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| Jun-21-12 | | Blunderdome: How many player pages are there on CG? I don't think I've seen that figure anywhere. |
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Jun-21-12
 | | chessgames.com: Almost 70,000--but surely there are some duplicates in there. |
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| Jun-21-12 | | I play the Fred: Just as the <Fischer-Karpov> match has its own page, so should the <Kasparov-Shirov> match. |
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| Jun-21-12 | | Blunderdome: I don't think there's any need for a page when no games were played. The reason Fischer - Karpov is an exception is that the title changed hands. |
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| Jun-21-12 | | MORPHYEUS: Dear Chessgames, congratulations for running a great site. Would like to know when are you planning to offer Premium membership on a monthly basis like the other chess sites? Some people have special needs, like me, i can only use about half of the 12 months membership. |
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| Jun-22-12 | | YouRang: <WannaBe: I think the #kibitzing tag needs to be moved further down in the code of the page. I am getting 3/4 page of the past kibitz'n (forum) list, and the bottom 1/4 of my web page is displaying forums banner. Then I have to scroll down a bit to see the actual kibit'n. (Using IE 9)> Same here.
However, if I click on the <chessforum↓> link at the top of a chessforum page, it jumps to the right place. I would have thought that the <Earlier Kibitzing> and <Later Kibtizing> would go to the same anchor? |
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| Jun-22-12 | | YouRang: Hmmm, I see that it does go to the same anchor -- that is, a URL that specifies a page number and the "#kibitzing" appendage. It's just that when I enter such a URL, it goes to the right place if I'm already on the page I want to visit. That is, where the "chessforum" banner (just above the "Earlier Kibitzing" link) is at the *top* of the screen. However, if I enter a URL with a different page number than the one I'm on (and #kibitzing), it takes me to the page such that the "chessforum" banner is at the *bottom* of the screen -- meaning that I have to scroll down to see the kibizting. |
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Jun-22-12
| | chessgames.com: <YouRang / Thanh Phan> I have a hunch you're both witnessing the same problem, which unfortunately we haven't been able to reproduce here. Do you both use MSIE 9? <I play the Fred: Just as the <Fischer-Karpov> match has its own page, so should the <Kasparov-Shirov> match.> We tend to agree with <Blunderdome> on this one: as a rule, tournaments should have games, otherwise where will it end? Lasker was involved in negotiations for a dozen matches all of which fell through--surely you don't suggest we make pages for each one of those as well. I don't want to say we'll *never* have a Kasparov-Shirov page, and it's not an awful idea, but for right now there are much bigger priorities. |
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| Jun-22-12 | | YouRang: <chessgames.com: <YouRang / Thanh Phan> I have a hunch you're both witnessing the same problem, which unfortunately we haven't been able to reproduce here. Do you both use MSIE 9?> I am, yes.
FWIW, I tried using Opera, where it worked okay. Microsoft isn't famous for being a team player. |
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Jun-22-12
 | | Annie K.: Opera rulez! :)
<YouRang: <kibitzing appendage>> And to think it used to be called "a finger"... oh, the implications! :s ;p |
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| Jun-22-12 | | YouRang: <Annie K.: <YouRang: <kibitzing appendage>> And to think it used to be called "a finger"... oh, the implications! :s> So true. However, if you consider the implications of specifying a URL address that gives "the finger", you might see why <kibitzing appendage> is preferred. ;-) |
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Jun-22-12
| | Annie K.: <YouRang> I *did* consider them... ;) |
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| Jun-22-12 | | YouRang: <Annie K.: <YouRang> I *did* consider them... ;)> Ah. Had I used my cerebral appendage, I might have realized that. :-\ |
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Jun-22-12
| | chessgames.com: <MORPHYEUS> <Dear Chessgames, congratulations for running a great site.> Thank you very kindly. <Would like to know when are you planning to offer Premium membership on a monthly basis like the other chess sites? Some people have special needs, like me, i can only use about half of the 12 months membership.> This gets into a complex subject but it's been a while since it's come up, so let me say a few words on it. I can't say we'll never offer monthly rates, but there is logic behind why we don't. Here are just a few points: (1) Credit card processing companies scrape an awful lot off the top of each transaction. When somebody pays us $US 29.00 we end up with $US 28.25 or so, more or less. We don't like it, but very well, it's the cost of doing business: about 1-3%. The problem is, that when you charge only a few dollars, suddenly it's not 1-3% but more like 15-25%. Ouch! Whether Chessgames passes that cost onto the customer or not, one thing is for sure: the only real winner in that scenario is the credit-card company. It's in our mutual best interest to perform as few card transactions as possible. (2) If we charge by the month it will necessarily be a recurring charge. It has always been our policy to NEVER automatically charge anybody for anything. We think that's the most forthright way to do business and our customers appreciate it. (3) By not having recurring charges we have perfect security. In a nightmare scenario where hackers had the entire Chessgames database, they'd discover that there are no financial details anywhere to be found. We don't even keep track of our member's real names! We don't log it, we don't store it, once the charge goes through we even wipe it out of the computer's short-term RAM memory. That's one less headache to worry about. (4) Does it really make sense to be a member for only 30 days? To pick an avatar only to see it go back to the pool in a month? To start a discussion on your chessforum, only to see it vanish in a month? (5) Finally, we like to believe that our rate of $29/year ("less than 8 cents a day" as our ads say) is so very reasonable that even if you only use it for part of the year, you still get your money's worth. |
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Jun-22-12
| | Annie K.: <cg: <(4) Does it really make sense to be a member for only 30 days? To pick an avatar only to see it go back to the pool in a month? To start a discussion on your chessforum, only to see it vanish in a month?>> I can see one reason for it: new members, who may want to actually experience the privileges of Premium Membership for themselves, before deciding to invest in a "long-term" membership. New members at any site tend to be notoriously skittish about "diving in headfirst", so the ability to try out just one month first might be an option that could help them decide to go ahead. Many may go Premium permanently after a one-month trial. :) |
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| Jun-22-12 | | crawfb5: <Annie> True. I think one reason behind the 3-month premium memberships for the Holiday Clues Hunt is to try to give some a taste of what it's like, although it's not so easy to win one. Maybe a "Full Access Day" along with some advertisement leading up to it every once in a while might be worth considering as a way to entice people to upgrade. |
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Jun-22-12
 | | WannaBe: Full access on Feb. 30th of leap year that is divisible by 500. |
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| Jun-23-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: Any chance of re-opening my games for kibitzing, ('?') for now the trolls seem to have completely forgotten about me. |
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Jun-23-12
 | | Stonehenge: <LMAJ> *No* |
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| Jun-23-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: Thankfully - you don't get to make that decision, nor do you run this site. |
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Jun-23-12
| | Stonehenge: <LMAJ> Let's hope that more members of this site answer your question. The only thing they have to do is answer either: <LMAJ> *No*
or <LMAJ> *Yes*
We will see. |
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Jun-23-12
 | | moronovich: <LMAJ> *No* |
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| Jun-23-12 | | achieve: <stonehenge> To make this subject to/of a vote is beyond the pale, and D Freeman is indeed, as it should, the one making the decision. Trying to influence him and even setting up some sort of vote which will potentially clutter up and completely ruin this forum and its purpose is akin to the mess we had on those gamepages. No more "troops". Don't feed, lead by example. |
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Jun-23-12
| | Stonehenge: <achieve> You *really* are an arrogant prick at times, aren't you? |
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| Jun-23-12 | | achieve: May I ask why, dear stone?
Aren't you calling on members to participate on a vote on this page? I object to that for to me obvious reasons and you have the nerve to call me an <arrogant> prick? I'm simply saying to you don't do that, do not FLAME, and let Daniel handle this. The opposite of "arrogant".
Goodday, hansworst. |
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