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| Mar-30-12 | | twinlark: Also, your POTD was from a game played during the Argentinian (spelt "Argintean") Championship 1972. |
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| Mar-31-12 | | MarkFinan: <chessgames.com> On your guess the move feature, i get say 15 moves deep and then i'll get a message that says "Error.. Bad game request", and if i try go back a page to guess the move again it won't let me play... Im on a phone, so im typing the moves manually, but im doing as instructed i.e e4xe5+... Is this because im using a phone? I dont understand! |
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Mar-31-12
 | | WannaBe: Do you remember which game you were doing? I wonder if it's just that specific game, or all games done through a smart phone. |
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| Mar-31-12 | | MarkFinan: Smyslov v Euwe.. But it wasn't just one game, its happened a few times. |
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Mar-31-12
 | | Peligroso Patzer: As I just noted in a post here: Ekaterina Korbut, the bio on Ms. Korbut's page neglects to mention that she was 2006 Russian Women's Champion. Her bio should be updated to include this achievement. She has apparently retired from tournamernt play (having no games in the database since 2008). |
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Mar-31-12
 | | Tabanus: <cg> Perhaps http://img0.liveinternet.ru/images/... to be put on Joel Fridlizius 's page. And Jakovleva - pretty please? |
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Mar-31-12
| | WannaBe: <Peligroso Patzer> Biogra. Bistro might be a better forum for that, if I am using my phone, I'd copy/paste that link for you... Did <Tabanus> get a new spider?? |
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Mar-31-12
| | WannaBe: <CG> I have Android v. 2.2.2 and I played a guess.the move game, scored 19 pts. Did not experience any issues, except one. On the link, that lets you customize the board colour, if you select it, you get 404, because the link have /perl/perl where as only one /perl is needed. |
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| Apr-01-12 | | twinlark: <ceegee>
I assume you're using the FIDE database - specifically FIDE player cards - to update player's ratings. By the same token, for want of a better word, would it be possible to autofill players' bios from the same database to include other key info besides their ratings, eg: country, year of birth, title, and even the player card itself? There's quite a lot of information just on the facing page. |
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| Apr-01-12 | | King Death: <whiteshark: Todays quote of the Day
<No fool can play chess, and only fools do.> is definitely <not <!>> a German saying...> This recovering fool raises his hand, it's been more than 20 years since I last played. <chessgames.com: ...Either way, it's food for thought :)> For sure. |
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Apr-01-12
| | WannaBe: Since it is not Duetch, can I claim it as Chinese?? Please? |
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| Apr-01-12 | | twinlark: This game was played in the Argentinean Championships that I referred to earlier: R Garcia vs J A Rubinetti, 1972 |
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| Apr-01-12 | | Karpova: <chessgames.com>
When I prepare a pgn-file with the Rubinstein games from the 2nd edition of 'Volume 2: The Later Years', shall I sent you the whole file and you could easily pick out the games missing from the database or would a pgn-file containing the missing games only be more convenient? |
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Apr-01-12
 | | kingscrusher: Hi Chessgames.com
Sometimes I think the current "Game of the day" is a bit wasted. The last few days seem to be very obscure and blunderful games with some entertainment value. I think if you just stuck with high profile games - like Fischer or Kasparov or Carlsen, etc (any world champion would do really or contender for World champion) or games that are featured at least 2 or 3 times in different member collections, there would be more people commentng and sharing the game of the day. You could even have the now bog-standard row of social media sharing devices with the Game of the day - but make the "Game of the day" worth sharing in the first place - and by picking high profile games, I think that community highlighting of the GOTD will have more benefit and more comments and interaction. Also more games are likely to be added to game collections where the spotlight was put on them through GOTD. And of course, I would be more motivated to do videos of the better more interesting GOTD's. Best wishes
K |
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Apr-01-12
| | kingscrusher: Regarding my last post - except today of course - the GOTD is very appropriate for today. I mean the days other than today!. My great timing as usual for suggestions. Haha :) |
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Apr-01-12
 | | Domdaniel: <kingscrusher> I agree that GOTD could use some tweaking, but think it would be disastrous to restrict it to the Fischer/Kasparov/Carlsen set. If nothing else, that would exclude all those great games where 'ordinary' masters played out of their skins. It depends, maybe, what one thinks GOTD is *for*. It inevitably generates less posting than the daily puzzle -- but this may not be a good indicator of the actual traffic. It's quite possible that many people look at the GOTD without feeling the need to add their own thoughts or analysis. I'm happy with a mixture of classics, good games by little-known players, recent crunch encounters, etc. As long as the quality is good, it doesn't matter to me who the players are. Personally, I'd like to see more games with high-class analysis. Where older (pre-1920?) games are concerned, there must be a lot of out-of-copyright GM analysis floating around out there. It would be good to see more of it uploaded/submitted, maybe along with contemporary engine analysis. |
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Apr-01-12
 | | chessgames.com: <kingscrusher> I can appreciate what you're saying. We sometimes are guilty of picking games that only look moderately interesting just because one of the names lends to some sort of wordplay. However, I have to object to your disparaging the past few days. I think this week has really been very good. Yesterday's "Killing Two Birds with One Stonewall" (Bird vs J Mason, 1876) was not only a brilliant pun submitted by a reader but also a very entertaining 19th century game. Like most brilliant GOTDs it was submitted by a user at the Pun Submission Page page. However, I do know what you are talking about. I agree, we sometimes have GOTDs that might have a slightly witty pun, but the chess is so unremarkable that if you used our Random Game Feature you're bound to find a better one. The way I see it, sticking to user submissions is our safest bet. At least in that case, if people say it stinks, we can disavow responsibility. |
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Apr-01-12
| | kingscrusher: Hi Chessgames.com
The reason really I am bring this up, is that I am actually becoming very interested recently myself in how to encourage people to have a look at my older videos rather than the latest ones. The "Game of the Day" concept can also be applied to videos, etc. It seems in Chess, people already often have their favourite players - most likely in our current passage through time right now - Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen for example. This may change in say 10 years time. If you check this Wiki page out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipe... You will also see here, a regular daily interest from a Wiki perspective in Fischer, Kasparov, Carlsen on that list. This is independent of any interface to Wiki - I think people on either Wiki, Chessgames, or Youtube try and find chess stuff relating to their favourite players. Now actually I have never been that disappointed by the Game of the Day - for example the Kitchlew game recently was really good fun. But it seems to me that perhaps tapping into knowledge of people's favourite players could be useful maybe for separate "game of the days" - maybe a "World champion game of the Day", or an "Uncrowned king game of the day" - e.g. Korchoi, Larsen, etc. Just some thoughts anyway - it is interesting to see how past games can be highlighted in various ways. |
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Apr-01-12
| | chessgames.com: Can anybody figure out which of these two scores is likely to make the most sense? R Hernandez vs Kasparov, 1979
vis-a-vis
Hernandez vs Kasparov, 1979
An entire set of moves is omitted in one version. The reason why I ask is that Guess-the-Move is on *both* games so we have to be very careful which one we put in the backup table. |
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Apr-01-12
 | | Phony Benoni: Just to quickly orient everyone on <chessgames.com>'s question, the difference comes after <18...Nbd3>:
click for larger viewR Hernandez vs Kasparov, 1979 has White play <19.e5> immediately, while Hernandez vs Kasparov, 1979 interpolates <19.Bxd3 Nxd3> first. Before and after that point, the scores are identical. The conclusion was: <19/20.e5 dxe5 20/21.fxe5 Bxe5 21/22.Bh6 Rfb8 (22...Bg7) 22/23.Qf3 f5 23/24.g4 Rxb2 24/25.gxf5 Qxc3 25/26.fxg6 Qd4+> 0-1 I see no definite indication one way or another. Computer evaluations are altered, but not enough to make a truly significant difference. If I had to make a choice, I would take the shorter version with Hernandez's full name. Also, there are some lines where Black could consider checking on the a2-g1 diagonal had it been opened by the extra move 19.Bxd3 Nxd3. But those are very faint and inconclusive. |
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Apr-01-12
| | chessgames.com: <If I had to make a choice, I would take the shorter version with Hernandez's full name.> There's a valuable rule of thumb that the Librarian learned long ago: all other things being equal, go with the one that has nicer headers. Works 90% of the time :) |
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| Apr-02-12 | | King Death: In the Hernandez-Kasparov game question, I found a source that gives
the game continuation with the capture on move 19 and a second source that gives 2 games. In game 1 White plays 19.Bd3, in the other he doesn't and otherwise the play's the same. |
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| Apr-02-12 | | Karpova: <cg.com> I know you probably answered my question long ago but since I can't search for kibitzing, I opted for asking again because if a separate file would be more convenient, I should start with it soon. |
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| Apr-02-12 | | Blunderdome: <We sometimes are guilty of picking games that only look moderately interesting just because one of the names lends to some sort of wordplay. > Some of us prefer some entertaining wordplay to a good game. Look at it this way: everyone who sees the homepage sees the pun, but not everyone sees the game. |
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| Apr-02-12 | | Jim Bartle: chessgames is being a bit disingenuous about the selection of the Game of the Day. A few years ago a reader wrote, "Sometimes I think you think of the pun more than the quality of the game." Chessgames replied along the lines of, "That is simply untrue. We ALWAYS choose the Game of the Day based first on the pun." |
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