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I captued all the dang pawns ... and I lose on time? Subtract rating points?

You know what, pal, the software is in BETA. You can tell that because on the landing page it says:

<B E T A> <T E S T>

The main line here (as you can see) is 10.Nbd2. Yet play it in GTM and it's worth 0 points! (Unless, of course, it actually happens in the game.)

Is this a known bug?

(Obviously I don't really know, but I suspect this could be caused by GTM's well-known move ambiguity problem - GTM will refer to both Nbd2 and Nfd2 as simply "Nd2", and Nfd2 here probably <is> worth a zero.

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Is it possible to search for kibitzes by a particular user?

I am looking for games where Peter Svidler had White and I <notyetagm> kibitzed on the game.

I played Matthew Piper last night - a very strong 2350 FIDE player in a team blitz tournament.

His page at Chessgames.com doesn't seem too emphatic about how strong he is.

I think there is a missing "Britbase" database you could import here with credit to John Saunders if possible. John Saunders is on Facebook. I could contact him if you would like me to ask.

The current Piper page:

Matthew Piper

really doesn't show the absolute strength of the player - I think he is great positionally and tactically. Recent London Classic he did well I think too.

Also maybe it is possible via Facebook to invite the 2300+ Fide players to add their PGN games to the Chessgames.com database. But easier would just be to get an import of Britbase which has key events like 4NCL:

Seems to be corporate policy at Microsoft.

<There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level. Stuff that will make them scream, cry, and howl in pain and anger!"

The key to understanding this phenomenon is that since they are only represented by extremely high category events, we see them only in events where they--as good as they are--find themselves outclassed by the competition. Look who Piper lost to: Chowdhury, Chandler, Szabo, and Hebden. Most players would lost if paired like that; it's nothing to be ashamed of, and yet we understand the desire to "set the record straight."

The intended behavior is that the Opening Explorer phase of Guess-the-Move should be very forgiving if you suggest a move that is the "normal" move, even if it's not he move actually played. I'm sure you've seen the penalty "That move has a poor reputation"; that means that according to the Opening Explorer the move is not played much and when it has been played it didn't work out very well. Chess engines are not used for that assessment; just historical stats.