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Aug-11-11
 | | chessgames.com: <hms123: <chessgames> I just sent an email with information on the Rinus Award> Got it and congratulations to ismeria. <positionalgenius: <CG> Am I missing the russian superfinal page or is there not one?> We were a round late getting it up, but here it is: Russian Superfinals (2011) <LIFE Master AJ: Your computer in your playing zone is broken.> We know. We're not taking it out of beta-mode until it works. <OhioChessFan: Can you include profiles in the search function?> Interesting thought! Thanks, we'll get back to you on that. |
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| Aug-12-11 | | Blunderdome: Not to be a nag, but I hope you are planning on adding the games from the Baku Open A, which is now into its later rounds. Mamedyarov, Vaelljo-Pons, Dominguez-Perez, Dreev, Sutovsky, Zhigalko, and many other strong GMs. Would be a shame if the database missed out on these games. http://www.chess.az/DefaultEn.html or TWIC will have the games. |
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Aug-12-11
| | chessgames.com: Our pleasure -- Baku Open (2011). |
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Aug-13-11
 | | OhioChessFan: I would strongly prefer that linking from my profile's list of my most recent posts to the Akobian game take me to the page that I made my last post. Currently, it defaults to the last page of kibitzing. There's ways around that but I see no good reason for the World game link to be different than any other link. |
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Aug-13-11
| | chessgames.com: Hi Ohio, I remember that issue being brought up here not long ago (the last Battle of the Brains or something). I can guess exactly why you want it working: it's your best way to catch up on what you've missed since you were here last. There isn't really any other way to do that, and with a page that grows as fast as the Akobian game you really need that function. So in short it's basically a bug, and we'll try to correct it soon. |
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Aug-13-11
| | OhioChessFan: Are you interested in some suggestions for Holiday Hunt clues? I have a few saved. |
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Aug-14-11
| | chessgames.com: We have actually started putting together the Christmas Hunt questions together early this year, which should make this year's contest the most exciting one yet. Some of the clues will be much different from what you're used to, in a good way. About accepting submissions: There are several problems. You'd have to not participate in the contest itself, at least not in those questions. And we'd have to trust you implicitly to keep your notes private. Suppose one of your friends on Chessgames happens to be the one who solves it? People will accuse you of giving away the answer to your friend, even if you didn't. In short, we're going to try to keep it entirely in-house, but thanks for the offer. Of course you can always share them just for fun. |
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| Aug-14-11 | | dakgootje: <OCF>Could make it a player-governed (this is the wrong word, but you know..) competition - similar to the prediction competitions. For instance, a new clue is posted every sunday at noon EST and the first person to copy-paste the correct url gets a point or whatever.. Oh dear, <competition> - been thinking about that for the whole day already..
Some day this 'doing useful things'-business is going to demolish my brain. |
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| Aug-14-11 | | Open Defence: <Open Defence: any thoughts on adding more annotated games ?> any thoughts ? |
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Aug-14-11
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Open Defence: <Open Defence: any thoughts on adding more annotated games ?> any thoughts ?> Go for it ;-)
But make sure you aren't using copyrighted annotations ;-)) |
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Aug-14-11
| | OhioChessFan: <cg.c About accepting submissions: There are several problems. You'd have to not participate in the contest itself, at least not in those questions.> I had that figured out.
<And we'd have to trust you implicitly to keep your notes private.> Sort of like trusting me not to use an engine during a BoB? <Suppose one of your friends on Chessgames happens to be the one who solves it? People will accuse you of giving away the answer to your friend, even if you didn't.> I don't care what people accuse me of. For the past how many years, I've given away how many memberships? Last year, I gave away an answer to a clue that I knew was for a premium prize. Perhaps I am expecting too much to think anyone should implicitly trust me. <In short, we're going to try to keep it entirely in-house, but thanks for the offer. Of course you can always share them just for fun.> Good enough.
<dak: For instance, a new clue is posted every sunday at noon EST and the first person to copy-paste the correct url gets a point or whatever..> Well yeah, but I could still be cheating and giving the answers to someone. |
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| Aug-14-11 | | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
You might like to add the 2011 Women Grandmaster Chess Tournament in Hangzhou that finished a few weeks ago: http://chess-results.com/tnr53030.a... |
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Aug-15-11
| | chessgames.com: OhioChessFan, sorry to sound so uptight about it, I guess I'm just nervous to bend company policy. I didn't mean to sound disinterested; in fact I am sincerely curious what you have cooked up. If you want to email me them, I'd be happy to take a look. Perhaps one solution is to mail you a check for a nominal $1 salary thereby making you an official Chessgames employee. :) We've invented up some really complicated ones for 2011, some will make you say "how did they construct that?" they are such feats of engineering. And yet that alone doesn't make a good puzzle. In my opinion, the truly artistic ones are the ones that are simple yet eminently fair. One of my favorites thus far was <c, for horses>. So devious, and yet once you see the answer you have to admit it's incontrovertibly the only right answer. |
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Aug-15-11
 | | WannaBe: <OhioChessFan> I think, CG.com is correct, it's their contest, they are the ones putting up the prizes and at no cost to any/all of us. Signing a Non-Disclosure Contract is standard, heck, I'd do it for 1 cent, if they would accept one of my 'clue'. Not that I have to give them... |
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Aug-15-11
 | | Domdaniel: Steady on, Nuklu isn't due back for months. My year ... one might almost say my life ... revolves around that annual quiz, and my never-ending battle to extend my premium membership to 2020 and beyond. I discussed the idea of submitting clues last year on my forum, in between praying for the next manifestation of the mighty deity Nuklu. We concluded, as you did, that in-house-ness is vital. It's not that I don't trust <Ohio> to keep his word ... there is *no* CG member whose solemn promise is worth more. I can only quote Thomas Pynchon's *Proverbs for Paranoids* -- <"You hide, They seek">. The us/them distinction is crucial and should not be diluted. But I would like to see clues that were soluble by human ingenuity, rather than websites (image recognition, anagram unscrambling, etc). Anyone who has thought up a clever clue is welcome to try it out on me, and to send me a prize if and when I crack it. |
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Aug-15-11
| | WannaBe: <Domdaniel> give me a crack at it, let me think of something, give me a couple of weeks to come up with a real 'good' one. =) |
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Aug-16-11
 | | tpstar: From 2007:
In the holiday spirit, here are some fun clues for the Administrators to solve. I made a point not to visit these games recently, just so you couldn't be clever and review my Games History to locate them. Here you go: 1) Checkmate
2) Good Game
3) Hello Chess Board - Sauna and/or Milieu
4) I've seen some incredible draws in my life ...
5) Miss Scarlet in the Conservatory with the Candlestick 6) From Justin to Kelly
7) gid=n where N is a seven digit number between 1000000 and 1500000 8) Game of the Century - Not!
9) In the beginning, there was darkness ...
10) Bird, Female and Interesting
[Now this last one is very challenging, so here are some extra hints. "Bird" means one of them saw a bird that week, "Female" suggests at least one of their mothers is female, and "Interesting" indicates there was something really interesting going on in the world at the time.] Let us know when you find them. Happy hunting! ;>D |
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Aug-17-11
| | chessgames.com: OK here's something to keep you busy, a rejected xmas clue. For being a reject, it's really quite good. • four interlocked circles
• "B" with wings
• black horse on a yellow shield
• red ram's head
• circle quartered blue and white
• blue oval
• red cross with snake
HINT: A=1, B=2, C=3, etc.
Of course there is no prize banner on the game, but if you see some very old kibitzing, and a certain life master declaring it "incredible!" you know you got it. |
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| Aug-17-11 | | dakgootje: Quite nice indeed :)
From now on, I shall extrapolate that rejected clue to the other rejected clues, and be convinced virtually all clues I could have solved were rejected. |
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Aug-18-11
 | | Stonehenge: <<Aug-07-11 chessgames.com: <BobCrisp: Those <Capablanca> games....don't tell me you've lost them.> pending PGN submissions? No, they are just fine, look for them soon> .We're still waiting... |
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Aug-18-11
| | Domdaniel: <dak> You *solved* it? Incroyable, mon ami. All I can see is a pile of allusions to heraldry, in the style of an alchemical recipe for the philosopher's stone. No eye of newt, though. Of course one could cheat by rejigging one's favorites list so that (gulp) a certain life master is the only person on it -- hey, is this a subtle peacemaking strategy disguised as a clue? -- and then doing a search-kibitz for 'incredible'. He uses the word rather frequently, though, so even that isn't much of a shortcut. |
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Aug-18-11
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Domdaniel> Stop thinking about alchemy and think about cars instead. |
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| Aug-18-11 | | dakgootje: <SQ:<Domdaniel> Stop thinking about alchemy and think about cars instead.> Instead of general advice - this is actually a hint to the clue. -- The "B" with wings gave it away fairly quickly for me - and the rest suitably followed suit. Had to guess with 'red ram's head' though, as you don't see them around here. Them being cars, rams or heads. |
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| Aug-18-11 | | LIFE Master AJ: < Aug-18-11 jessicafischerqueen: LOL! You are becoming the checkmate with your king king.
<AJ> QUESTION: is the game page computer here stronger or weaker than "little chess partner"? Can you set any time control you want on the game page computer you've been playing?> Do you know the aprroximate chess strength (or rating) of: A.) The Crafy engine that you use (here) to occasionally post analysis? B.)"Lil Chess Partner?"
Sorry, I am sort of an engine guru, but I don't use your on-site tools much ... maybe tried it once or twice. (When I analyze, I nearly ALWAYS use <ChessBase 10> ... and whatever engine I feel like pulling up. I apologize, I don't beleive I have used your "on-site" tools much ... I have no idea of their approximate rating or chess-playing strength. (Maybe you have answered this question before, but I could not find it!) |
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Aug-18-11
| | tpstar: <four interlocked circles, "B" with wings, black horse on a yellow shield, red ram's head, circle quartered blue and white, blue oval, red cross with snake, HINT: A=1, B=2, C=3> If <chrisowen> can submit clues then so should everybody else. |
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