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May-19-11
 | | chessgames.com: <Android Users> We recently attempted to add support for the Android mobile platform. Are there any Android users out there who can tell us if it's working? By "support" we simply mean that you should be able to view games. It does this by using the mobile-friendly web4pgn viewer regardless of what your viewer preferences are set to. |
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| May-19-11 | | rogge: <chessgames.com>, thanks. Viewing games on Andriod works great. |
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| May-19-11 | | shivasuri4: <chessgames.com>,the Ivanchuk-Bruzon game's(Capablanca Memorial) mystery has been apparently solved.It's supposedly a 99 move win.Please refer <BUNA>'s post on the game page and have the rest of the game completed. |
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May-19-11
| | chessgames.com: We're glad to hear that. We decided to delete the erroneous score and reinsert it: Ivanchuk vs L Bruzon, 2011. |
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May-19-11
 | | Stonehenge: <CG> Can you please remove <Current FIDE rating> from players who are already dead? It looks quite ugly, IMHO. Maybe even painful for relatives. And I also asked you something on May 13th, but please forget it if you are too busy. It's not important. |
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May-19-11
| | chessgames.com: Hi Stonehenge — you are right, that should read more properly "most recent published FIDE rating" or words to that effect. We'll fix that. About that star next to player names, it is somewhat abstruse: it means that an admin flipped a switch on the player to indicate that they have some measure of importance, even though the number of games and/or rating would not indicate much importance. Captain Evans is a good example of a player that we would flip the switch on. The switch is used for a few miscellaneous computations, e.g. a player won't get their own zip-file for the archive without that flag, and EZ Search uses it sometimes to make guesses. It's not particularly important. |
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May-20-11
| | Stonehenge: Thanks for your answer. But woudn't it be easier to put the player with the most games on top of the list. Of course I'm talking of lists of players with the same christian name. Take this for example:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Here <GM> Kotov, with 650 games, comes second to FM Kotov, with only 4 games. Isn't that just plain ugly? |
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May-20-11
 | | OhioChessFan: They have to be sorted somehow. It is reasonable to sort by ELO. I'm much more likely to be interested in a 2500 with 11 games than an 1800 with 12 games. |
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May-20-11
| | Stonehenge: Yes but how many times is that going to happen? In general the strongest player has the most games. If not, then it's just a matter of uploading more games by the strongest player. That wouldn't hurt the database anyway. |
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May-20-11
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <chessgames.com: About that star next to player names, it is somewhat abstruse: it means that an admin flipped a switch on the player to indicate that they have some measure of importance, even though the number of games and/or rating would not indicate much importance.> Good thing those stars are there, or we'd never guess that Alberto Sanchez was a notable player. |
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May-20-11
 | | WannaBe: Any day now, I will get a star next to my name, just like when I was 8 years old in school!! =) |
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May-20-11
| | OhioChessFan: I found it! http://www.eslpod.com/eslpod_blog/w... |
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May-20-11
| | Stonehenge: Here the bio says he died in 2011 but I can't find anything:
Frans Cornelis. Here it said he died in 2005 but afaik he's still alive:
Sergey Arkhipov. (Interview from 2006: http://www.russiachess.org/content/...). I don't think this is funny. |
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May-20-11
| | chessgames.com: Stonehenge, about Cornelis, I fear that it's true. We received an email <Unfortunately I have to inform you also that Frans Cornelis
Frans Cornelis died 2 days ago on 09 Mai 2011.> and then edited the biography ourselves. Arkhipov on the other hand, are you saying that biography was updated to say that he died in 2005? And I presume you switched it back? Thank you, I will find out who did that and alert them to their error. Unless I learn differently I will assume that it was a case of sloppy research and not malicious. Thank you for pointing this out. |
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May-21-11
| | Stonehenge: Yes indeed, it said he died in 2005 and I switched it back. Probably just a mistake. It happens, I make them too. |
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May-21-11
| | chessgames.com: <But woudn't it be easier to put the player with the most games on top of the list.> Easier yes, but not better. <Take this for example: ... Here <GM> Kotov, with 650 games, comes second to FM Kotov, with only 4 games. Isn't that just plain ugly?> Yes, it is ugly, but I think the problem is not the star system, but that some stars have been handed out to irrelevant players. Take away FM Kotov's star and the problem goes away. By way of comparison, consider this:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Now we see Captain Evans at the top of the list, even above Larry Evans. I think that's very elegant. If we sorted by number of games our mighty captain would be in between Bill Evans (2240) and P Evans (2098). |
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May-22-11
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <chessgames.com> Wouldn't it at least make sense to sort players with no ratings or importance indicators by number of games, rather than essentially randomly? |
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May-22-11
| | WannaBe: <SwitchingQuylthulg> That might be a 'problem' with a certain member here, that have a certain number of games in the database here... |
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May-22-11
 | | Eggman: Chessgames.com:
I wonder what you would think about creating pages for certain issues that are the subject of ongoing debate, such as GM draws. This thread in particular has been carried out on countless separate pages, and is hard to keep track of. I think the debate is very important, and the comments made at this very site have even been quoted in at least one book that I know of, by GM Keene. There might be some chance of making some progress in the debate (as opposed to rehashing the same tired old points) if a single page were the focus of the debate, and anyone in the world who wanted to get a handle on the debate would be able to visit this page. |
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| May-22-11 | | Open Defence: that debate can be moved to the <technical draw> forum for a fee of $20 |
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| May-26-11 | | cro777: By winning his last game Marjan Semrl (Slovenia) has become the 24th Correspondance Chess World Champion, ahead of Dr Hans-Dieter Wunderlich and Dr Tansel Turgut (<chesscard>). Congratulations! |
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May-26-11
 | | kingscrusher: Hi Chessgames.com
This is really a point of trivia, and not so much a concrete suggestion because it would probably need some ingenious programming to achieve. My current video interest area is Tal vs Fischer games, and I noticed from this page: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... That the blitz encounters were included. Perhaps this is just a little unfair to Tal?! Should Blitz be included in that sort of comparitive match record?! Also I am wondering if somehow an indication can be given of "Peak years", and maybe a warning if both players never really met in their "Peak years". Maybe a seperate specific stats comparison if two players did actually meet in their peak years. In the Tal vs Fischer example, they didn't really meet in their peak years, as Fischer lost to Tal 4-0 when he was just 16 and not quite super-GM. Best wishes
K |
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May-26-11
| | chessgames.com: Kingscrusher:
The page you showed is the result of using the advanced search feature on the homepage. The big difference between the advanced search and other search features is that the advanced search looks up players by substrings on their name. That can be both powerful and confusing. There is no guarantee you get a single person, e.g. if you look up "Lasker" you'll see both Emanuel and Edward's games intermingled. This means that had Tal Shaked played Julie Fischer at some point, it would show up in your search as well. That's why the software makes no attempt to divide the games into categories of blitz, exhibition, etc—since we are talking about (hypothetically) a dozen different people, that wouldn't make sense. However there is a type of search that will focus on two specific players to the exclusion of all others: The E-Z Search at the top of the homepage. Do the search up there and you'll get this list: search "Tal vs Fischer" <Classical games: Mikhail Tal beat Robert James Fischer 4 to 2, with 5 draws.Including rapid/exhibition games: Mikhail Tal tied Robert James Fischer 4 to 4, with 5 draws. Only rapid/exhibition games: Robert James Fischer beat Mikhail Tal 2 to 0.> I believe that score is correct and tells the story properly: Tal had an overall plus score against Fischer, or an equal score if you count the Herceg Novi blitz games. |
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May-26-11
| | chessgames.com: <cro777: By winning his last game Marjan Semrl (Slovenia) has become the 24th Correspondance Chess World Champion, ahead of Dr Hans-Dieter Wunderlich and Dr Tansel Turgut (<chesscard>). Congratulations!> Thank you for that news — congratulations, indeed! |
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| May-26-11 | | Nina Myers: <chessgames> Crosstable and all games of the <24th ICCF <World Championship Final>>: http://www.iccf-webchess.com/EventC... |
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