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Sep-23-10
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <chessgames> Seems you've done something about the issue above, but whatever it was, it's not working; lots of erroneous game scores persist. You'll probably have to scrap everything you have and replace with the correct PGNs from http://ugra-chess.com/pgn/wco1.zip (round 1) and http://ugra-chess.com/pgn/wco2.zip (round 2)... |
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| Sep-23-10 | | twinlark: Moreover, although you've disconnected the Le Quang Liem vs Kthetho game link I referred to in my last post here, it's been propagated at Le Quang Liem vs P Khetho, 2010. The linked game is apparently the one between Giancarlo Berardi (San Marino) and Ahmed Adly (Egypt). |
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Sep-24-10
 | | Richard Taylor: <chessgames.com: Wait--is Tanoi a chessgames member? I noticed he did battle with Richard Taylor.> He is the same person - not sure if he is member here. He looks on here from time to time. He and I are good friends have had many games. About an = score. he is of Samoan heritage. He is rapidly improving local player (he is over 2000 but a few years ago was about 1600) and is very very keen on chess. Plays many dynamic games. Regards. |
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Sep-24-10
 | | casaschi: "Maybe a technical issue here: I tried leaving a comment on a game, it the entry box seemed unable to accept input. I discovered that the board interface option "PGN4web" was responsible. Because I tried using "Mychess" and the entry box was fine after that. Thought I should let you know." About this issue with pgn4web... you have two options to fix it: 1) disable the "shortcut keys" using SetShortcutKeysEnabled(false); (but then you cant use arrows to browse the game) or better
2) add this properties to the form textarea:
onFocus="disableShortcutKeysAndStoreStatus();"
onBlur="restoreShortcutKeysStatus();"
Each time the user is typing on the textarea the keys will work as expected. If you have any issue with pgn4web... why dont you email the author? :-) |
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| Sep-24-10 | | Russian Grandmasters: Hello!
This game here loads but the moves are missing- and if you look at the last few posts on this game, I'm not the only one with this problem. Would you please investigate? I've never had a game blocked out like this before in four years on this site Rubinstein vs Capablanca, 1911 |
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| Sep-24-10 | | Russian Grandmasters: <Rapid City Chess>: You wrote-
<<chessgames.com> I have noticed that <notyetagm>'s collections are giving certain Gm's notable games, that aren't really notable at all.
Is there a way to filter this?">
Not only is your post needlessly arrogant and insulting- it also exhibits a lack of basic investigation on your part. <chessgames.com> clearly states on <every single player page> that the "notable games" listing is entirely based on member interest- there is no "objective" standard. Your own <highly subjective> dismissal of <notyetagm's> judgment is high-handed, impertinent, and ill-informed. Please refrain from this style of post in future.
Thanks in advance. |
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| Sep-24-10 | | achieve: <Russian Grandmasters: This game here loads but the moves are missing- and if you look at the last few posts on this game, I'm not the only one with this problem.> Strange... It works hunky dory with me, including "annotations." hmm.. |
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Sep-25-10
 | | chessgames.com: <casaschi> Hi, welcome -- we just gave you a complimentary premium membership. Thank you very much for your technical advice. <Russian Grandmasters: Hello! This game here loads but the moves are missing- and if you look at the last few posts on this game, I'm not the only one with this problem.> We couldn't reproduce the problem, but I tried something. Sometimes comments with nested parentheses cause problems. If the game suddenly works for you, we know that was the issue. |
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Sep-25-10
| | chessgames.com: <notable games, that aren't really notable at all> Russian Grandmasters quoted the appropriate text. "Notable games" is a statistical process. No matter what games users may choose to put in their collections, The Game of the Century will always be notable for Fischer; the Opera House game, for Morphy. |
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Sep-25-10
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <twinlark> OK, now the admins have deleted Le vs. Khetho for the second time but haven't done anything about the dozens of other problematic round 1 games or indeed uploaded the correct Le vs. Khetho game (under their names anyway). Go figure. |
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Sep-25-10
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <chessgames> thanks for that- I'm going to download a few new browsers to see if that works. |
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Sep-25-10
 | | Peligroso Patzer: The gamescore for Jobava vs Carlsen, 2010 currently gives the last move as 64. Ke4, which apparently merely reflects the placement of White's King on e4 at the conclusion of the game to indicate the 1-0 result. According to several posts on the referenced game page, the final move was actually <64. Kg2>. |
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Sep-25-10
| | chessgames.com: <the admins have deleted Le vs. Khetho for the second time but haven't done anything about the dozens of other problematic round 1 games or indeed uploaded the correct Le vs. Khetho game> We are aware of the problems, please bear with us. Mistakes of this scale are not addressed on a game-by-game basis; we have to make mass deletions and mass insertions, once we are confident that our source feed is correct. |
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Sep-25-10
| | chessgames.com: < Jobava vs Carlsen, 2010 ... the final move was actually <64. Kg2>.> Thanks. |
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Sep-26-10
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <chessgames.com: We are aware of the problems, please bear with us. Mistakes of this scale are not addressed on a game-by-game basis; we have to make mass deletions and mass insertions, once we are confident that our source feed is correct.> I understand that perfectly (I even pointed it out...) What I'm wondering is just how you're going to get more confident by waiting. The accurate round 1 PGN already exists (http://ugra-chess.com/pgn/wco1.zip), it's not getting any more accurate with time (unless someone finally notices the top five female matches are missing...) If you're not confident about the official site having things mostly right, you'll never get your good PGN since everybody else has copied from the official site. |
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| Sep-26-10 | | hms123: <chessgames.com>
I have sent an email, but thought it might also help to post here that we have two new <Rinus Award> winners for their contributions to the World Game against WGM Pogonina. thanks. Activate: izimbra
Years: 1
New Count: 10
Activate: Garech
Years: 1
New Count: 9 |
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Sep-26-10
 | | kingscrusher: Chessgames: I wonder if "Traps" would be a good new feature for the Openings section, as well as highlighting Gambits. And maybe Traps relating to Gambits. A lot of amateur plays can get a lot of fun from traps, because I think there are sort of analogous to "cheat codes" in the Sega/Playstation community in a way. It is knowledge which if the opponent falls victim, can mean a quick and easy victory. They also seem to be incredibly popular as a category of videos on Youtube. I noticed from the Opening explorer btw today when researching a bit the famous Blackburne Shilling Trap, that in the Opening explorer, incredibly Ke7 is given only as far as game branches in this line: Opening Explorer This actually favours White potentially - compared to Kd8 which is much stronger. Anyway, the point is, perhaps a special coverage of classic Traps might be interesting, and perhaps bringing relevant stem games to bear would be great for a lot of players. I'm currently doing a video series on Traps, and I will be covering the Blackburn Shilling Trap soon I think. |
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| Sep-26-10 | | Mrs. Alekhine: I'd like to second <kingscrusher's> suggestion to inaugurate a "Traps Feature" at our website. I hope such an idea is technically feasible- if it is, I'd love to see it. Best regards,
JFQ |
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| Sep-26-10 | | Mrs. Alekhine: Just one more thing and I hope this is OK to post in here- It's meant to serve as more support for <KC's> idea: This is a recent video by <kingscrusher> on the "Elephant Trap"- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeaP...
Look how many people have watched this video-
In addition, in defence of this particular trap, even if white *doesn't* go for the bait, Black is still fine positionally. |
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| Sep-26-10 | | rapidcitychess: <Russian Grandmasters><CG.com> Ok, I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to be arrogant or anything. |
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| Sep-26-10 | | Mrs. Alekhine: It's no worries <rapidcitychess>, it's just that some people get sensitive about their judgments being called in to question by fellow members. One of the main reasons <CG.com> doesn't try to create, or enforce, an "objective standard" for <notable games>- I presume- is that "notable" is a wide open concept. A game could be "notable" because it won someone the World Championship. Or because it matched Rybka 3 almost perfectly. Or because it featured wild and daring sacs. Or because it featured an interesting tactical sequence. Ad infinitum.
<notyetagm> has spent years archiving and collating games that feature <INSTRUCTIVE TACTICAL LESSONS> as he likes to write them- and he deserves all of our respect, IMNSHO. |
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| Sep-26-10 | | crazybird: <chessgames>
Can you update the profile photo of GM Anish Giri
. He's no longer a 13-yr old.
How about using this one from Bundesliga?
http://www.schachbundesliga.de/open... Or from the French league?
http://www.chessvibes.com/plaatjes/... |
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Sep-27-10
| | chessgames.com: <SwitchingQuylthulg: What I'm wondering is just how you're going to get more confident by waiting. The accurate round 1 PGN already exists> I can see how that sounds confusing, let me explain: We have software that automatically imports data every several times a day. Sometimes it tries to get the games from the official site, but for some events like the Olympiad we prefer to get the PGN from an indirect source, in this case from The Week in Chess (http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic.html). We prefer TWIC over the "real thing" because their version of the PGN is tends to be much more refined, especially when it comes to normalized name spellings, dates, and details like that. An import nuance to understand is that this software does not recognize what round we are on; it doesn't say "OK, this should be round 9, where are the round 9 games?" It simply takes a gigantic file of PGN and says "OK, which games in here aren't already in the database?" Usually these are the games from the most recent round, but not necessarily--if some game from round 1 suddenly became available at the end of the event, it would grab that too. So: if TWIC currently has bad game scores for the early rounds of the Olympiad, and at the same time we embarked on a project to delete the bad games and import from the official site, eventually our import software would identify the erroneous TWIC games we deleted as "new" and end up inserting them all over again. We'd end up with duplicates like crazy (both the wrong scores and the right ones side by side). Now if TWIC was an unreliable source--if we weren't sure that they would fix this problem in a timely manner or perhaps not at all--then I agree we should go elsewhere. But Mark Crowther is immaculate and his fans are quick to alert him to problems. If he hasn't fixed round 1 already I'm sure he'll get to it it soon. When that happens it's just a matter of deleting the aberrant games and then our automatic import script will take care of the rest. So in short, if we simply wait, this problem is 99% likely to take care of itself and probably within a day or two. If we try too hard to fix it ASAP we could end up with an even bigger mess on our hands. |
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Sep-27-10
| | chessgames.com: <kingscrusher> Your idea is a good one and in some ways related to a project we've been kicking around to locate TNs by performing massive computer analysis on the positions in the Opening Explorer. The entire idea of "spidering" the Opening Explorer to make discoveries in specific positions is very exciting; it would make the Opening Explorer far more than just a fancy way to present the game data. Heck, it could even make some genuine contributions to opening theory. More on this subject later. |
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Sep-27-10
| | chessgames.com: <hms123: Activate: izimbra ... Activate: Garech> Got it and congratulations to them both, and many thanks to those who donated to the Rinus fund. |
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