It reminds me a little of the story from Casablanca, where Humphrey Bogart personally set up a position from a correspondence game he was playing, only to see a stage-hand knock over the pieces and replace them on ridiculous squares.

Anyhow assuming Jovanovic-Manzardo is a legitimate game then sure, it deserves inclusion, even if the legend of it being Silman's inspiration is apocryphal. It would make a cute daily puzzle if nothing else.

Ouch... :\

The game seems legit, I just found it in the 365chess.com database: http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gi...

I reckon that link is worth a bio mention, as I have posted it, years ago, to a mostly lay audience, and it got quite enthusiastic responses. Anything that can interest people in chess, without involving political rants, drunk GMs fighting, or, um, toilets... can't be bad! :D

(Note to self: type slips faster.) ;)

<FIDE player card [...] Anyhow, we'll figure something out. It's a very important link and perhaps should get higher placement than the "let-me-google-that-for-you link">

<Ain't nothin' simple when you're doin' it for real.> -- William "gus" Baird

Too bad we didn't slate it for today as it would have gone perfectly with our live game today McShane vs Kramnik, 2012.

The story is, that "gus" Baird was Daniel Freeman's favorite college professor at Georgia Tech. His experience as a computer technician for the military made him part drill sergeant, part computer hacker, and pure class. He used to tell the freshmen how we had it so easy with our hard drives and compilers, and how in his day you'd program in assembler on punch cards, or even write raw machine code in hexadecimal off the top of their heads.

The name "gus" was never capitalized, because it was short for Augustus, in which the "g" is lowercase. (You know what a big-deal those Unix guys make over case sensitivity.)

Heh! That quote is a nice way to commemorate him. :)

Here are some examples:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/p/toy...

http://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-...

This delay is already well known to the super-admins like the CG Librarian. For example, when she moves some games from one Ivanov to another, the win percentage does not change instantly. Likewise, after Magnus's win today his statistics aren't instantly changed. Those headers are computed and cached away by a program that runs in the wee-hours of the morning. If you come back tomorrow you'll see that his stats may have changed a bit, but it's not instant.

The reason to want to do it this way is one of software efficiency considerations: so that when people pull up Carlsen's page the software doesn't have to compute his favorite openings for the millionth time that day.

To make matters more complex, we also have a concept of "minor players" vs "major players" which simply has to do with the number of games. I want to stress it has nothing to do with how good or poor of a player they were--for example, "NN" is a major player, while Captain Evans is a "minor" player. That doesn't mean Captain Evans was a patzer, it just means we don't have many games for him, and therefore we do NOT precompute a cached header. The technical point to this distinction is that with minor players it's no longer worth the administrative overhead to create a cache file for them, it's actually more efficient to compute their statistics on the fly every time their page is loaded.

Oh, and did I mention, the delay is not always 24 hours? Every night the software works on recomputing headers, but if it finds that there has been too many mass changes, it tends to the highest rated players first and leaves the rest for the next night. So in theory it could take a as long as week for a low rated player to see an update to his header. Very unlikely, but possible.

<FIDE.com player card>

<fide.com player card>

<fide.com card>

<FIDE player card>

<FIDE card>

<fide.com>

or something else?

Note that it is a priority to us that the end-user is perfectly aware that clicking this link will cause them to leave Chessgames. That's why the ".com" is somewhat important to us. We're not one of these sites that prohibits linking to other sites but we don't want to steer confused readers in the direction of fide.com for no reason at all.

Furthermore Taylor is a "minor player" (no offense Richard) and therefore the delay factor has nothing to do with his case.

Now, if the new rating list came out, Richard would be correctly identified and our record on him would be updated with a current FIDE rating. Then the link would appear and everything would be kosher. But as things stand we have the data and are hiding it.