it just like ya wanna.

I believe there's a stripped-down Android version (not on the main download page though), but I haven't run that one.

7 days to go!

Countdown to Gashimov 2018:

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This tournament will run from Apr. 19th thru Apr. 28th 2018. (9 Rounds)

Participants include: Carlsen, Mamedyarov, Karjakin, Ding Liren, Giri, Topalov, Radjabov, Wojtaszek, Navara & Mamedov

Average rating: 2767 (as of 4/10/18) - Category XXI

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Schedule - http://shamkirchess.com/content/207

Round 1 is Thursday April 19th & it starts @ 15:00hrs(3pm) Shamkir, Azerbaijan time(7am chessgames time). All rounds begin @ 15:00 hrs. except for the 9th round which begins one hour earlier @ 14:00 hrs(2pm).

< 3 Prediction Contests: (Win virtual medals - Gold, Silver & Bronze) >

User: lostemperor (FINAL STANDINGS PREDICTIONS) - Predict the order the players will finish. Run & hosted by <lostemperor>. (3 categories to medal in)

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User: OhioChessFan (Moves Prediction Contest) - Predict the result 1-0, 1/2, or 0-1 & the number of moves. (4 categories to medal in). This contest is run by <chessmoron> & hosted by <OhioChessFan>.

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You mixed Rapid with Blitz and then cited the stats.

I said blitz. I didn't say anything about Rapid, so those stats are meaningless.

I used to find the opening explorer valuable, but now that I see so many blitz games it undermines my confidence in the stats. When I'm looking at a variation and on move 6 it says if you play x white wins 39% of the time, you have to search that position, look at the games and see if there aren't 4 or 5 blitz games skewing the stats.

However, after reading the follow up conversation here, it's become clear that I'm the only one who thinks that blitz chess doesn't produce meaningful data in the same way as a standard time control game.

<Big Pawn> OK, I didn't realize you were making the distinction between blitz and rapid, but the idea is the same. If we wanted to, we could delve into the statistics of rapid vs classic as well as blitz vs classical, which may be interesting, but that's not going to change how the OE currently operates.

<Keyser Soze / O'Boogie> Grow up, both of you. I don't want to hear anything more of photos which may or may not be nude, and may or may not be members of this site. Ridiculous.

<whiteshark> <I'm still blocked from further comp. analysis (1hr +)> I hate that. Let me explain what's really happening here.

About the Analysis Laboratory : As you noted, the error messages are *extremely* abstruse. I programmed it to show the actual error message that the chess library outputs instead of flatly saying "BAD PGN" ... but in retrospect, perhaps it's better to say nothing at all than to confuse the end-user with <Use of uninitialized value $from in hash element at /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2/Chess/PGN/EPD.pm line 913.>

Next, it's important to understand that if you feed the engine server either a bad FEN or a bad PGN it usually will reject it as above, but not always, depending on what the problem is. The technical issue is that our chess library sometimes disagrees with Stockfish about what is and is not kosher.

For example, a FEN with 3 white kings on the board will be instantly rejected by both our library and Stockfish. However a FEN where both players are simultaneously in check will not trigger any problem with our library, although Stockfish will (rightly) refuse to process it. Another thing I've noticed is that our library has no problem with FENs that describe a checkmate position, but Stockfish will flatly reject it, without even saying that there is an error. Tiny flaws in PGN like extraneous/missing characters are also a common source of this problem.

Therefore, we currently have this annoying category of erroneous FENs/PGNs which slip through one gauntlet only to be snubbed by Stockfish. They show up in your list of pending analyses, and you can tell they are broken because they have no graphic to display the position it is working on.

Because you are limited to 4 concurrent analyses, these "stuck" ones gobble up space. There is a job that runs (every few hours, I think) that flushes out all such processes, which is a really bad way to solve the problem. Finding a fix for the stuck-process issue is on our to-do list, but meanwhile you can manually click the "terminate analysis" link next to the broken jobs so that you're not locked out of analysis.

<O-O vs 0-0> This is a well known issue, and the easiest way to "fix" it is to make a simple substitution, swapping out 0-0 with O-O and 0-0-0 for O-O-O. CG must have code that does that in 10 different places; I will make it 11 and fix the laboratory to bypass that common mistake.

<OhioChessFan> <In major tournaments, such as Grenke, you have a game page for what will be the next day's live game set up a day in advance. In today's case, it's tomorrow's Caruana-Aronian. Why not open a page for all of the games?> We've stubbornly stuck to our tradition of showing one-game-at-one-time for various reasons, not the least of which is that when things go awry we have to resort to manual methods (i.e. typing moves in by hand).

It's nice to imagine us being more in the style of chess24 where you can flip from one game to another, with all games being updated constantly, and links from one live game to the others—but we're not there yet.

We considered the compromise (which maybe you are suggesting?) where the discussion threads are opened prior to the games being uploaded. In other words you can talk about a game in progress even though it's not displayed at the top of the page, then later the moves suddenly all appear at once. To me that seems rather backward, and there's always the tournament page for that. People post a FEN from a live game and make their comments.

In short, let's look ahead to the full-blown solution with multiple live games each with their own live discussion.

In the Chessbookie Hall of Fame page (I must say it makes quite the impression to read 'Count Wedgemore, Champion of the World'. I like the sound of that), the just finished Championship leg is wrongly labeled Winter2016. Of course it should say Winter2018. Also, for some reason, for me and TIMER who won the Winter2016 Championship, the amount we "won" don't specify 'chessbucks', like it does for every other winner of every other leg.

I think it would be wonderful if we could archive a tournament he did well in, namely 'Amsterdam IBM 1973'

There are games archived here, but the tournament is not

Thanks,

best always, morf

<morf> there is this game collection by <FSR> that could be nominated to go to the Tournament Index: Game Collection: Vidmar Memorial

<MissScarylett>

This has come up before a few times and my memory is shot but I can try- in the past <Daniel> said that the model of <Cg.com> was different than other chess websites that host game scores. He said that the wholesale import of other websites was not something that should be encouraged. I think part of the reason was that there are so many errors in existing databases that cg.com should rely on informed submitters to document the pgns before handing them in? Like the way you guys hunt down verification of scores in <the Bistro>.

Apologies <Daniel> if I have misrememberd/misquoted.