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| Sep-23-09 | | arsen387: Hello <CG>. are the correspondence games considered in some of the existing categories (classical, blitz or rapid) or is there a category only for CC games? |
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| Sep-23-09 | | Benzol: <chessgames> I've submitted a correction about N Padevsky vs Korchnoi, 1956 but I'm not sure that I gave the correct result. Hopefully I said that it should be 0-1 i.e. that Black won. Can you check this please.
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Sep-23-09
 | | chessgames.com: <arsen387> For now, correspondence games are "classical" with the exception of exhibition correspondence games like the Chessgames Challenge ones. We hope to identify all correspondence games one day but for now the job of separating the classical from the blitz/rapid is a big enough job. <whiteshark> <If I'm not mistaken, ALL <Mindsport 2008> games were 25 minutes RAPIDs> I think you're right and very soon we're going to be asking for a great effort of volunteers to help us sort of all that stuff out. Not quite yet though! Thanks in advance. <2 dates of modifying are unchanged in the main directory> That's just a property of Unix; those are the categories with subdirectories. (By the way, please don't link directly to the zipfile directory like that; the URL is like a password that lets premium users into the archive.) <Benzol> You did in fact type 1-0 but that's OK, we see the situation now and it's fixed. |
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| Sep-24-09 | | Open Defence: <chessgames.com> we could perhaps think of tagging ICCF games separately, it would be a valuable resource for our chessgames challenges :) |
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Sep-24-09
| | chessgames.com: <tagging ICCF games separately> Yes and no; we think that correspondence games in general should be distinguished from the rest, e.g. it should be possible to say "Show me Max Euwe correspondence games". That would be quite interesting! On the other hand, when it comes time to compute Euwe's win-loss-draw statistics, we think his correspondence efforts should count as much as his OTB efforts. (Some would argue they should count even more!) Trivia: we have at least 1,322 blindfold games in the database. |
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| Sep-24-09 | | whatthefat: <chessgames.com: we think that correspondence games in general should be distinguished from the rest, e.g. it should be possible to say "Show me Max Euwe correspondence games"> Absolutely, a search based on game format would be a big improvement. <On the other hand, when it comes time to compute Euwe's win-loss-draw statistics, we think his correspondence efforts should count as much as his OTB efforts> I don't agree with that at all. Unless a game was played in standard format, I don't think it should contribute to the default statistics. Timmerman is a good example - his playing strength and even his opening repertoire is completely different in correspondence as compared to OTB. Perhaps if a player has >50% of their games tagged as correspondence then the statistics could default to correspondence rather than OTB (but with the option of switching to OTB statistics). |
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Sep-24-09
| | chessgames.com: <whatthefat> OK, well obviously there will be some differences of opinion--ideally we can offer the stats sliced up and presented in every way you can possibly want them. Then you can see Hans Berliner's incredible correspondence record as being separate from his OTB record, and if you want to mash them both together, you can do that too. One thing is for sure, it's a big improvement to be able to offer choices, whereas right now "mash everything together" is effectively the only choice. On a completely different subject:
We have these two players, Elmira Khasanova and Elmira Hasanova. Both of them are strong Russian female players, but the former must be fully adult (as evidenced by playing at the USSR Spartakiad in 1979) while the latter must be quite young (as evidenced by her playing in the "Under 12 Girls" section in 1997). Some of the games by Elmira Hasanova came to us spelled Khasanova, but it was obviously the same player so we merged the Khasanovas into the Hasanovas. Now we're wondering: did we merge them the wrong way? Do we have the names correct as they stand? Is this a common transliteration error, Kh- and H- being interchanged? If we decide to change young Elmira's name into the Kh- spelling, that would give us two Elimira Hasanovas in the database. We always grit our teeth when we see that situation but if it must be done, we do it. (By the way, there is also Fliura Khasanova, and she's a WGM.) |
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Sep-24-09
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: http://chesslab.com attributes the Elmira Khasanova games to Fliura Khasanova (1979) and "Elena Khasanova" (1990) (on the other hand http://chesslive.de agrees with you...) What we can be sure about, though, is that Fliura Khasanova is also
F Uskova, Uskova Fliura (KAZ) and Uskova Fliura :) Kh/H is just a matter of which transliteration one prefers, neither is usually an error if the name is officially Cyrillic (as here) though English generally seems to prefer Kh. FIDE uses "Hasanova" for Elmira and "Khasanova" for Fliura. There's probably only one Elmira Kh/Hasanova. |
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Sep-24-09
| | chessgames.com: <SwitchingQuylthulg> Great research -- thanks! F Khasanova vs S Kruchonok, 1979 makes more sense than a woman who shows up to play a single game in a high level Russian tournament never to be heard from again! The 1990 game is an open tournament and therefore not as clear. We also had no idea that Khasanova=Uskova. We have nobody on staff who speaks Russian so we can be dense with some of this stuff. Thanks again. |
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Sep-24-09
| | chessgames.com: Note that the 1990 game says "round 1", and by most Swiss tournament rules it's impossible for two highly rated players to face off on the first round. Chesslab isn't always perfect but it doesn't seem likely they would just make up the name "Elena" if they didn't have a reason to know that. Ergo, the 1990 game will be attributed to the new player record Elena Khasanova. That pretty much sorts it out, thanks again. |
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| Sep-24-09 | | nescio: The database 365Chess has many more games of the two (three?) players, but has had the same problem without solving it:
http://www.365chess.com/players/Elm...
http://www.365chess.com/players/Elm...
The problem is the transliteration of the Russian letter which looks like an X, but which I can't reproduce here because it is always changed in Õ. It represents a sound for which English has no seperate letter and which is pronounced like a very hard H or a very soft G. In German it is often transliterated as Ch and I wouldn't be surprised if you have sometimes encountered names like Chasin or Charitonov in PGN's. |
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Sep-24-09
| | chessgames.com: <nescio> It's very common for these errors to multiply online as all chess database sites are pooling from the same sources. What you say about the "very soft g" makes perfect sense. And yes we've been "chasin" transliterations for years. ;) |
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| Sep-24-09 | | nescio: <chessgames.com> You're lucky to be able to stick to English. I read several languages and I am accustomed to see for example the name Yusupov (English) spelled as Youssoupov (French), Jusupov (Italian), Jussupow (German) or Joessoepov (Dutch) :) |
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Sep-24-09
 | | Tabanus: <chessgames.com> One more GM and a young IM with duplicate player pages: 1) Sergei Kalugin (FIDE's spelling, 20 games) and Sergey V Kalygin (21 games) should be merged, 2) Erik Blomqvist (correct spelling, 49 games) and Erik Blomquist (13 games) should be merged. By the way, you may have noticed my biography postings. If these become awkward or superfluous or wrong after merging etc. or after a Chessgames Biography is made, you are free to edit or delete. You and the bio writers are also of course welcome to use the info (and check its correctness). |
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| Sep-24-09 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM> Please create a forum for the <2009 Kasparov-Karpov Blitz Match>. http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/kkb...
Thanks |
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Sep-25-09
| | chessgames.com: Great work by Kasparov. Kasparov-Karpov Blitz Match (2009). |
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Sep-25-09
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <nescio: <chessgames.com> You're lucky to be able to stick to English. I read several languages and I am accustomed to see for example the name Yusupov (English) spelled as Youssoupov (French), Jusupov (Italian), Jussupow (German) or Joessoepov (Dutch) :)> Even with English only they still get Ekaterina Jussupow :) But even in such cases of early-age immigrants to Latin alphabet countries things can get really, really hairy. Read for instance the introduction at http://www.lisa-ryzih.de/ (Elizaveta Ryzhikh's homepage)... |
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| Sep-25-09 | | whiteshark: <Switch> Lisa should get her own players page. Ceegee, I'm sure I once lost to her (1.f3 e5 2.g4 Qh4#). :D |
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Sep-26-09
| | Tabanus: <chessgames.com> I found this excellent resource. The pgn's seem to be of good quality: http://al20102007.narod.ru/index.html |
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Sep-26-09
| | chessgames.com: <Tabanus> We were aware of Rusbase but haven't fully taken advantage of it. Plus, after not having seen it for years, it's clear that it's been greatly improved since we first took games from there. Thanks. |
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Sep-26-09
 | | Jimfromprovidence: I did not understand the solution to your newsletter puzzle, below.
click for larger viewAfter 1 Rb8 Qd5+ 2 Kb2 Qxa5, where is the win?
click for larger viewAfter 3 f8q Qxd2+ it looks like a draw.
click for larger view |
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Sep-27-09
| | chessgames.com: <Jimfromprovidence> It's possible that you've busted a century old Troitzky study, but personally I don't see the draw where you say <After 3 f8q Qxd2+ it looks like a draw.> Perhaps you're overlooking that rook on b8--Black can make a few spite checks but I think his fun comes to a quick end. That's just my opinion, not the final word--maybe I'm overlooking some resource that you see. Normally we try to confirm homepage puzzles with computers, but since this was a Troitzky composition we didn't try to confirm it. We should leave this one up to the endgame specialists and computer whizzes. Perhaps the Kibtizer's Cafe would be a good place to analyze it (as we don't have a page for Troitzky who did not play any serious OTB chess). |
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Sep-27-09
| | Jimfromprovidence: <chessgames.com> <It's possible that you've busted a century old Troitzky study, but personally I don't see the draw where you say <After 3 f8q Qxd2+ it looks like a draw.> Perhaps you're overlooking that rook on b8--Black can make a few spite checks but I think his fun comes to a quick end. That's just my opinion, not the final word--maybe I'm overlooking some resource that you see.> No, the black queen can check with impunity along the a5-e1 diagonal. Peace, Jim |
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| Sep-27-09 | | hms123: <Chessgames.com> Why don't I get the newsletters? (I haven't gotten the past two.) The box on my profile has been unchecked. Nothing is in my spam filter. I did get one last year but that was it. thanks. |
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Sep-27-09
| | chessgames.com: < hms123: <Chessgames.com> Why don't I get the newsletters? > It's possible that some overzealous ISP is so sure that it's spam that they prevent you from getting it. We're really not sure. Anyhow, in any case you can always see it online here: http://www.chessgames.com/newslette... |
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