If you put in the Sicilian numbers, it will return number of games too large, please narrow down your search.

Shouldn't they be deleted?

This is probably a silly question, but can game collections have the kibitzing facility. E.g. the following collection:

Game Collection: 1967 - 2: Beat Bobby Fischer Contest!

I would have liked to have kibitzed this relevant video link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGp...

It seems oddly spread out on the page in a way that the <chessforums> page is not.

PLEASE!!! (?)

<Phony Benoni: Two probably impossible dreams: 1) Kibitzing on game collection pages.>

"Not impossible, but it creates all sorts of complications. For example, what if a collection is kibitzed upon 10,000 times and then the owner deletes the collection? Also, what if people try to use it as a way to create pages for political/religious/etc. topics? Not many people have asked for it, and it's tricky, so we're not big on the idea."

Okay then, how about this? <Chessgames> implements a monthly feature, a <Collection of the Month> feature. When that collection is selected, it remains a <permanent> part of the site, with the name of the compiler permanently attached to it. And every <Collection of the Month> can be kibitzed, whereas regular collections can be deleted or altered and have no kibitzing.

I can think of several places where such a link could go, without any need for a kibitzing function.

One's own bio/profile, and the relevant game or player page(s) are the obvious places to post such free adverts.

Also another idea regarding Game collections - I think it would be cool to have a Chessgames.com own "like" by each game entry in a collection..

In this way members could "like" particular games in a game collection which might draw attention to a particularly spectacular or brilliant game. Maybe you could also see which members liked a particular game as well as the number of likes.

<This is probably a silly question, but can game collections have the kibitzing facility.> That's one of those ideas that sounds great in principle, but the more you think about it, the more you realize it's a real can of worms. Remember, whomever starts a Game Collection will the eternal god of that page: they will be able to delete any post from it, or the entire collection if they please. Just look at the stir caused recently when somebody deleted messages from their chessforum; the game collection aspect might be 100 times worse. There is also the concern that people create game collections just for the sake of starting a discussion, especially a distasteful discussion. As things stand we give one "special" forum to each premium user, which is great, but giving each member an infinite bucket of forums? Fred's <Collection of the Month> is an interesting idea but rather complicated.

<LIFE Master AJ> Please do not repost material here that you find offensive.

<Stonehenge: There are games from an under 8 Ch. in the database (Yaroslav Viktorov amongst others). Shouldn't they be deleted?> Yes. We just stuck our dog on that tournament (a program that removes fishy games). Ironically, comments like <Chris C: What the heck is this?> preserve the game so the software doesn't touch it. I'll manually delete the ones I see are junk.

#1.) Its NOT in your DB, I have looked several times.

#2.) Its NOT a duplicate of any other game.

#3.) White is 2500+.

#4.) Its the most forceful example of 6.Qb3 that I can find anywhere.

I really do appreciate this, and would be too scared to do what you have done on my own site with regard to members having their own forum. It is the moderation aspect which scares me a lot.

I think this is an excellent idea, placing a link to a game in someone's collections, if the owner wishes to do so.

<Kingcrusher> Here's an idea. In the description section of a collection, the owner could provide links to videos.

You could drop in and say, "Hey, I did a video on the game "Fischer - Geller 1967." Owner then could provide a link, something we could easily do.

So maybe a collection owner could be allowed to "approve/reject" Youtube links submittd to a particular game collection?!

The links might be footage - or even the players sometimes themselves are annotating their games in the post-commentary rooms of Tournaments nowadays, and that ends up on Youtube.

Just the infusion of Youtube links may bypass the scope of contentious controversial posts, and might add value to a game collection. That Fischer video was quite interesting for the related collection:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzGp...