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| Jan-26-12 | | dakgootje: <with certain persons 'spamming their own forums' to take the lead.> The 2012-version of that is having others spamming your chessforum ;) |
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| Jan-26-12 | | technical draw: For some strange reason I feel like eating a Spam and egg sandwich. |
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Jan-26-12
 | | Stonehenge: I don't want any spam!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_eY... |
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Jan-26-12
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Thanh Phan: Hello <chessgames.com> Are possible to list or link the common Russian/Cyrillic alphabet in use on this site? Have attempt to use Windows Vista Russian keyboard or copy/paste from YouTube with some letters accepted and other letters become strings, ie: Професс&-
#1080;онал.
мгновен&-
#1080;й весны,
медленн&-
#1099;й образец A few others yet have forget to save the information toward listing here> It seems to me the problem here isn't with any particular letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, but rather with the way ChessGames handles very long strings. Very long "words" are potentially wider than your computer screen, which can cause the breaking of CG formatting or other undesirable effects. CG therefore automatically breaks very long strings into multiple parts. It may <look> as if there aren't any very long words in your post - however, each of those Cyrillic letters is handled internally as a seven-character code, so CG's software is fooled into thinking a 14-letter word (say) written in Cyrillic is actually a 98-letter word! The software then inserts an extra hyphen to split that 98-letter word - unfortunately, that hyphen ends up in the <middle of one of those seven-character codes>, thus breaking the formatting for that particular letter. |
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| Jan-26-12 | | TheFocus: <technical draw>< For some strange reason I feel like eating a Spam and egg sandwich> You could try a Spam musubi. Extremely popular here in Alohaland. And pretty darn good!! |
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Jan-27-12
 | | chessgames.com: <Re that 'misidentification error' - neat phrase, btw, have you considered running for public office?> To clarify what's going on: an administrator makes the live game page by supplying a PGN file for the game that contains everything except the moves. Then the admin also has to type the "identifying substring": i.e., what substring to look for in the output of the official site's PGN when the game is live. For instance, since tomorrow we're showing an Aronian game, a logical substring would be "ARONIAN". If the admin sets up an Aronian game but accidentally leaves the substring as "CARLSEN" from the day before, voila, we have Carlsen's moves pasted into Aronian's header. It's such an easy mistake to make it's a miracle it hasn't happened 100 times by now. Now, it may seem silly that the admin would have to explain to the software that the Aronian game is the one that says "ARONIAN". What else would it think it should be? But before that feature, the software would sometimes not find the right game because the official sites often use strange conventions. Once it didn't find a Van Wely game when the site named him "VanWely", another time Topalov became "Topalow". So the human touch is required, but at least now we have a safety feature such that if the admin enters a substring that is not found in the PGN itself, giant red letters warn the admin of the inconsistency. <what has become of the kibitzes on the 'false' page, wrongly identified as Giri-Aronian but (at the time) showing the moves of Nakamura-Carlsen?> We saw posts in roughly three categories: complaining, posts about Giri-Aronian, posts about Carlsen-Nakamura. Sorting out which posts went to which game and then moving it appropriately was too much of a headache to even contemplate. And so we wiped it out, hoping to start from scratch with both games. Sorry. |
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Jan-27-12
 | | OhioChessFan: <We saw posts in roughly three categories: complaining, posts about Giri-Aronian, posts about Carlsen-Nakamura. Sorting out which posts went to which game and then moving it appropriately was too much of a headache to even contemplate. And so we wiped it out, hoping to start from scratch with both games. Sorry.> I'm sure if you emailed them to Dom, he'd distill out the Giri-Aronian comments. |
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| Jan-27-12 | | Benzol: <I don't want any spam!> With apologies to Dr Seuss
"I do not like green eggs and spam!". |
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Jan-27-12
| | chessgames.com: <It seems to me the problem here isn't with any particular letters of the Cyrillic alphabet, but rather with the way ChessGames handles very long strings.> Switchy, you're 100% correct. We should be able to modify our long-word-rule to avoid snipping Unicode words in half, or at least avoid snipping a Unicode character down the middle. |
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Jan-27-12
| | chessgames.com: <WannaBe: Yeah, it's the zoom, I don't see it at 100% or 200%, but at 105% or 115% it is really obvious!> Hmmm! So that means that people who zoom at, say, 105% must see weird effects like that, on a lot of sites. I bet you'll find that the odds of any specific 1-pixel line showing up as 2-pixels are about 1 in 20. Even though it should effect many sites, you probably noticed it chiefly on Chessgames since (a) we make tables with small 1-pixel borders a lot, and (b) you spend so much time here. Anyhow, it's good that we figured out the cause of this. Live and learn. |
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| Jan-27-12 | | Thanh Phan: <SwitchingQuylthulg> and <chessgames.com> Thank you for explaining about Unicodes and the cause of the letter problem and solution for same |
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| Jan-27-12 | | hoodrobin: Domdaniel asks questions Chessgames answers. I thank you both. |
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| Jan-28-12 | | ughaibu: Somebody posted a game here: Kavalek vs Suttles, 1974 but apparently forgot to upload it. |
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| Jan-28-12 | | dakgootje: ah yes - zooming is the issue. Think I only zoom at this site though [that is: if I adjust, other sites do not change]. |
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| Jan-28-12 | | talisman: <chessgames> thanks for the games! |
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Jan-29-12
| | chessgames.com: Thanks ughaibu, it made a fine GOTD. |
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| Jan-29-12 | | Benzol: <chessgames> I see that you've not only uploaded the Sax - Kestler game but also a good many from the Queenstown Chess Classic too. Was it your intention to render a good many of my efforts to nought? If you look at the submission queue you'll see that this is so. LOL. :) |
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| Jan-29-12 | | Blunderdome: <Jan-29-12 Jim Bartle: "When Aronian needed a win in the previous round, he took his chances with Gelfand declining draw offer in an equal position and ultimately won." Bringing up again one of my pet peeves: why aren't draw offers included on scoresheets?> <Jan-29-12
parmetd: People have been complaining about that for years Jim - and no one has produced a suitable answer yet.> It was the first I heard of it -- but if anyone has a suitable answer I assume it would be you. |
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| Jan-30-12 | | timhortons: hello chessgames.com
do you mind covering the moscow open 2012?
links below.
http://open.moschess.ru/
http://www.chess.com/news/moscow-op... |
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Jan-31-12
| | chessgames.com: Hi Tim, we'll try to cover the Moscow open soon, after we address some PGN quality issues. Thanks for your patience. |
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| Jan-31-12 | | timhortons: thanks cg.
im sure theres alot of exciting chess getting played now in moscow open. russian chess is still the best! |
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Feb-01-12
| | chessgames.com: <pgn4web users>
Did you know that simply pressing "f" will flip the board, so Black is on the bottom? Did you know that "j" and "k" move to the previous/next move, for mouse-free viewing? We now have a Pgn4web Quickstart guide to help people with that popular choice of PGN viewer. |
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| Feb-02-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: <We saw posts in roughly three categories: complaining, posts about Giri-Aronian, posts about Carlsen-Nakamura. Sorting out which posts went to which game and then moving it appropriately was too much of a headache to even contemplate. And so we wiped it out, hoping to start from scratch with both games. Sorry.> I lost a bunch of posts in a couple of the games ... I wondered what had happened to them. |
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| Feb-02-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: I would seriously suggest that you:
A.) Remove the four posting guidelines.
or ... ... ...
B.) Start enforcing them. |
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| Feb-02-12 | | Colonel Mortimer: Learn some manners instead of "seriously suggesting". The customer is not always right, let alone a rude one. |
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