Aeroflot Open (2011) is now on the homepage, and bets are available at the ChessBookie game.

We processed a number of PGN submissions, if we didn't get to yours just wait, we'll come to them soon.

We informed Lennonfan that harassing other members is specifically against our rules, rule <#3 No personal attacks against other users.> To threaten to post private information about another member certainly is the very definition of a "personal attack".

Phasellus congue. Suspendisse potenti. Quisque sagittis. Morbi nonummy nibh in risus. Morbi pretium pulvinar odio. Nulla mi. In vitae nulla. Aliquam nonummy.

Some people who enter the zone are not able to see this rule. So be it, <CG> has found them not worthy.

<Phasellus congue> = Way back in the days when the Conga was sung,

<Suspendisse potenti> = An act was committed which got a man hung.

<Quisque sagittis Morbi nonummy nibh in risus> = A crispy old sage met his fate in the Ruy,

<Morbi pretium pulvinar odio Nulla mi> = An odius death, not a sweet pretty joy.

<In vitae nulla Aliquam nonummy> = He gave up his game beyond hope of a fix, to play the Exchange with four bishop c6.

Your contention that you are innocent because <never even addressed either of them till they attacked me> is spurious. If they indeed attacked you, then feel free to report them using the Blow the Whistle feature and the offending posts will be reviewed by administrators.

Your argument that <And the personal info i was to post...is very true and can be proved,and is not a personal attack,just a fact> may hold up in court, but not here. We are not a blog and you are not free to post about absolutely any subject you please. Specifically, you cannot engage in personal attacks against other members.

We found a significant bug that prevented a great number of tournaments from being correctly identified. After running it, we catalogued thousands of games into mostly RAPID and BLITZ designations. We are now going to go through the correction logs and look for other problems.

With this interface I see no way the Playing Zone will ever be a success. It neatly combines all the possible drawbacks and disadvantages an interface designer could ever dream of avoiding.

It's ugly. It looks totally unlike anything else at CG.com, and very decidedly not in a good way. People used to all the other stuff on CG.com will find it uncomfortable. People used to any playing interface on any other playing site will also find it uncomfortable. I kept making stupid mistakes just because my eyes were hurting so badly. I was praying for the games to end because playing was just so painful.

You have to squint to see the clocks. Anyone who ever made a successful chess web interface knows the clocks have to be way more prominent than that. You have to squint to see <anything>; even the board itself is tiny, compared to what there's potentially room for. Lots of room is dedicated to stuff unrelated to the game itself in any possible way. In short, I found no way to enjoy the experience, even in games I still somehow managed to win.

Still, nothing wrong with a whiff of sulfur. I suppose.

<TechnicalDraw> The stuff that looks like Latin (but isn't) is called <Lorem Ipsum>: printers used it as dummy text to fill space for centuries, to be replaced by real text when the writer finally got the writing done. It has survived and found new life on the web: http://www.lipsum.com/

Quang Liem Le beat Kamsky and Jakovenko drew Kobalia in 17 moves.

<cg.com> - if you have a little time now? :)

I've been thinking about a feature that might be very valuable, given how often people ask about the correct pronunciations of player names (Euwe and Alekhine, for example). I see a lot of sites, mainly online dictionaries (such as http://dictionary.com), have audio files on their pages, activated with a little loudspeaker icon. Do you think you could include something like that in the player pages?

Yes, I know that would be an incredible amount of work if you had to provide the pronunciations yourselves - but that's not what I'd like to suggest. :) You were talking about having more user involvement in correcting and confirming player names eventually - I'm thinking to add the audio project as a part of that. Native speakers of the player's nationality could help out the community by uploading a correctly pronounced audio file of the player's name.

Sorta like that page in technical manuals:

you will have noted that last year I collected biographical information (including links to tournament results (mostly chess-results.com) and pictures) on hundreds of players, and posted these on the player pages. Subsequently many bio writers took from this information and placed it in the bio section.

However, gradually I got the feeling (somehow) that this work was unwanted. Yet I wanted to continue it in some form. I therefore sent you the following mail on 28 August 2010:

<Dear Chessgames,

I hereby apply for permission to write biographies. I only intend to correct typographical errors etc. in bios already written, and maybe to add some basic info here and there.

Else I hope you are satisfied with the work I'm doing. Please notify me if you have suggestions of how I can improve.

Best wishes and thanks for your site.>

I would very much like to have an honest answer to this mail. The lack of it, and my dicontent with the slow pace by which you are correcting (and adding) games and player infos (incl. duplicates) are the main reasons why I am no longer a premium menber.

It is also my honest opinion that you should monitor the site more, by e. g. deleting the most silly and childish posts etc. (especially on the player pages, more respect!) and not make it so entirely Wikipedish.

Perhaps all this tediousness is beyond your capacity, but maybe its time soon to relocate resources to it from the technical staff? IMO your otherwise excellent site has a great potential also outside USA.

A word from you and I may become a premium member again.

I formally apologise to be so late to say:
<Tabanus> and <GrahamClayton> both of you did a superb job in 2010!

Their digging and posting on the Player Pages has not gone unnoticed- their work has been invaluable to my project to make chess history videos.

Regarding some of the many photos <tab> and <Graham> have posted on the player pages- I'm not sure on the details but I think CG.com needs to know a given photo is in the public domain or not before they can add the photo on to the Player Page?

At any rate, I also enthusiastically support the idea of adding <tabanus> to the list of "biography editors" on the playing pages, to add to <benzol>, <twinlark>, <phony benoni>.

More trusted experts are needed to keep the player pages accurate and up to date.

I also strongly second <tabanus'> idea to clean the OFF TOPIC childishness off the Player Pages and especially the games pages.

I urge all members to help the administrators by blowing the whistle on off-topic nonsense on the Player/Game pages.

If you see it, blow the whistle and help keep the pages clean of nonsense.

I respectfully disagree, only because I believe that legitimate content will be scrubbed away by someone's zealous intent to get rid of all the ugly.

I don't see a problem with removing "Only the nonsense"-

More, I don't see any problem in identifying this category of post.

It's not difficult for the Administrators to determine if a post is totally off topic in a way that is damaging to the player/game page.

At any rate, you missed my point- almost entirely, it seems-

I suggested using the "blow the whistle" function to alert the admins. The final decision will be up to them- not up to me, you, or the person who blew the whistle.

The admins actually ENCOURAGE us to use the blow the whistle function when we think it necessary.

"legitimate content" will not be "scrubbed away," because it is the ADMINISTRATORS who decide- who have always decided- what is "legitimate content."