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May-29-11
 | | Domdaniel: The *other* all-pervasive database problem is ratings. Some people, when submitting games, apparently make the mistake of using a player's then-current (or sometimes highest) rating. This can't be right: if the rating field can't contain the players' ratings *at the time the game was played*, it should be left blank. This would avoid absurdities like ten-year-olds with 2700 ratings, or a 2450 playing in a schoolboy event in 1963. Since FIDE ratings weren't in use before 1970, it should be possible to strip the ratings from earlier games. |
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| May-30-11 | | ahmadov: <chessgames.com> Thanks for your comment... Using the Guess-the-Move feature for that purpose was something in my mind... Another thing I was thinking about was creating a feature offering numerous puzzles with increasing difficulty rates and then letting people know their level of strength with approximate FIDE rating points... <But then there is a completely different bag of laundry: issues of vanity, "bragging rights", etc.> Maybe to avoid this you will need to add something like a posting guideline if you decide to launch such a feature... At the end of the day, this is also something to do with the moral level of every user... We have seen users posting more insulting things than boasting themselves... |
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May-30-11
 | | kingscrusher: <Annie K>
"<.: <chessgames.com: <We are not anti-Facebook, we just don't know much about it. We'll be looking into it this year.>>
Don't do it, guys. :) Embedding those social networking "plugins" slows down pageloads annoyingly IME, and why on earth would you want to direct discussions and communication <away> from the site, to Facebook? :s"> Annie, I am not sure the basic "Like" would drive traffic *away* from the site - otherwise why are Chessbase now adding it to the bottom of their news articles?!. Also, because all chessgames.com are readily sharable (without a login), of course people can just put chessgames.com URL's already in any Facebook wall to drive traffic to Chessgames.com. But the basic "Like" would mean that if someone say has 2000 friends on Facebook, and they click "Like" on a Chessgames.com page, then all that person's friends on Facebook will become aware of that Chessgames.com page being "liked" - and may visit it themselves. I accept your other point about a potential slight page slowdown maybe - but perhaps that is why Chessbase are putting their "like" right at the bottom of each news article - so it can load in its own time without affecting the main article load time. With regards to the particular "Comments" plugin - perhaps this is where you have a major point if all the discussion of games is to be kept on Chessgames.com. But what if for any particular game there were two tabs - the default being "Chessgames.com" discusion, but the other being "Facebook discussion", and maybe later "Twitter discussions". Would this be an outrageous idea - because those discussions would still be being reflected on the Chessgames.com pages - so surely adding more insights to key games here?!. Example: There are a lot of GM's on facebook in my friends list - what if these GM's dont visit this site, but see a comment discussion on facebook and add a comment there. That comment added there is then reflected in the "Facebook discussion" tab of a game here. Surely that adds an extra aspect of discussion interest to games here?! The least controversial experiment though I think is the basic "Like" - which is the simplest and most popular plugin. |
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May-30-11
| | Domdaniel: In which country was a child recently named 'Like', after Facebook? Israel. So maybe Annie knows something, as she's close to the infection site: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/new... It shouldn't take long now before we see a New Testament app by the neo-evangelists Mate-U, Mark, Like & Join. |
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| Jun-01-11 | | Turnip: <chessgames.com>
In the current Chessgames Challenge I am able to place my teamates on ignore (and they do appear on my ignore list) but I can still see their posts. Is this something that you intend? (Not an issue for me, I was only experimenting and don't actually want to ignore any of them.) |
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Jun-01-11
 | | Stonehenge: <teamates> Didn't you mean beermates? |
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Jun-02-11
| | Domdaniel: Tea? Beer? What about matémates? |
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Jun-02-11
 | | Eggman: Hi,
I notice that when I do search for, let's say, all games lost by Karpov with White I get the option to download the pgn for all the games, however when I use the Endgame Explorer to do a search for Rook endings with R+3Ps vs R+2Ps, I do not have the option to do a pgn download. Is there a reason for this, and if not could this perhaps be modified so that I have the option to download the pgn in either case? |
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Jun-02-11
 | | Phony Benoni: <Eggman> There appears to be a limit of 3000 games for a single PGN download. Karpov hasn't lost quite than many games with White, but the Rook ending search had over 9000. |
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Jun-02-11
| | Eggman: <<Phony Benoni>> Ah, yes, that makes sense. Thanks so much. |
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Jun-02-11
| | Domdaniel: <CG> Is there a way to search for the games from a non-recent event? To give an example, I wanted to look up Gibraltar 2006. Because I remembered some players, I started with them, found one game, clicked on the tournament title and got the whole event. But is there another way, especially if one is unsure of participants? |
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Jun-02-11
 | | Annie K.: <Dom> yep, there is. Tournaments sorted by year: New Games Page
You can find it on the main page at the bottom of the New Games section in the left column, as "more games". Not the most intuitive <title> for it to be under, but otherwise makes sense. :) |
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Jun-02-11
| | Domdaniel: <Annie> Tx. Who needs intuition with a cybersprite like you around? Intuition schmintuition, I just go with my gut. |
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Jun-02-11
| | Annie K.: <Dom> Heh. Well, the page title *was* intuitive, back in 2002, when they started it... but it's been a while since then. ;) <kingscrusher: <<Annie, I am not sure the basic "Like" would drive traffic *away* from the site - otherwise why are Chessbase now adding it to the bottom of their news articles?!.>>> Not exactly "traffic" in general, Tryfon, but <posting>, which is the main purpose of this <database-and-<community>> site. People start seeing each other's references to CG <on Facebook>, the result will be, they'll start talking about CG stuff <on Facebook>. Instead of here. Facebook is a pretty good associate, maybe, to sites that would like to enable member interaction, but where posting was not initially a part of the setup - it saves them on investing in developing/buying their own forum system. But here... "redundant", as the admins put it, is a bit of an understatement. 'Self-defeating' would be more like it. ;) |
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Jun-02-11
| | Domdaniel: Annie is absolutely correct, Scrush, old son. You know she is. Despite the recent rise in imported social media routines - hashtags, elbow brackets round a <name> replaced by '@name', und so weiter - this isn't part of that. Nor is it a predigital bulletin board. It is what it is, except when it isn't. And we like it that way. It's possible that facebookesque *etiquette* - which can be vicious, 'like' it or not - is already gaining a toehold. Nor can CG be maintained as a kind of grey net, cut off from the wider webberies. As Madame Sosostris used to say: you want a happy medium, you pay her. |
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Jun-03-11
 | | chessgames.com: <Domdaniel: <CG> Is there a way to search for the games from a non-recent event? > Annie is right, the New Games Page is the official mechanism, but it's also worth mentioning that we also have plans to incorporate recent tournaments into the advanced search. For example, you could search for "D44 at Amber 2009" or "Long games at Linares 2007" etc. We already have a pull-down search like that for our Sacrifice Explorer but we never got around to putting it on the homepage, even though it should work fine. |
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Jun-03-11
| | chessgames.com: <Eggman> Phony Benoni is right. For smaller ad-hoc searches the "Download PGN" button works great, but big searches are not allowed there due to a limit of ~3000 games. We get a lot of confusion about this restriction, so let's try to explain why it has to be this way: When people ask for enormous searches such as "all games of 2010" or "all victories with the Najdorf" they demand that our server custom-builds an enormous file just for them. And then the download is so huge it takes 5 or 10 minutes to get it, and most people cancel it before it finishes. This often creates a ton of server load catering to confused members who don't really want the gargantuan file anyhow. For those who really want to download huge PGN files, we have the Zipfile Archive. |
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| Jun-03-11 | | Blunderdome: Any plans to add the games from the French Team Championships Top 12? TWIC has them. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Stonehenge: <CG> I uploaded a game Jacques Mieses vs Hendrik Strick van Linschoten 1900, a while ago. I think I forgot to put 1-0 in the end, can you please find it and upload it? Thanks in advance :) |
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Jun-05-11
| | chessgames.com: Sure, really fun game: Mieses vs H Strick van Linschoten, 1900. |
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Jun-05-11
| | Stonehenge: Wow, that was quick :) |
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Jun-05-11
| | chessgames.com: You caught us at a lucky time :)
Blunderdome, here's the French Teams: French Team Championships (2011) and also we have the German championships: 82nd German Chess Championship (2011) and Sarah Hoolt fans note the women's section: 82nd German Chess Championship (Women) (2011) |
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| Jun-08-11 | | DrNyet: Is there a way to search for a term in the kibitzing for a particular game? Using gid=1622826 as an example, the kibitzing includes the word "credentials". Neither "gid=1622826 credentials" nor "1622826 credentials" on the Search Kibitzing page work. Nothing is found either by searching "gid=1622826 +credentials" or "+gid=1622826 +credentials". If I search on simply "gid=1622826" it finds nothing (I thought it might find every kibitz for the game), while searching on "1622826" does bring up a couple of posts where the game is linked in kibitzing for other games but nothing else. |
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Jun-08-11
| | Domdaniel: <DrNyet> I don't think that gids can be used to narrow searches like that. In the vast majority of cases, if you know the game/gid then finding a particular word is easy. I see that your example, though, has over 100 pages - so you need to look for 'credentials' plus some other relevant word. In this case, the surname of the Black player does the trick. One result. Maybe there's a better workaround for general cases, such as games which have been kibitzed live. But name are a good starting point. |
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| Jun-08-11 | | hms123: DOM
It would be very useful for the team games, the world games, and some individual game pages. |
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