Depends partly on how much you are on the site presumably.

There is no logic to the notable games feature, because the games aren't picked. It's simply a list, in descending order, of the games of a certain player with the most kibbutzing on them by members. Quite literally, the only "notable" thing about these games is how many separate "notes" members have posted in the Kibbutz box.

The "picking" is programmed to be done automatically, no admin has to look at which games are which or what tournament they might come from.

To list notable tournaments (an excellent idea), somebody would have to do that by hand.

almost every detail in that post is wrong... ;-)

First of all, the number of kibitzes doesn't factor in anywhere; what matters is how many game collections a game features in. (For instance, the notable games of Edvins Kengis include Sadler vs E Kengis, 1997 and J Klovans vs E Kengis, 1990, neither of which has ever been kibitzed on!)

Secondly, I think <mockingbird> already knew the whole thing's automated :)

This section of Jessica's thesis is entirely accurate. If anything, it *underplays* some of the absurdities found in the 'event' field.

One have comments of also analysis of current games and future tournaments, other have comments of politic also economic activity same like his career of political or economical activity.

I'm active on that page, and like it. In general I can argue with the conservatives without it getting personal.

I think you put it nicely. As a regular user, I felt offended by the continuous exchange of insults. I hope all the temporarily suspended posters realize that a big part of the problem was offending all of us witnesses, not just the fact that they were at war with each other.

Now that you have taken action it is only appropriate that I renew my premium membership- which I have done.

How often is the "Hot Games" feature updated? Daily? Hourly? Other? Any of the above?

Also, just like we have a Pun Submission Page, is it possible to include a submission page for puzzles?

So Nakamura-Goldsby is notable because so many people have it in their games collection?>

Actually there is one other problem with the Rogoff page, that being that GM Rogoff is not a trivial player, and it's a shame that he's the one grandmaster who has virtually no discussion about chess on his page. Perhaps one day we can give GM Rogoff a real page that he so very much deserves, but for the time being we don't want to do away with our "lightning rod" (as twinlark calls it).

<benjinathan: I did not renew my premium membership because I felt that you did not take action on this and other issues. Now that you have taken action it is only appropriate that I renew my premium membership- which I have done.> Well thank you very much. I am sorry that you felt so disenfranchised that you let your membership lapse, but please believe me that at all times our #1 concern has been that people can use and enjoy Chessgames in the way that it was intended.

<tpstar: A big round of applause for <FSR> who uploaded all of our updates to the Wikipedia entry and finally eliminated that "additional citations" box up top.> Hey, that is really excellent! I'm reading over the article right now: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chessg...

<mockingbird: <chessgames.com> It would be great to have notable games from a tournament> You know, that's a really good idea. I don't know why we haven't thought of it earlier. As JFQ mentions we don't "pick" the games by an editorial board, but still there are ways we could quickly figure out which games are the ones that are getting all of the attention.

<Penguincw> <Two things: How often is the "Hot Games" feature updated?> If you must know, it refreshes at 11:39am, 3:39pm, and 11:39pm (EST). It might deserve to be recomputed a few extra times.

Right on Jim. The Rogoff site has reached almost 3,000 pages, and is has been one of the an invaluable outlets at this CG.com site. An odd "inappropriate" post is much less than a drop in the ocean. The Admins. I think, have been not only patient, but also realistic about it.

The same is, or should be, applicable to a number of "certain" other pages.

Two queries really. The first is that when a person settles in a country other than that of their birth, the menu asks for their nationality and identifies them as "citizens" of that country, which may not necessarily by the case, eg, a person can be a permanent resident without being a citizen.

I was wondering whether or not it might be worth while changing "citizen" to "resident", as the latter subsumes the former. You might even consider dispensing with both and simply identifying the federation with which a player is registered, using the same country names, although this might be difficult with players that played before FIDE and national federations were established.

Just a thought.

The second query is that in filling out the same fields for some players, especially historical players, the menu is inadequate to describe the countries in which they originated and sometimes lived. A good example is Wilhelm Steinitz who was born in the Kingdom of Bohemia which was within the Austrian Empire (and not Austria proper - think Britain vis a vis the British empire), but which later became part of Czechoslovakia and lately, the Czech Republic.

-Atm it's not possible to make visible that a player is deceased but the biographer doesn't know when he/she died. It would be handy if we can put 0000.00.00 into the 'Date deceased' field, and that it shows 'died ??'.