And why does it work? Because a PGN with a full set of headers is likely to come directly from some other reputable database. While the skimpy ones have possibly come via a book, magazine or DVD, with room for mistakes to creep in.

But you know this. And you wouldn't have posted the Hernandez Mystery here if all the usual avenues of enquiry weren't already exhausted. Innaresting.

Not sure if your memory is playing tricks on you or not, but here is a <cg> post from the 2nd or third page of this forum in response to an allegation that the game of the day was based on pun worthiness:

<<blingice: What's the criteria for choosing GOTD? Are there amusing game days and instructive game days?> Hopefully everything is instructive to some degree. I'm not sure if by "amusing game" you mean an amusing pun or the moves in the game are amusing. We have many different ways to find interesting games--game collections, Informant's picks, the Sacrifice Explorer, games recommended by notable GM's in books, etc. Sometimes we need a game to fit a pun. E.g. we recently celebrated Zhaoqin Peng incredible performance at the Dutch women's championship with the pun "March of the Peng Wins", even though we didn't have a specific game in mind. We went through all of her games from that event and picked a good one.>

As an aside whihc you might find amusing, here is one of the earliest posts from the first day the forum was opened:

<EmperorAtahualpa: <chessgames.com> I understand you are getting tired of spending time on moderating the Goldsby page. Therefore, would it be a good idea to give some volunteers the authority to become a moderator on this website? I am thinking here of long-standing members who take "kibitzing etiquette" seriously, such as <tpstar> for instance.

Care to share with me why you are swiftly effectuating premium accounts while deleting not only a few of my posts but more so not even responding to my "pronunciation" contributions via email?

It took me quite a bit of time to record and send the material.

He led a lynch mob against old <Bidfomona> for the crime of "spamming" his historical web page with links back to CG, whilst simultaneously hosting the longest off-topic discussion in CG.com history.

56,000 pages of his forum on the World Cup.

Happily, <Bidfomona> continues his fine chess history site, while <Emperor> has retired from the lists of epic spammers.

Here's the situation: if you give me ALL the games, not weeding out any duplicates beforehand, then in principle any games which are duplicates will automatically be ignored. So you can save yourself the trouble of removing duplicates.

However, suppose a game you give me is *almost* like a game we have on file, with an extra move at the end, or a transposition in the opening, or some other minor discrepancy. Then we wouldn't reject the new score. That's how "duplicate" games are born.

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I did attach a "clarification" in response back to your email. After I sent it, I went here to read your "point well taken plus apology" response, and initially felt my (email) response might be a bit "overdone", yet I'm glad I sent it as I did.

Again, thanks for both your responses.

We're here to "support", as the forum name indicates, and good to see it back in shape again.

The tournament name of the game R Garcia vs J A Rubinetti, 1972 (and presumably any others from that batch) still misspells <Argentinian> as <Argintean>. There are several optional adjectives and demonyms for Argentina, none of them being <Argintean>. If you want something legit that sounds like the latter, then maybe <Argentine> would work, although the first one - <Argentinian> - is generally accepted and used.

The May 15-27 tournament will draw federations from all over the region, including Australia, with up to US$10,000 in prize money. Federations will be represented by a men and women's team of four players and one reserve each. The winning teams will represent Asia in the 2013 World (and Women's) Team Championships.

After a little research, we found out that there is a new Java update, and because this update is flagged as a 'security update' there are some browsers (notably Firefox) that intentionally disable the old version until the new one is obtained.

Because of all this we added this urgent message to the homepage (you can't miss it)

<BREAKING NEWS: A few days ago, a new version of Java® was released. Some web browsers will no longer display our chess games until you install this update. If you do not see the chess board & pieces on our games pages, please visit www.java.com and install this update. It's easy to do, safe, and absolutely free. Thanks!>

I just wanted to say, we know that the statement is kind of ugly and "in-your-face" but we're going to leave that message up for maybe 48 hours or so. Hopefully that will straighten out a lot of people with this problem.

That should help you in pin-point the issue, I had no problem Tue/Wed, but you did not specify what time it (the connection problem) started/ended.