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Apr-27-12
 | | Stonehenge: <What's more important: finding aliens in Alpha Centauri, or finding a move that Capablanca overlooked? Get real!> Most important is, of course, finding aliens who have found a move that Capablanca overlooked. |
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| Apr-27-12 | | MarkFinan: <JW> Would this comment offend you..... <Go on then JW, tell me what score you got and what your report was, and I'll tell you mine??> This trying to get on with people, and being friendly Malarky Is'nt all It's made out to be!
If i didn't laugh at how pathetic it was, I'd say he was a big baby for coming to this page complaining because the little smiley man at the GTM page kept looking at him open mouthed over some of his moves lol ;) |
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Apr-27-12
 | | Annie K.: <chessgames.com: <What's more important: finding aliens in Alpha Centauri, or finding a move that Capablanca overlooked? Get real!>> Yeah, this is obvious!!!!1! :D |
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| Apr-27-12 | | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
Here's the PGN page for the Karposh Open held this month in Skopje: http://ratings.fide.com/view_games..... It had about 30 GMs including Kiril Georgiev (who won), and loads of IMs and FMs. Some of its games may be worthy of addition to your database. BTW, how's it coming along for the 4th IberoAmerican? |
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| Apr-27-12 | | AylerKupp: <hms123> You're amazing, thanks. Obviously not a new wish/problem and I'm glad that others, including <chessgames.com>, have looked at the issue in the past. Hopefully they will revisit the kibitzing module in the not too distant future. And, personally, I think that it's time that people who have their character size set very large get magnifying glasses instead. ;-) And, <chessgames.com>, remember Ralph Waldo Emerson's quote: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." Live long and prosper and thanks for all the fish. |
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| Apr-27-12 | | JoergWalter: <What's more important: finding aliens in Alpha Centauri, or finding a move that Capablanca overlooked? Get real!> ok, start the engines and boldly go ... |
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| Apr-27-12 | | AylerKupp: <chessgames.com> Please see my message in the Thematic Challenge Team Black 2012 forum. |
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| Apr-27-12 | | Alien Math: Asian Continental Chess Championship 2012 - Open Standard chess | SCHEDULE 4-14 May, 2012 http://www.vietnamchess.com.vn/inde... List of players: http://www.vietnamchess.com.vn/inde... Many countries to attend, possible many surprises. http://www.thethaohcm.com.vn/show.a... |
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| Apr-28-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: <<Just my opinion: Somebody needs to invent an app that let's people donate their CPU cycles for this project, akin to the SETI screensaver. What's more important: finding aliens in Alpha Centauri, or finding a move that Capablanca overlooked? Get real!>> You send over any game ... I will analyze it for you ... gladly ... |
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Apr-28-12
 | | chessgames.com: <MarkFinan: On GTM, the last time I checked i had 9 "Outstanding" reports, but now I only have 6!! My whole report for the 54 games I've played so far was "average", yet now, without playing another game, my report now reads as "Good"!!! I'm guessing my "Outstanding" reports dropped because other users played the game and raised the par level, but that doesn't explain how overall my reports have gone up to "Good"?> Maybe somebody played some other games and lowered their pars. I'm guessing you've been playing games in which you're among the first to take it, which means your scores could be particularly sensitive to that kind of thing. But that is good--we need people to break in the lesser played ones. About your other query, please ask that via email. |
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Apr-28-12
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <cg> While we're on the topic of Guess-the-Move, congrats on reaching 10,000 games processed! :) |
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Apr-28-12
 | | Peligroso Patzer: Here is an interesting game (won by a player nearly 400! points lower-rated than his well-known opponent) that you may want to include in your database. Capucci,Marcos (2229) - Howell,David (2611) [A30]
BCF-chT 1011 (4NCL) England (5.11), 19.02.2011
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 Bg7 4.e3 0–0 5.Be2 b6 6.0–0 Bb7 7.c4 c5 8.Nc3 e6 9.d4 a6 10.dxc5 bxc5 11.Qd6 Qa5 12.Rad1 Rd8 13.Ng5 h6 14.Na4 Rc8 15.Bf3 Bxf3 16.Nxf3 Ra7 17.Qe7 Qc7 18.Be5 Qb7 19.Nxc5 Qb4 20.Bxb8 Rxb8 21.Qd6 Rb6 22.Qe7 Rb8 23.Ne5 Rf8 24.Nc6 dxc6 25.Qxa7 Qa3 26.Qb6 a5 27.Qxc6 Qxa2 28.Qa4 Qb2 29.Qxa5 Kh7 30.Qd2 Qe5 31.Qd4 Qb8 32.Qd6 Qa8 33.Ra1 Qc8 34.Ra7 Ne8 35.Qb6 Nf6 36.Rd1 e5 37.Nd7 Rd8 38.Nxf6+ Bxf6 39.Rxf7+ Kg8 40.Rxd8+ 1–0 The above game was briefly analyzed by IM Malcolm Pein here:
http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/malcolm... Marcos Capucci, who currently has no games in your database, is a master from Brazil. |
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Apr-28-12
| | chessgames.com: About the Iberoamericana, if anybody can find something resembling PGN from the official site (or any site) we'd appreciate it. http://fibda.com/iberoamericano/par... |
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Apr-28-12
| | chessgames.com: <SwitchingQuylthulg: congrats on reaching 10,000 games processed!> Oh I hadn't realized. Thank you all for helping us pick and process them! |
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| Apr-28-12 | | MarkFinan: <SwitchingQ> Yes, thanks for the help with GTM, I use It all the time and find it really, really helpful :) |
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| Apr-28-12 | | crawfb5: <chessgames.com: About the Iberoamericana, if anybody can find something resembling PGN from the official site (or any site) we'd appreciate it.> TWIC download #911 has just over 100 games from rounds 1-5. Presumably the remaining games will be in #912, available in a few days. |
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Apr-29-12
| | chessgames.com: The maintenance we performed the other day worked so very well that we took the server offline for about 45 minutes this morning to rebuild the rest of the tables. We apologize for the inconvenience, but hopefully this should enable us to run as fast and efficiently as possible for the heavy traffic we expect during the month of May. Thanks for your patience! |
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Apr-29-12
| | chessgames.com: <TWIC download #911> Thanks! |
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| Apr-29-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Fischer - vs. - Larsen
Match 1971
This is a famous FIDE Candidates match. (Fischer won, 6-0.) It should have its own page. Also, all the games are a mess, every page has a different looking header. |
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| Apr-29-12 | | Whitehat1963: I'm probably not the first person to suggest this, but would it be better not to list the names of the players in the daily puzzle? I suspect seeing the names provides some people with a cue to remembering the position. Also, it might make for a nice surprise to see that you've solved a puzzle that turns out to have been derived from, say, a Kasparov-Karpov, Anand-Kramnik, or Fischer-Spassky championship match game. |
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| Apr-29-12 | | eightbyeight: What was the 10 000th Guess-the-Move game to be added? I can't believe I missed it! |
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| Apr-29-12 | | Blunderdome: <Stonehenge> I'm still trying to find aliens that Capablanca overlooked! |
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Apr-30-12
 | | Domdaniel: <Re: Alpha Centauri>: SETI@home, the international search for signals of extraterrestrial origin, is just the most well-known of many projects which seek to use distributed processing - in particular the spare capacity of domestic computers - to solve problems. There are many mathematical projects, searching for digits of pi, Mersenne primes, and more arcane stuff. Also many exist to assist molecular engineering. But even in the chess arena, there is already a distributed project to work out opening theory for chess960 and/or fischerrandom. A reasonably comprehensive list is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... The efforts put in here by teams playing in World/CG-vs-GM games obviously share many of the hallmarks of distributed processing projects. I support any such project to further the CG cause, whether by tidying up the database or processing games for features like guess-the-move. But I suppose somebody has to build a non-destructive troll-proof interface first. Meanwhile, my contacts in Alpha Centauri tell me that the folks there have their Capablanca emulator up and running, and will start to transmit moves soon. By subspace radio, to avoid the c-lag problem. ;) |
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Apr-30-12
| | chessgames.com: <benjinathan: Dear <cg> I tried to blow the whistle on ****** for various rants at the Anand/Gelfand page, but when I tried to submit the form it came up with the message "NO such user ******" ... > First of all, please don't call out people by name for whistle violations. If we allow that, some members will use it as a kind of condoned insult. Anyhow, after some testing, I can't find anything wrong. Perhaps you just didn't type it correctly; perhaps adding a space where there is none? If you want to test it yourself feel free to submit another whistle; no big deal. The good news is that we received other complaints, probably over the same issue, and we've taken action. |
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| Apr-30-12 | | benjinathan: <cg> thks and sorry. I always figured that if I was going to blow the whistle I should at least be honest and open about it. I don't know what happened since I cut and pasted the name. But no need to figure it out I guess. thanks for the fast response. |
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