Many thanks <CG.com> for having a special week set aside for Grandmaster Bent Larsen

I first met him at the Piatigorsky Cup in 1966. Then after that he came up for a visit to perform a special 'Clock Simul' and 'Simul Exhibition' (which also featured a wonderful lecture where he showed us his brilliant victory against Petrosian [ Larsen vs Petrosian, 1966 ]). All this took place at the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club (MICC for short) on August 19th & 20th. Then in later years, I was to meet him once again at the "Lone Pine Chess Tournaments" in 1978 (which he won!) and 1979 (where he placed in a 6-way tie for 5th-10th).

Hence, I've posted a tribute with many personal recollections on my chessforum (in a triple post which now includes a follow-up) which talks about my first-hand experiences with the Great Dane! :XD

It starts off with < First and foremost this is a true story about the wonderful times spent with Grandmaster Bent Larsen > and proceeds from there with many more anecdotes and stories (posted Sep-13-10).

Everyone is welcome to drop bye and take a look. :)

In addition, wanted to 'thank you' profusely for increasing the kilobytes available in our premium Profiles. :) First noticed this on August 28th and duly posted a note of appreciation in the <~Special Thanks~> section of my Profile. Pretty much made use of this luxury immediately. <*grin*>

Thanks once again <chessgames.com> ! :D

All the Best, - Mal

Still not working.

Here is a concrete example:

It is a week you are celebrating Larsen.

Larsen beat Fischer in the 1970-71 Portoroz Interzonal.

I have always found these Interzonal crosstables very impressive.

I don't know if you can strike a deal with this website - they have many key historic crosstables - here is the relevant one for my example:

http://www.worldchesslinks.net/ezdm...

They have tonnes of such crosstables.

You can see this game:

Fischer vs Larsen, 1970

which is on Larsen's notable game list section. But the crosstable link would be awesome to include somehow I think.

It was Fischer's only loss in this Interzonal.

I am playing the world vs GMP, and accessing the game page either from a Windows 7 notebook and an iPhone, using the same login on both systems.

Yesterday I made a vote for move 9 from the notebook. When I come back to the game page from the iPhone, my vote was not registered. So I voted again, expecting just to update the status, but I was surprised that the number of votes increased by one again. Of course it could be only a coincidence, but beter safe than sorry, so here I am.

Does it make any sense for you?

<Hugin et al> After some talk we decided that it wasn't proper for the admin to remove you from the team yesterday. As a general policy players are not allowed to join the team and then leave. However since we honored your request we won't go back on that, but just so others know, we will deny future requests of that nature. The only exception is if a rule violation has occurred, e.g. sock puppet registration.

<NakoSonorense: <cg.com>: How are those applications for mobile devices coming along? I mostly follow the kibitzing, but it takes forever to adjust the zoom to make the text readable. An app that makes it easy to do this would be great!>

Sorry, we weren't ignoring you, it's just that it's a very complicated subject that is difficult to talk about briefly.

Honestly we don't know beans about how to make applications for Blackberries, iPhones, etc., but we do know exactly how to make our website detect a mobile device. So our plan is generally to improve the presentation of pages for mobile users, giving them a special version of Chessgames customized to their device. Our #1 project in that realm is a chess puzzle application that would be full-screen for mobile users, or be a tiny pop-up window for web users, but work exactly the same way.

Thanks aren't needed; it's both our pleasure and privilege to be able to offer such tributes.

<I first met him at the Piatigorsky Cup in 1966. Then after that he came up for a visit to perform a special 'Clock Simul' and 'Simul Exhibition' (which also featured a wonderful lecture where he showed us his brilliant victory against Petrosian [ Larsen vs Petrosian, 1966 ]). All this took place at the Mechanics' Institute Chess Club (MICC for short) on August 19th & 20th. Then in later years, I was to meet him once again at the "Lone Pine Chess Tournaments" in 1978 (which he won!) and 1979 (where he placed in a 6-way tie for 5th-10th).>

Wow, that's an incredible story.

<Hence, I've posted a tribute with many personal recollections on my chessforum (in a triple post which now includes a follow-up) which talks about my first-hand experiences with the Great Dane! :XD>

That's really wonderful. Chessgames encourage everybody to visit the malthrope chessforum this week.

<<iPhone users> Once we get the bugs out of the iPad version we are going to make a smaller version of the same program to support iPhone users. For now, iPhones don't work, but hang on--it's coming next.

<Blackberry users> Once that works the next step will be to offer Blackberry support. We also plan on making some "mini apps" that will wokr in the small Blackberry window, while being available to web users in the form of a tiny pop-up window. One such app will be a "random chess puzzle" game.>

<Stonehenge: <CG> Aren't we allowed to upload draws anymore? For example: Catharina Roodzant. You've uploaded 14 games but the draws I uploaded are nowhere to be seen.>

Of course you can upload draws; but there is a common PGN error that you fell victim to. For example here a header to one of your rejected games:

[Event "Buenos Aires qual"]
[Site "Buenos Aires"]
[Date "1970.06.15"]
[Round "1"]
[Result "1/2"]
[White "Eliskases, Erich"]
[Black "Hualpa Acevedo, Eduardo"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]

The only problem here is that the <Result "1/2"> is improper; it should read <Result "1/2-1/2">. I think Chessbase and maybe some other software likes to produce games with this "1/2" abbreviation, even though it's utterly nonstandard. And so our software happily gobbles up all of the 1-0 and 0-1 games but when it sees a game like the one above it tosses it aside as "invalid game result".

I don't think I've posted here more than once since becoming a member, if that.

Anyway, I know your "to do" list is long, and my issue is a minor one.

But on Koltanowski's bio there is no mention of the fact that he was Dean of American Chess for some time.