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| Oct-06-09 | | pulsar: <If instead you play through the variation in the Opening Explorer you are guaranteed to find all games, including transpositions.> Enlightening. Thanks <CG>! |
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Oct-06-09
 | | chessgames.com: Here's the US Women's Championship - US Women's Chess Championship (2009). <Bratek: Chessgames:you merged Marx Gyorgy Memorial men and Marx Gyorgy Memorial women into one tournament.> Terribly sorry, we fixed it now. |
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| Oct-06-09 | | whiteshark: <chessgames.com> Do you have an idea why you could see the last post only after switching back two pages here? Corus (2007) |
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Oct-06-09
 | | Tabanus: The "XX Internationales Gocher Open" with about 15 players rated above 2200 is now finished. Pgn's, incl. also for the years 2004-2008, are here: http://www.gocher-open.de/Downloads... |
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| Oct-07-09 | | nescio: Yesterday I asked the following question on the Pearl Spring page, but nobody responded. Perhaps nobody knows. I repeat it here before it gets snowed under and I can't find it back: "BTW, on the live game page immediately under the board where there used to be most recent kibitz I saw only Pogonina's comments and not those of the others. Why?" Much as I like Natalia Andreyevna, she won't be the only one who has interesting remarks, will she? |
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| Oct-07-09 | | crawfb5: <"BTW, on the live game page immediately under the board where there used to be most recent kibitz I saw only Pogonina's comments and not those of the others. Why?"> I believe this change was made at the request of some users who didn't want to see the GM's comments during other events buried too quickly under other kibitzes, especially in games with more live traffic. Here in the eastern US, Pearl Springs starts at 0300H, which is good only for the insomniacs among us, which has probably helped keep the volume of live comments down. |
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| Oct-07-09 | | nescio: <crawfb5> OK. Thanks. |
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Oct-07-09
| | chessgames.com: <Tabanus> Thanks. By the way we haven't forgotten about your recent list of mergeable player records. <whiteshark> I'm not sure what you mean. Is this something that happened once or can you walk us through it? <nescio> crawfb5 explained it very well. Incidentally, a small tip: if you go to your Chessgames Preferences Page and choose <Display newest kibitzes on top> you'll see the new posts near the top of your screen anyhow. If your monitor is big enough, that means you can read the latest posts without scrolling. |
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| Oct-07-09 | | dakgootje: What I think whiteshark is on about is that when you go to Corus 2007 you enter at kibitzing page 367 of 367. Presumably due to deleted posts (worth of 2 pages) you actually have to go to page 365 to see the last-made post. As of now 'There is no kibitzing for this page, yet.' for page 366 and 367. Either that, or it's some obscure memorium for the approximation of days in one year :) |
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| Oct-07-09 | | whiteshark: <dakgootje>'s 1st paragraph describes it very good. <Is this something that happened once?> At least to me. |
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Oct-08-09
| | chessgames.com: <whiteshark> OK, we see the problem now. Honestly I'm not sure what's going on there, but thanks for reporting it. <benjinathan: This has to be worth a puzzle ... > Thanks, we'll delete your original post for the sake of suspense. |
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Oct-09-09
| | Tabanus: <cg> After three (!) hours of surfing I conclude that Tibor Karolyi (12 games), Tibor Karolyi Jr. (81 games) and Tibor Karolyi Sr. (8 games) are one player, and should be merged. |
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| Oct-10-09 | | netlava: I have sidebar advertisements turned off, but I still see advertisements on the left bar, underneath the opening of the day box. |
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Oct-11-09
| | chessgames.com: <Tabanus> <After three (!) hours of surfing I conclude that
Tibor Karolyi (12 games), Tibor Karolyi Jr. (81 games) and Tibor Karolyi Sr. (8 games) are one player, and should be merged.> Not to put down your hard work, but... are you sure about that? I thought that Karolyi Senior and Karolyi Junior were a famous father-and-son team! Obviously the games that read simply "Karolyi" need to either go to one player record or the other, but I find it hard to believe that we should merge the son's games into his father's. If anybody can weigh in on this subject we'd appreciate it. I think Honza Cervenka might have been familiar with the Karolyis. |
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Oct-11-09
| | Tabanus: <chessgames> I'm only 99% sure. 1) FIDE lists only one Tibor Karolyi, and 2) I actively searched the web with the sole purpose to find a father and son, but no luck. To be 100% sure we'd need a Hungarian, or maybe Honza. |
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Oct-11-09
| | Tabanus: Hmm, I'm probably wrong here :(
There seems to be a Tibor Karolyi born 28 February 1931. If he has died in recent years he would not be listed now by FIDE. Possibly then Tibor Karolyi and Tibor Karolyi Jr. can be merged, leaving Tibor Karolyi Sr. as the father. But they may be mixed anyway - perhaps especially in the period 1985-1990. |
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Oct-11-09
| | Tabanus: From here, [unknown player] it seems the last rating change of Karolyi Sr. was 1989-1990. Sorry about that! |
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| Oct-12-09 | | Benzol: Jeremy Gaige has Tibor Karolyi Sr born 28th August 1931 and Tibor Karolyi Jr born 15th November 1961. |
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| Oct-13-09 | | amadeus: European Team Championship - http://www.eurons2009.com/eng.htm |
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Oct-13-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: Excuse me- I wish to lodge a complaint about the <Magnus Carlsen> thread with regard to inveterate off-topic posting. Remember how bad the <Fischer page> was until I opened a second forum for <My 61 games> discussion, which was subsequently take over by another member? In my opinion a very similar incident has been happening on the <Carlsen page> for years in fact. I am speaking specifically of very long and TOTALLY OFF TOPIC discussions of <chess ratings theory>. There are in fact hundreds upon hundreds of pages and thousands of posts on this precise topic that have NOTHING WHATSOEVER TO DO WITH MAGNUS CARLSEN. I am sick and tired of visiting this page and seeing so much of this off-topic activity. If some regulars on the thread- such as <frogbert>, who is an expert in ratings theory- wish to pursue such a discussion, which I concede is a more than worthy topic- Why can't they open a separate forum for this purpose? Just as we- <JFQ, Chancho, Pinned Piece, Riverbeast>= managed to "recover" the Fischer page from the <My 61 Memorable games> "discussion." And finally- in that case, at least the <61 games> discussion had something to do with Bobby Fischer. NOT SO with regard to the <ratings theory discussion> on the Carslen page. I'd really like some feedback on this topic- I'm far from the only person at this website who wants this discussion moved off of the Carslen page. I'd like to see some consistency in terms of the Administration's monitoring of off topic posts on the Carlsen page. If not, I'd really like to know why, in a detailed explanation. Thank you. |
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Oct-14-09
| | chessgames.com: <jessicafischerqueen> About the <TOTALLY OFF TOPIC discussions of <chess ratings theory>> - The admins here have combatted off-topic banter on many player's pages for many years. Bobby Fischer's page was the original hot-spot for off-topic debates about ratings long before the 61MG issue dominated the pages. Kasparov's page was not immune either. We agree with you that today, it is certainly Carlsen's page where these ratings debates are to be found. However, that's just a sign of the times; it's not because we're treating Carlsen's page any differently. We avoid intervening when sincere and well intentioned members stray off topic. Off topic discission is natural human behavior. However, if somebody is trying to hijack a page with off-topic discussion, all members are free to report it using the "Whistle Function". If enough people complain in unison, we'll do something about it. |
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Oct-14-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Chessgames>:
Thanks for taking my post seriously, and for giving me such a detailed answer. I understand completely, and will follow your suggestions in this matter. JFQ |
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| Oct-14-09 | | twinlark: Strikes me that the Arpad Elo page is a natural place for detailed ELO rating discussions. |
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| Oct-14-09 | | zarg: <jfq>
Problem is, that this discussion wasn't off-topic. Lots of people has been interested in Carlsen's 3002 TPR at Pearl Spring in a historical context, and discussing Sonas articlehttp://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail...
is far more topical, than the current attacks by the topicality police. They should know <See something which violates our rules? Blow the whistle and inform an administrator> instead they too spam the Carlsen page, if discussing * 3000+ TPR
* 2800+ LIVE rating
* 2851+ Carlsen's rating goal
is so terrible, why not post a few "on-topic" post? |
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Oct-14-09
| | chessgames.com: We wholly advocate the use of the Arpad Elo page for discussions of rating, rating inflation, performance ratings, mathematics behind ratings, live ratings, and so forth. One thing is for sure: we'll never remove discussions about chess ratings from that page for being off-topic. However all we can do is make the suggestion--we can't force people to post there. |
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