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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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Dec-09-09		rogge: <cg.com> Mysteriously, Carlsen's bio now states he's Swedish :) Please change it to Danish...

Dec-09-09		chessgames.com: FYI: During some late-night debugging there was a momentary bug in which everybody was transformed into the Chessgames account user. It was like that for perhaps 5-10 minutes. Some admin panels even opened up for regular members. We're going over the logfiles now and to our pleasure it seems everybody was quite mature and did not disturb anything (vandalize pages, etc.). There were a few hijinks on the live game page but no damage done. Thanks for your patience, your maturity, and rest assured this won't be happening again.

Dec-09-09		chessgames.com: <Mysteriously, Carlsen's bio now states he's Swedish :)> Ugh, I spoke too soon. As if we don't have enough to do...

Dec-09-09		rogge: It's fixed...

Dec-09-09		Stonehenge: <chessgames.com: I've got the avatar don't I?> Oh avatar eh, very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers -- by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress-- (courtesy of Monty Python) :)

Dec-09-09		chessgames.com: The problem was traced down to a typo. An equal sign "=" should have been written as "==". These modern computers, sometimes they are so naughty I could just pinch them.

Dec-09-09		pulsar: <CG> It was fun while it lasted. I wouldn't be whipped for some irreverent comments a while ago, would I? :) I'm back to my old serious self...

Dec-09-09		malthrope: <CG.com> just to let you know as soon as I realized that there was something very "strange" going on I deleted my original post (where you're credited as the poster) made on the <ChessBookie>'s forum page. Then reposted with a belated PS added explaining the procedure that I followed to correct it! ;) Hope that's OK. :) Hope all is well now and wishing you and the entire staff a very <Happy Holiday's> :D Best Always, - Mal PS: <"SNAFU"> - once again takes on a brand new meaning! ~lol~

Dec-09-09		zanshin: <chessgames.com: The problem was traced down to a typo. An equal sign "=" should have been written as "==". These modern computers, sometimes they are so naughty I could just pinch them.> Equality test instead of assignment operator .. same problem for C programmers. Maybe they should come up with smarter compilers ;-)

Dec-09-09		firebyrd: <An equal sign "=" should have been written as "=="> A good habit is writing your tests <if (0 == var)> rather than <if (var == 0)>, whenever possible, to let the compiler catch it.

Dec-09-09		Domdaniel: You mean I had infinite power and I slept thru it? Aaaaaargh.

Dec-09-09		zanshin: <firebyrd: A good habit is writing your tests <if (0 == var)> rather than <if (var == 0)>, whenever possible, to let the compiler catch it.> <firebyrd> Does this work in C? Wish I had known that a few years ago - would have saved many hours debugging.

Dec-09-09		waddayaplay: <chessgames.com> Thanks for the explanation <zanshin> Thanks for reading the post and taking the time to correct me, I do appreciate learning things :)

Dec-09-09		zarg: <zanshin: <firebyrd> Does this work in C?> Yes it does, rvalue = lvalue is a constraint violation. However, there is even a simpler method, just turn compiler in conforming mode and set warning level to max.

Dec-09-09		chessgames.com: We eat, breathe, and live computer programming as much as any of you, but unless it's specifically related to Chessgames this talk is better off on the Computer page.

Dec-09-09		Eyal: <CG> The London tournament uses the 3 points for a win scoring system (http://www.londonchessclassic.com/c...). Also, just to remind you that the Naiditsch-Svidler game from round 3.2 of the World Cup is still missing from the database.

Dec-09-09		whatthefat: <chessgames.com> I just tried a search in the Endgame Explorer for ♖♙♙ vs. ♖ with result=draw. The first couple of pages are fine (all draws), but then after that, most of the listed games are decisive. Worse still, if I now go back to one of the first two pages, those games are decisive too!

Dec-09-09		Phony Benoni: Just tried <whatthefat>'s search. RPP vs. R with a drawn result gives 444 games, When you go to a certain place in the list or try going backwards, it switches to a list of 2,199 games, which corresponds to RPP vs. R with all results.

Dec-09-09		chessgames.com: <Eyal: <CG> The London tournament uses the 3 points for a win scoring system> Oh does it really? Thanks, we have support for that but we didn't know they used that method. <Endgame Explorer Bug> That sounds very strange, we'll look into it.

Dec-09-09		Phony Benoni: <chessgames.com> Tried it with a few other endings: BPPP vs. BPP and RPP vs. RP, with drawn results. Same phenomenon: after a certain point, the list switches to endings with all results.

Dec-09-09		whatthefat: <Phony Benoni> Thanks for confirming I'm not crazy. :)

Dec-09-09		chessgames.com: We've often had problems with search terms being lost when using the forward and backward buttons (it's tricky business to make sure that everything is preserved), but this talk about it only malfunctioning "beyond a certain point" sounds nutty. Unfortunately we've no time to look into it at the moment, with the contest starting shortly. But thanks for pointing it out in any case. Oh by the way, here's Naiditsch vs Svidler, 2009.

Dec-10-09		pulsar: Eight years and counting...Congratulations <CG>!

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Dec-10-09		Red October: and <SwitchingQuylthulg> already solved the first one...geez....

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