Alex Lopez is at least as Hibernian as I am, and I have the chessical bruises to prove it. He has a charming Cork accent, too.

Don't say 'brogue': it means a type of shoe.

A Ertelt vs R Gralla, 2011

Even though the players are obscure, I'm sure you'll agree the game is remarkable enough for the database.

<I know such things are personal but this post contained a graphic torture link that offends me more than anything I have ever read on this site. Can we please take it down, it's just revolting. And no I haven't clicked on it.> I removed the original post and the flurry of follow-up posts both chastising the user and warning others not to click. I spared myself as well by refusing to click on the links (any of them): the sheer volume of Whistles told me all I needed to know.

If you know for a fact that the missing game was submitted around the same time as games which were accepted, you can be pretty sure that there must have been some problem. At that point you can perhaps looking carefully for an error, or (ideally) using a chess program to make PGN for you. Then resubmit it.

If it really becomes a mystery for you (let's say you're on the third go-around and can't figure out what the problem could possibly be) feel free to write chess@chessgames.com and we'll get to the bottom of it. Sometimes it turns out that the same moves were played move-for-move in the same year or by one of the same players; sometimes it's a little PGN glitch; sometimes it turns out that we have the game already but under a slightly different name spelling; but there's always some explanation.

I hate to throw a damper on this love in, but I have to express strong disappointment at the inaction by yourselves in cleaning up the Wesley So page.

Seeing as you haven't responded to my last four emails <at all> and took your own sweet time responding to several urgent whistle blows in respect of insulting userids, I thought I might bring it to your attention on this page, just in case my messages have travelled by sea mail and haven't yet arrived.

Also, I'd like to draw your attention to several vicious and obscene messages directed at <ughaibu> including :

- one likening <ughaibu> to a homosexual who derives pleasure from fellatio performed by an old homosexual man.

- one saying that it seems <ughaibu> is on drugs, that he is from the mental hospital and that he is high.

- another exhorting another kibitzer <may you be sucked by a homosexual goat>

- another telling someone to be <be careful of that mad dog kenyan ughaibo>.

BTW "mad dog" is idiomatically more virulent in Tagalog than in English, the virulent homophobia is explicit, and the racism in reference to the "kenyan" is obvious. It's not just white folk that can be racist, so pull your finger out chaps, as you're condoning the inexcusable.

And don't be intimidated by some of these people accusing <you> of being racist: that is such an obvious pre-emptive ploy guaranteed to try and stymie sanctions on your part.

Good luck finding these and others directed at other members, as you don't seem to be interested in making use of people willing to offer their time and resources to help restore the Wesley So page to normalcy. I'm fed up with the whole mess, your tardiness and inactivity in responding to an intolerable situation and in not responding <when you said you would>, not even a simple non-committal acknowledgment, let alone anything substantive.

#1.) How long before this "sand-box" thing actually kicks in?

#2.) Is this is what is holding up a few of my recent submissions? (For example, Rousselle - Franklin.)

<chessgames.com: <Domdaniel: <CG> Topalov is playing a clock simul *right now* against a team of Irish GMs and IMs (Baburin, Collins, Lopez, Quinn).> How exciting! I can't remember a stunt like that since Kasparov was king. Of course we'll get those games up for discussion as soon as we are able.>

I suggest those that keep whining about it do the same.

<Retroactive editing doesn't undo the real-time damage to the ability of civilized people to enjoy the site.>

It might be an idea, though, to replace it with one that had fewer [??] fields. The current one, for example, doesn't indicate whether dates should be year/month/day or year/day/month.

Some would-be uploaders may be confused about what exactly is needed, and this in turn leads to more games stuck in your <PGN Limbo> file. Or whatever the current destination of unbaptized chessgames is called.