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Feb-15-21 chessgames.com chessforum    chessgames.com: Dear Chessgames.com members: We've recently become aware of a technical difficulty with the "engine" server, which is used for game/move analysis. It appears that a hardware failure may be responsible for making the analysis engine unavailable. We're actively ...      Jan-22-21 Santa Claus    chessgames.com: Dear chessgames members: Santa Claus <finally> got around to sending us his list of lucky winners for this year's "Dear Santa" contest! We thank Santa for his diligence, and have learned that his tardiness in providing his list was <unavoidable> due to ...      May-31-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    chessgames.com: <♕♔♕ Bettors and Worse ♕♔♕> As we start this year's ChessBookie cycle with the Summer Leg, I would first like to thank our fearless new Bookie <jingohanson>, who made it possible to continue the game. Next, I hereby announce in ...      Mar-14-20 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)    chessgames.com: Everybody please keep the political bickering off this page.      Feb-22-20 Kibitzer's Café    chessgames.com: May I humbly request a change from REM, <Hazz> You decide. :)      Mar-12-19 Spring Chess Classic (A) (2019)    chessgames.com: We've added the games through Round 9 for the St. Louis Spring Chess Classic (Group A).      Mar-08-19 Prague Chess Festival (Challengers) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for the Prague Chess Festival Masters and Challengers sections, and we'll include the Open section results as they become available. For news & details, see the official site at http://praguechessfestival.com/      Mar-08-19 Prague Chess Festival (Masters) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for the Prague Chess Festival Masters and Challengers sections, and we'll include the Open section results as they become available. For news & details, see the official site at http://praguechessfestival.com/      Mar-08-19 World Team Chess Championship (Women) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for Rounds 1-3 of both the Open and Women's sections of the 2019 FIDE World Team Chess Championship. For news & details, see the official site at http://wteams.astana2019.fide.com/e...      Mar-08-19 World Team Chess Championship (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for Rounds 1-3 of both the Open and Women's sections of the 2019 FIDE World Team Chess Championship. For news & details, see the official site at http://wteams.astana2019.fide.com/e...

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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1071 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-16-18    Dr Winston OBoogie: I'm sorry to hear about your mother, <Winking>. I hope you're okay, I'm sure someone else will step up and run the bookies. :) Apr-17-18    chessgames.com: <WinKing> I am very sorry for your loss. Don't worry about the ChessBookie, we'll keep it going in-house until your return. I'll make a post there shortly. Apr-17-18    chessgames.com: <MissScarlett> asks <Why can't the outstanding contents of Olimpbase and Britbase be harvested into <cg.com>?> Or more generally, one may ask "Why can't we just take this giant file of PGN obtained somewhere and import it?" The short answer is, of course, we can. The results are predictable. We'll end up with a few new games that we didn't have before, a ton of duplicates that are ignored, and a few near-duplicates that slip through the system, because they have different moves, a different year, or some other issue. Depending on the site of the PGN source this could be a very quick job or entail a lot of work. (Happily that work can mostly be done by biographers now.) With regards to Olimpbase: Forgive my ignorance, but is there a repository for their PGN? All I see are cute javascript tricks to make windows pop up. Apr-17-18    offramp: To <chessgames.com>. When I am on the page for the chess Challenge, Chessgames Challenge: Team White vs Team Black, 2017, there is a small advert for The Imperial Collector Series. Clicking on that always takes me to The Chessgames Store which says: <We're Sorry... The page you requested was not found, and we have a fine guess why. If you typed the URL directly, please make sure the spelling is correct. If you clicked on a link to get here, the link is outdated....> Could someone update the link? Apr-17-18    chessgames.com: Thanks offramp, it's hard to keep up with that kind of thing. Apr-17-18    Benzol: <chessgames> <With regards to Olimpbase: Forgive my ignorance, but is there a repository for their PGN? All I see are cute javascript tricks to make windows pop up.> Perhaps you could contact Wojciech Bartelski Apr-17-18    MissScarlett: <With regards to Olimpbase: Forgive my ignorance, but is there a repository for their PGN?> There are PGN zip files for each event. They're available on the RHS of the respective competition pages, e.g. Men's Olympiads. Apr-17-18    zanzibar: <Chessgames> RE Olimpbase <With regards to Olimpbase: Forgive my ignorance, but is there a repository for their PGN? All I see are cute javascript tricks to make windows pop up.> You must have missed the left at Albuquerque on your way to Pismo beach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSM... Check out all the PGN downloads here: http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html... They're all ZIP files, similar to many of <CG>'s downloads. Eg http://www.olimpbase.org/1924x/game... (Paris (1924)) Apr-17-18    chessgames.com: Oh, I see now. That's great. Maybe a prudent first step would be to take one of the smaller files, import it, and assess the situation. Apr-18-18    HeMateMe: pressing "f" no longer allows one to view a game with black on the lower board. Is there a new way to reverse colors and play black from the bottom? Apr-18-18    Tabanus: <HeMateMe> Looks like I (Invert) is the new way. Apr-18-18    HeMateMe: I gave it a try and it works, thank you. Apr-18-18    zanzibar: <chessgames> before, or maybe commensurate with, the OlimpBase uploading, I believe the higher priority should be given to getting the tournament bulk upload process in place. We really should move to the more efficient procedure of bulk uploading and grapple with the tools and processes needed, once and for all. Apr-18-18    zanzibar: Another item on my wish list - a way to embed a <Search Kibitzing> search into an url... E.g. I'd like to leave a link for <MissScarlett> to do a <Searching Kibitzing> on the following: <swiderski suicide> . Apr-18-18    WannaBe: You can always leave a search URL, but if the other member is not premium, it may not work. Also, consider ignore list, both you and the member you want to leave it to. Finally, hack the URL: Search Kibitzing In the above example, (you may have to hover the mouse and read the link, but not click on it) I am searching for "technical" and page is two. To search for "technical draw", it would be this (But it is also page 2): Search Kibitzing Notice, when you hover the mouse, it is page 2, because the first page have no "direct" URL. In your case, you need to hack the URL: Search Kibitzing By copying the original URL and delete the ending ?page=2 Hope this helps. (And please don't report me to NSA or CIA, and goodness sake, Facebook, or Google...) Apr-18-18    zanzibar: Ah, <WannaBe>, thx for the useful hack. Apr-18-18    zanzibar: Might be more obvious though, if <CG> updated the url when doing a <Search Kibitzing> like they do for some other searches. Apr-18-18    WannaBe: Why are there SWATs outside my house and people banging on my door?? =)))) Apr-18-18    zanzibar: Ya got a warrant for this search?! Apr-18-18    chessgames.com: You know, with 90 seconds of HTML hacking I can magically make those links work without need the for hacking. BRB Apr-19-18    WannaBe: I really hate it, when the admins up-stage me. =)) Apr-19-18    chessgames.com: We now have Sharjah Masters (2018) although it's not on the homepage at this time. Apr-19-18    Stonehenge: Great, and now the games that are in the queue <please>. And please quit giving MissScarlett a preferential treatment. Apr-19-18    thegoodanarchist: <chessgames.com: We now have Sharjah ...> Yeah... I remember when I had that... A doctor can give you an ointment which will clear it right up. Apr-19-18    chessgames.com: <Stonehenge> No problem, one thing though, this game: [Event "URS-ch FL55"] [Site "Lvov"] [Date "1987.11.14"] [Round "7"] [White "Chernin, Alexander"] [Black "Dreev, Alexey"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] We have it on file as A Chernin vs Romanishin, 1987. Not sure which one is right. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 1071 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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