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Oct-13-11
 | | chessgames.com: Regarding Search Kibitzing <1. Search kibitz, can you add a line into your code so the cursor is in the input box?> That's a fine idea; we just have to be code-copycats and find that little Javascript doohickey that does that. <2. Can we customize how many to display once we click on 'search'? Kinda like how we can choose number of game to display? I see that currently, it shows 10 returned matches per page.> Also not a bad idea; I know how it feels to keep clicking "next" like a monkey 10 times in a row. Clever users alter the URL but a good website should never assume the user would know or want to do that. The problem is, it's a bit too specific to put on the Preference Page, so maybe a good compromise would be to just set it to 25 for everybody from this point on. Let us ponder that issue. Idea #1 is great though, look for it soon. |
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Oct-13-11
 | | Domdaniel: <CG> Personally, I almost never look at 'Recent Kibitzing' to see what's going on. I don't search kibitzing for my username either -- I have my own secret pathways around the site. I'm aware, though, that many folk *do* use 'recent kibitzing' -- and these are often the ones who get the impression that the place is going somewhere hot in a handcart. Alabama, possibly. In the long term, could 'recent kibitzing' be made customizable? So that, if a user prefers, it only shows recent posts on, say, Grandmaster games, games played in the past year, or games not played in Florida? Or Estonia, Ireland, or Bahrain? Difficult to set up, I know, but I imagine it would be widely appreciated. |
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Oct-13-11
| | Domdaniel: <Nina Myers> Maintenant, il me semble que le bio est exquis. Il est écrit dans une langue civilisée, même. Auparavant, je n'ai aucune idée. Un cas peut-être de "Metro, boulot, porno, dodo"?
Dodo ne dort jamais. |
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Oct-13-11
| | chessgames.com: About our Recent Kibitzing Page - it's true, that's where the majority of the problems lie. Our argument "if you don't like it, just don't go there" falls apart when you are being constantly barraged by messages at the top of your favorite CG page. Recent Kibitzing is intended to be one of the core pages of CG, the one that we want you to bookmark, the one that gets its own button in the corner. Heck, we even put a refresh button on it to encourage camping out there. So yes, perhaps more customizable options on the Recent Kibtizing page might help. On a different subject, Sadler fans will enjoy seeing that we have Oslo Chess International (2011) open for kibitzing now. |
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Oct-13-11
 | | WannaBe: <CG.com> Usually .focus() will do in javascript... Document.MyForms.SearchKibitzInputBox.focus(); |
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Oct-13-11
| | chessgames.com: Exactly the doohickey I had in mind! Thanks. |
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Oct-13-11
| | WannaBe: Wow, I had 1 good idea and 1 great idea, all in one day, plus a line of javascript! I've met my quota for the decade, good thing too, my brain is tired. I'll be on coffee break, hanging out at the W. So page for laughs. |
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Oct-14-11
| | Domdaniel: Shouldn't this game - not yet in the database - be called 'The Opera House Game'? [Event "BCF-ch 85th"]
[Site "Torquay"]
[Date "1998.08.07"]
[Round "11"]
[White "Sadler, Matthew"]
[Black "Wells, Peter K"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D47"]
[WhiteElo "2650"]
[BlackElo "2530"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3
Bb7 9.O-O b4 10.Ne4 Be7 11.Nxf6+ Nxf6 12.a3 a5 13.e4 O-O 14.Qe2 c5 15.dxc5 Nd7 16.c6 Bxc6 17.Be3 Bb7 18.Rfd1 Qb8 19.Nd4 Nc5 20.Bb5 bxa3 21.Rxa3
Nxe4 22.Rad3 Rc8 23.Bd7 Rc5 24.Nxe6 fxe6 25.Bxe6+ Kh8 26.Rd7 Bf8 27.Qf3
Ng5 28.Qxb7 Qxb7 29.Rxb7 Nxe6 30.Bxc5 Nxc5 31.Rb5 a4 32.Rc1 Rd8 33.g3 Ne6
34.Ra5 Nd4 35.Rc4 Nf3+ 36.Kh1 g5 37.Rcxa4 Rd2 38.Kg2 Ne1+ 39.Kf1 Nd3
1-0
Opera fans will know why. Others might want to read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadler... |
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| Oct-14-11 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM>
Could you please start a forum for the new <GERMAN SCHACH BUNDESLIGA 2011-2012> season, which started today? Thanks
TWIC -> http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/chessne... TWIC PGN -> http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/assets/... |
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| Oct-15-11 | | JoergWalter: <Chessgames>
Try "find similar games" for this
Morphy vs Duke Karl / Count Isouard, 1858
"Sorry, there are no games similar .."
Happens occasionally with other games as well. Can this be fixed? |
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Oct-15-11
| | chessgames.com: <Joerg> We're aware of that weakness. The situation is this: the "similar games" feature predates the Opening Explorer and is therefore more primitive. It's not as good with transpositions as the OE. Somewhere on our to-do list is to make an upgraded version of "similar games" that uses OE data and is therefore rock-solid dependable. |
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Oct-15-11
| | chessgames.com: <Bundesliga> So this is the very beginning of the new season? Cool. Look for it shortly. |
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| Oct-15-11 | | whiteshark: <Bundesliga> ♥ ♥ ♥ |
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Oct-15-11
 | | Peligroso Patzer: Here is the PGN for a game not currently to be found in this database. The game below (starting with the position after <85. Rh2>) is analyzed at pages 18-19 of <Tragicomedy in the Endgame: Instructive Mistakes of the Masters>, by Dvoretsky, Mark, Russell Enterprises, Inc. ©2011. Relying on MD's annotations, I have indicated with <?> or <??> (in accordance with Dvoretsky's characterization of each such move) the blunders that caused each half-point swing in the theoretical evaluation of the position: [Event "Cancan Veterans-Women"]
[Site "Roquebrune"]
[Date "1998.09.15"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Zhu Chen"]
[Black "Taimanov, Mark E"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2480"]
[BlackElo "2455"]
[PlyCount "195"]
[EventDate "1998.09.07"]
[EventType "schev"]
[EventRounds "12"]
[EventCountry "FRA"]
[Source "ChessBase"]
[SourceDate "1998.11.30"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bg5 c5 4. e3 b6 5. d5 d6 6. Bxf6 Qxf6 7. Bb5+ Bd7 8. Bxd7+ Nxd7 9. Nc3 e5 10. Nd2 Be7 11. h4 Qg6 12. g4 f5 13. gxf5 Qxf5 14. Nde4 Nf6 15. Ng3 Qg4 16. Qxg4 Nxg4 17. Ke2 Kd7 18. Rag1 Nf6 19. h5 Rhg8 20. Nge4 Nxe4 21. Nxe4 Raf8 22. Rg4 Rf5 23. Ng3 Rg5 24. Re4 h6 25. b4 cxb4 26. Rxb4 Rc8 27. Rc1 Bd8 28. c4 Rg4 29. Kd3 Rh4 30. Rbb1 Rh2 31. Rc2 Bh4 32. Ne4 Rf8 33. Rg1 Rf7 34. Rcc1 Be7 35. Rh1 Rxh1 36. Rxh1 Rf5 37. Rh2 Bf8 38. Ng3 Rf7 39. Ke4 Ke8 40. Rg2 Rc7 41. Kd3 b5 42. cxb5 Rc5 43. e4 Rxb5 44. Nf5 Ra5 45. Nxg7+ Kf7 46. Ne6 Rxa2 47. Nxf8 Kxf8 48. Rg6 Ra3+ 49. Ke2 Ra6 50. Rxh6 Kg7 51. Rg6+ Kh7 52. Re6 Rb6 53. Re7+ Kh6 54. Rxa7 Kxh5 55. Rg7 Kh6 56. Rg8 Rb3 57. f3 Rb2+ 58. Ke3 Kh5 59. Rc8 Rb3+ 60. Kf2 Kg5 61. Kg3 Kf6 62. Rc6 Ke7 63. Rc7+ Kf6 64. Rd7 Rb6 65. Kg4 Ra6 66. Rh7 Ra3 67. Rh8 Ke7 68. f4 exf4 69. Kf5 f3 70. Rh7+ Kd8 71. Ke6 Re3 72. Kxd6 Rxe4 73. Rf7 Ke8 74. Rxf3 Rh4 75. Rg3 Rd4 76. Rg8+ Kf7 77. Rd8 Ra4 78. Rc8 Rd4 79. Rd8 Ra4 80. Rb8 Rd4 81. Rc8 Rd1 82. Rc2 Ke8 83. Kc6 Ke7 84. Re2+ Kd8 85. Rh2 Rc1+<??> 86. Kd6 Kc8 87. Rh8+ Kb7 88. Kd7 Rc7+ 89. Ke6 Rg7 90. Re8<??> Rg5<?> 91. d6 Rg6+ 92. Kd7<?> Rg1<?> 93. Re7<?> Rg8<?> 94. Rh7 Rf8 95. Ke7 Rf1 96. d7 Re1+ 97. Kd8 Kc6 98. Kc8 1-0 Here is the starting position (after <85. Rh2>) for Dvoretsky's anaysis: 
click for larger view |
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Oct-16-11
| | chessgames.com: Thanks, that's very funny/tragical as described. We put it in our database along with the annotation: Zhu Chen vs Taimanov, 1998. |
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Oct-16-11
| | Domdaniel: Making it the 2nd game this week, after Sadler vs P Wells, 1998, to be fast-tracked into the database after being posted on this page. Is this a loophole? Won't the folks in the queue be annoyed? But thanks all the same. |
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Oct-17-11
 | | Stonehenge: <CG> What happened to the picture of Friedrich Saemisch? |
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Oct-17-11
| | chessgames.com: <Stonehenge> Oops; we decided that it would be more consistent to spell his name "Saemisch" (we used to have Samisch) but we forgot to rename the photograph. Speaking of photos, check out the lovely new one for Judit Polgar. <Peligroso Patzer> In case you don't know what Domdaniel is referring to, you can upload games via our PGN Upload Utility feature. FYI, it's traditional for us to chew out anybody who posts PGN here while others have been waiting eons for their submissions to be processed normally. |
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Oct-17-11
| | Stonehenge: <CG> Thanks, Nimzo-Indian, Samisch (E24) and King's Indian, Samisch Variation (E80) can also be renamed. |
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| Oct-18-11 | | Shams: I have a feature request; forgive me for putting it here but I think it has legs. Given:
a) most long-time users have many thousand posts (I myself have 7,300; for which, dear readers, I can't begin to offer sufficient apology), b) each post is part of an ongoing conversation and most users, I think, check pages where they have posted to look for replies, sometimes <long after the fact>... and c) at most each member can view what looks to be 200-400 posts in their user history, before new posts push old ones out the bottom, after which only the tectonic churn of the site may bring them back into his or her awareness-- Given that, what about a new section on the user page, similar to "Recent Kibitzing" and perhaps near to it on that page, that updates as "Recent Kibitzing" does, but in the opposite fashion; it instead shows your older kibitzing <which is about to be pushed out forever>. Thus does each user get a chance to see if, say, a post of his has received a worthy reply. Yes, strictly speaking it's unnecessary: users could, if they wanted to, visit their user history, then click "more" and scroll to the bottom to manually check. But I'd bet money nobody does that, whereas I think people <would> actually check those five or ten historical posts of theirs which are on the verge of dropping from their purview. Thoughts? |
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Oct-18-11
| | chessgames.com: There are sneaky ways to see your oldest posts, namely with Search Kibitzing, but those techniques are undocumented. The hardcore users know how to do it but we've never really made a user-friendly feature for that purpose. Perhaps the real heart of the matter is that there should be an easier way to keep going to see older messages, and then still older messages, so that there is no "brink" beyond which messages turn invisible. (If the Twitter engineers designed it, they would make a magical page that keeps growing larger and larger as long as you bother to scroll--but our HTML techniques are from much simpler times!) |
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Oct-18-11
 | | kingscrusher: Hi Chessgames
I know this is a small potential set of enhancements for the tournament pages but it might be cool : On the tournament pages, what if there were little country flags, and the latest available FIDE rating by each player name - where the information was known. If it isn't then no flag or FIDE rating. Also perhaps a Summary line could show the Average FIDE rating of the participants. The idea came to me because I recognise the Bilbao tournament as one of the strongest recently - and maybe to make this more apparent from recent tournaments listed on the left of the front page, having a FIDE rating emphasis would be cool. Country flags might draw Chessgames viewqers in to examine more games of players from their own country. |
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Oct-18-11
| | kingscrusher: Further to my last message in fact, on the tournament summary listing on the front page, you could have the Tournament Category rating (based on Average FIDE of participants). This might draw people in to see the higher category events first if they haven't got too much time and want to check out first the stronger events. |
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| Oct-18-11 | | Shams: <chessgames.com> Yes, good point that <Search Kibitzing> is another workaround, but as you note it's not generally used. <Perhaps the real heart of the matter is that there should be an easier way to keep going to see older messages, and then still older messages, so that there is no "brink" beyond which messages turn invisible.> Yes, this cuts right to it. Of course nobody can track 10,000 conversations at once, not even <tpstar> with his mainframe memory. Maybe some mechanism for churn, whereby posts always come around again, in a cycle? Thanks for listening. |
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| Oct-18-11 | | Whitehat1963: <chessgames.com>, a suggestion for Guess the Move: Personal statistics. It would not only be fun, but also useful, to know the percentage of the games I score average, good, outstanding, etc. I imagine a program could be written to keep track of those statistics and to display them in one's profile. It would also be useful to see how those stats change over time, via a line graph, for instance. |
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