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Jan-01-10
 | | chessgames.com: <did you really intend to make Julen Luis Arizmendi-Martinez Player of the Day for two days in a row, neither of which was his birthday?> No, actually the story is that we have a file we made years ago called "potd.txt" which maps out all of the players of the day, but it only went up to 12-31-2009. We forgot that it was going to run out. No problem, we just had to extend it giving Lionel Adalbert Bagration Felix Kieseritsky his rightful place in the January 1st category. Now we're good through 2012. |
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| Jan-01-10 | | notyetagm: <chessgames.com: ... Now we're good through 2012.> Great, you're set until the world ends. :-) |
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| Jan-02-10 | | Benzol: <chessgames> The latest NZ Champioship is currently underway. More information can be found at http://www.aucklandchesscentre.co.n... |
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| Jan-02-10 | | zarg: <chessgames.com>
Thanks for your reply on the table formatting issue. I am clearly not aware of the backward browser compability issues involved here... and assumed (without checking) that phpBB [code] [/code] blocks was simply formatted in HTML via <PRE>, and that this worked across browsers. At least your poem displayed as intended, on my firefox/Linux... so what is the trick to embed <pre><font face="Andale Mono,Courier New,Courier,Fixed,monospace"> </font></pre> in a post??? |
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Jan-02-10
| | chessgames.com: <zarg> <[i] assumed (without checking) that phpBB [code] [/code] blocks was simply formatted in HTML via <PRE>, and that this worked across browsers.> That's really a good idea; We hadn't thought of looking at PHPBB. Those guys are very cross-platform conscious and whatever solution they found is likely to be a good one. <so what is the trick to embed <pre><font face="Andale Mono,Courier>(etc) in a post???> Sorry, we're not telling--at least not yet. All sorts of questions crop up, like how it will handle links inside the text, whether there will be a limit on the length of lines, etc. When (and if) we are ready to release it as a certified site feature we'll probably assign it some easy mnemonic like table[ ... ] or rawtext[ ... ] or something. But for now, as explained, it's just an experiment. |
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| Jan-03-10 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM> How about a forum for the annual <HASTINGS CHESS CONGRESS>? Thanks
http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/ |
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| Jan-03-10 | | waddayaplay: chessgames, the diagram at http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... is not showing. Regards. |
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| Jan-03-10 | | waddayaplay: another problem , games are not classified as French, Tarrasch (C06) anymore. |
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| Jan-03-10 | | Hesam7: <CG.com> I uploaded a game last night (De Firmian - Irzhanov), there is no rush but I was wondering is there a mechanism that alerts me that my game is in the database? Or do I have to check periodically myself? Also what happened to the Sandbox feature?? |
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| Jan-04-10 | | Benzol: <chessgames> Can please merge these two player files Gavriil N Veresov and Gavriil Veresov Thanks in advance.
:) |
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Jan-04-10
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <chessgames.com> What's up with
C Adams vs Wearing, 1982? Two unrated New Zealand schoolboys - one lacking a given name and both lacking any other games in the DB - for some reason decide to duplicate a famous game (Stein vs Tal, 1961)... and this is not only found worthy of database inclusion, but apparently flagged through the no-similar-games-allowed software! Can't imagine this being just a case of "anything submitted by <Benzol> is in" - I want to hear the story behind this :) |
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Jan-04-10
 | | Stonehenge: <Groningen Chess Festival: Timman vs Kampen> should be Van Kampen |
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| Jan-04-10 | | zarg: <chessgames.com: Sorry, we're not telling--at least not yet.> Arrrgh! Not even a single clue, of course simply trying "table[ ... ] or rawtext[ ... ]" didn't work. :( Would threatening to deploy massive usage of the "Blow the whistle" function, have any softening effect on the current policy? |
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Jan-04-10
| | chessgames.com: <SwitchingQuylthulg> <chessgames.com> <What's up with C Adams vs Wearing, 1982? ... I want to hear the story behind this :)> I wish I could say, but you've stumped us. It's easy to imagine that somebody clowning around submitted a famous game with their own name in it. I can also imagine two friends at some Auckland school prearranging a chess game so that one of them would win it, and using Stein-Tal as a basis for their little conspiracy. But what I can't figure out is how they got around the duplicate-screener. No admin ever gave that game a special "pass" to allow it into the database. It just goes to show how you have to watch data like a hawk lest the old computer maxim "garbage in, garbage out" rules the day. |
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| Jan-04-10 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM> <HASTINGS CHESS CONGRESS> forum, please. Thanks
http://www.hastingschess.org.uk/ |
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| Jan-05-10 | | brankat: <CG.com> The World Team Championship starts today, Jan-05. Are we going to have a page/forum for the event? Thank You. |
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| Jan-05-10 | | Benzol: <chessgames> <SwitchingQuylthulg> I can remember submitting the C Adams vs Wearing, 1982 game some time ago but I was totally unaware of the Tal - Stein game. The Adams - Wearing game originally appeared in an old NZ Chess Magazine. Is it possible that a correction has been made to either game at some stage in the recent past and somehow slightly altered the gamescore of one of them? |
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Jan-05-10
| | chessgames.com: <Is it possible that a correction has been made to either game at some stage in the recent past and somehow slightly altered the gamescore of one of them?> Good thinking--that would do it. Suppose you submitted it with some simple error (Sf6 instead of Nf6) and then later, when it shows up as being faulty, an admin goes in by hand and fixes it. That's one way to sneak around the duplicate screener. It's also funny how a respected chess magazine publishes a Stein-Tal game and attributes it to school children. I imagine the editors of the magazine thinking "Wow, these kids are playing really good chess!" and then deciding to publish the game between "unknowns" as an example of a modern brilliancy at the scholastic level. I think we've uncovered some shenanigans here. Anyhow, in spite of the levity of the situation, this game has to get the axe. <ALSO> There are several chess events starting up either now or in the next few days. Rather than enumerate them let us just say that they will appear on the homepage very soon, don't worry! |
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Jan-05-10
 | | Tabanus: <cg> Two candidates, both start 8 Jan.: 1) http://www.chess-results.com/tnr290...
2) http://www.czechtour.net/prague-ope... |
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Jan-06-10
 | | Domdaniel: <waddayaplay> has mentioned this already, but ECO designation [C06] - the closed line in the French Tarrasch, 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 - seems to be defunct. The most recent C06 game in the database is, I think, Rublevsky vs Navara, 2007 -- have they all stopped playing it, or is it now given a different code? |
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Jan-06-10
| | Domdaniel: Aha. [C06] specifies the line up to move 8. [C05] is more general - that must be where the games are going. |
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Jan-06-10
 | | Phony Benoni: <Dondaniel> Yes, all the games are going to <C05> for some reason. <C06> specifically covers <1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.Bd3 c5 6.c3 Nc6 7.Ne2 cxd4 8.cxd4>. If you plug this into Opening Explorer, you come out here:: Opening Explorer With 1115 games from 1891-2009. There has to be a bug somewhere misclassifying these games. |
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Jan-07-10
 | | WannaBe: Congratulations, two puns were tied for first place, <No Country for Old Men>, and <Hou Wears Short's Shorts>. Kudos! |
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Jan-07-10
 | | alexmagnus: <cg> When will I finally get the prize I won during the Christmas present hunt? It's more than two weeks since then already.... I e-mailed my address etc. back on the day I won. |
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Jan-07-10
| | chessgames.com: <When will I finally get the prize I won during the Christmas present hunt?> Sorry about the delay, but as a winner you deserve to know the situation: The list of winners was sent to the respective sponsors and they are obligated to send them out before January 14th. We would guess they have already sent them out but we're not sure; we can try to confirm that for you. I know that the http:///www.keeneonchess.com/ DVDs have been processed and all of the T-shirts as well, but we haven't gotten the http://www.newinchess.com/ confirmation. Don't worry--NIC is entirely trustworthy. In fact, one year when a prize was reportedly lost in the mail they generously provided a second one with no-questions-asked. |
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