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| Jan-14-12 | | matebay: lol...series of tsunamis swept the shores clean... |
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Jan-14-12
 | | WannaBe: <chessgames.com> The Caissar will be over in an hour, so the front page advertisement can be replaced when ever you are ready to. Thank you for the exposure, and I also apologize for the unwanted attentions it may also have caused. I will send an email formally offering, for Mr. Freeman's considerations, into having Chessgames.com running the Award. And I will leave it to Mr. Freeman to decide whether to accept, or to decline. |
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Jan-15-12
| | WannaBe: I usually leave a message here announcing the pun winner, but this year, it was <YouRang>'s Drawma Queen, so I left a message at his forum. =) |
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| Jan-15-12 | | Blunderdome: Ah! Why can't I submit a pun for a game under 10 moves?? |
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| Jan-15-12 | | Caissanist: Good grief, are there really people who would pay money so that they could rig the Caissar awards? This takes "not having a life" to truly mind boggling levels. Personally, I hope the admins do <not> take over the Caissars, they spend too much time on routine clerical tasks as it is. As always, my number one feature request is that more of these functions be offloaded to members, or trusted members, or whatever, so that they Freeman and friends don't have to spend as much time on things like validating gamescores. |
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Jan-15-12
 | | chessgames.com: <Blunderdome: Ah! Why can't I submit a pun for a game under 10 moves??> Because we don't normally show Games of the Day with less than 10 moves. |
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Jan-15-12
 | | Richard Taylor: Why didn't I win all the Caissar awards? It's a plot I tell you!! |
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| Jan-16-12 | | Benzol: Can we have a page for the 2012 Queenstown Classic tournament please. |
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Jan-16-12
| | chessgames.com: Queenstown Chess Classic (2012) |
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Jan-17-12
 | | Stonehenge: <CG> The result of Harikrishna vs Lahno, 2012 is 1-0. |
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Jan-19-12
 | | Peligroso Patzer: The way the time control is described on the live page (Live Broadcast Page), i.e., as follows: "TIME CONTROL: Start with 100 min. Add 50 min at move 40. <Add 15 min and 30s/move at move 60>" ... seems to indicate that the 30-second increment applies only in the third, sudden death period. The time control is defined as follows at the official site (http://www.tatasteelchess.com/tourn...): "The time control is: 100 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 moves, then 15 minutes for the remaining moves with 30 seconds cumulative increment for each move <starting from the first move>." |
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Jan-19-12
| | chessgames.com: <PP> Oh, we did not know that--we believed that the increment only kicked in at the very end. Thanks for pointing that out. |
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| Jan-19-12 | | timhortons: hello cg. would it be possible that you add a feature of having stockfish, rybka or houdini available in analyzing/replaying games and this is for paying members only? |
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Jan-19-12
| | chessgames.com: <tim> This is an old idea we've thought about. The technical detail is that for it to work, we'd have to have a dedicated "chess analysis server" that would run several popular chess engines. We can't have the chess engine running on the same server as the database, nor web server. So we'd probably call it engine.chessgames.com or something, and it would just sit there waiting for chess analysis requests, which it would knock out one-by-one. Then people on Chessgames could queue up requests to the engine server and await an answer. It even could enter a move-by-move analysis mode, which would be nothing short of playing the computer a game of chess. Of course there might be tons of people asking for analysis, so to prevent gridlock, we'd have a policy so that premium members get bumped in the queue above non-premium members. It's an ambitious notion, but entirely doable. We hope to offer that kind of functionality one day. |
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| Jan-19-12 | | timhortons: <We hope to offer that kind of functionality one day.> we will be looking forward to that:) |
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| Jan-20-12 | | benjinathan: If needed, and no other candidate can be found, I volunteer to do the Caissar awards next year. I will buy another premium membership. If I am still alive. |
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Jan-20-12
 | | Annie K.: <chessgames.com> just for the record, I am strongly in favor of your hosting the Caissars yourself, in site-wide poll form. And I think you know yourself that this would be the best (and only sensible, really) way to go, for many reasons. :) |
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| Jan-20-12 | | timhortons: chessgames, you better handle the awards , if a groupie gonna do it again, chances are, only certain individual will have a chance to vote. out of more than a hundred thousand member not even 15 come out and vote. let it be the rule, one ip address one vote. |
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Jan-20-12
| | chessgames.com: <CHESS PLAYER PRONUNCIATION PROJECT> Check out these new pronunciation icons that show up at the top of the biographies: Alexander Alekhine
Max Euwe
Judit Polgar
Rudolf Rezso Charousek
Roman Dzindzichashvili
We want to know first and foremost: is there anybody who cannot use the pronunciation tool? Or even worse, is there anybody who has problems loading the page because of the Java audio tool? If so, please let us know. That aside, let's explain how this works. The idea is simple: we have a collection of mp3 files here http://www.chessgames.com/audio/ which determines which players get a pronunciation icon. We intentionally allowed directory viewing so that people can look there to see what we've got and what we need. As more mp3 files are deposited in that directory, more player pages will have the pronunciation icon. And so, we are soliciting donations of mp3 pronunciation files to make our biographies come alive with sounds. The files should be:
• Small. Most files should be under 40K, we can regard 50-60K as an absolute upper limit. There is no need for stereo sound with these files. 128 kbs is sufficient sound quality. • Good old MP3 format, and not mp4 format and certainly not aiff, ogg, etc. It is possible with some technical savvy to convert any audio format into MP3. • The files should simply be named with the player ID. For instance, since Alekhine is player 10240 his audio file should be 10240.mp3. Simple as that. • The audio file should be a very terse and clear pronunciation of the name. The name should be said ONE time, not multiple times. Our own Annie K did an exemplary job. • Original. You can't just download them from web sites and then give them to us, unless we get permission from the person who made the audio file in the first place. (Wikipedia audio files, on the other hand, may be usable according to the terms of Wikimedia.) If anybody has mp3 donations to our new pronunciation project, please email them to chess@chessgames.com. |
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Jan-20-12
| | WannaBe: <timhortons> Actually, for each category, well over 20 voters casted their ballots. Here is an example: <Funniest>
16.5 <technical draw>, 9 <nanobrain>, 5.5 <Phony Benoni> 3.5 <WannaBe>, 3 <Once>, 2 <Everyone, Colonel Mortimer> 1.5 <Domdaniel, Annie K. tpstar>, 1 <travis bickle, sevenseasman, LIFE Master AJ, Open Defence> <Constructive>
11 <wordfunph>, 8 <once>, 4.3333 <hms123>, 4 <frogbert>, 3 <dzechiel, OhioChessFan, twinlark>, 2 <SwitchingQuylthulg, FSR>, 1.3333 <Morfishine>, 1 <Domdaniel, Phony Benoni, Colonel Mortimer, Thanh Phan, Ray Keene, FM Avri>, 0.33333 <YouRang> Again, IPs can be changed/masked I can login from home, vote, go to internet cafe, vote, go to free wifi at Starbucks, vote, go to free wifi at McDonalds vote, go to work, vote. I don't even have to go in, just park outside, and tap in via my laptop! |
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| Jan-20-12 | | timhortons: mask ip addrss.
all problem goes down to people handling double account. |
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| Jan-20-12 | | technical draw: <chessgames.com> I checked out the pronunciation icons and they all worked. (Of course that puts to rest one of the greatest chess mysteries: How do you pronounce Euwe?) |
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| Jan-20-12 | | frogbert: td, you forgot to supply info about browser, version, shoe-size, os, sound-card, favourite food, isp, ups, etc, hearing aids, environmental noise levels and so on. |
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| Jan-20-12 | | benjinathan: <timhortons> I don't see that at all. My impression is that most voters were regulars or long term members. On a quick glance I only saw one that I thought was possibly dubious <avialbo>. In any event as <WannaBe> says: <there is nothing anyone can do about it>. |
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| Jan-20-12 | | benjinathan: As an aside, there is an alternative way to only permitting premium voters to cast ballots. That is to have a cut off - i.e. none can cast a ballot unless they have been a member by June of the previous year. |
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