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| Jun-23-12 | | brankat: CG.com members/kibitzers (not trolls) have not forgotten <LMAJ>. On the contrary. Only yesterday I checked Nakamura, Phillips, and Davidson games. The pages were a pretty sad sight with the kibitzing areas closed. I would have liked to have an access to the Nakamura game commenting space, print out all 170 pages and publish a book: "The Joy of Chess Kibitzing". Would probably be a bestseller. Although I do miss the entertaining and educational activities which were taking place on Mr.Goldsby's games' pages, it is probably a good idea to leave things as they are. For a while longer. Until a new generation of members takes over the kibitzing around the site :-) |
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| Jun-23-12 | | hms123: <brankat> has it right: <Although I do miss the entertaining and educational activities which were taking place on Mr.Goldsby's games' pages, it is probably a good idea to leave things as they are. For a while longer. Until a new generation of members takes over the kibitzing around the site :-)
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| Jun-23-12 | | Open Defence: could someone guide me as to how i might gift someone a premium membership ? |
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Jun-23-12
 | | chancho: Here ya go: Gift Membership Page |
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Jun-23-12
 | | chessgames.com: <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.> 100% correct, there is no vote being conducted here. We are not going to delete the previous few messages but please do not make any further votes. |
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Jun-23-12
| | chessgames.com: We're taking out some of the trash here at CG, by getting the computers sort out the worst of the worst puns that have been submitted to our Pun Voting Booth over the years. These are puns that have received one star (the lowest rating) by several people. We're going to spare future generations the agony of having to even see these stinkers, and just remove them from the pool. But we're afraid that some obscure reference or something halfway funny may slip through and be unfairly executed. Therefore, before each criminal gets thrown to the lions, an admin has to give the "thumbs down". The ones we're zapping are hysterically poor quality. Most of them suffer from the fault of simply not being puns whatsoever, others are puns but so horrible that it's even below *our* standards. Just for laughs here are some examples. So you can see now, this is just a *taste* of the pain we're enduring so you don't have to ;-) Dzindzichashvili vs Kalandazichvili, 1967
A Vili Good Game
P Wurz vs A Kormann, 2005
What's the Wurz that Could Happen?
Wang Yue vs Radjabov, 2008
Every time a Bell Wangs
Barbero vs B Lund, 1987
These brettzels are making me thirsty
H Bohm vs Sax, 1976
Wham! Bohm! Thank you, Man!
K Junge vs C Kottnauer, 1942
Forever Young
Fressinet vs N Brunner, 2011
Imfressive
A Simutowe vs Nakamura, 2001
Chess Is All This, Is Multicultural ...
Yifan Hou vs Koneru, 2010
The A ball, Koneru Pocket.
Anand vs Christiansen, 1993
When Hip Hop Was Not Dead
Schmid vs E Bhend, 1953
Bhend Over
Chiburdanidze vs P Feustel, 1976
Maya's mate
F Harcet vs T Suc, 1996
You Suc
Kasparov vs Sting, 2000
Feeling the Sting
Alekhine vs A Popovic, 1930
A Hobbit's Tale: Here & Back Again?! neah - check & counter-mate! Spassky vs Bronstein, 1960
This Game Doesn't Have a Pun YET??
Kholmov vs Bronstein, 1965
Rather Cool Moves
Tal vs Simagin, 1956
Simagin him in to the ground
Schlechter vs W John, 1905
Schlechter Tastes Nectar!
C Sandipan vs P V Vishnu, 2009
Bishop Twins Powerrrrr - Activate!!
Keres vs Konstantinopolsky, 1948
The Konstant pawnquest of Alexander the Great
Pachman vs E Cobo Arteaga, 1964
Eldis the Peldis
Alekhine vs Vasic, 1931
Alekhine's Vasictomy
Karpov vs Anand, 1991
"Anatoli Karpov's Punch-Out!!" for NES |
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| Jun-23-12 | | I play the Fred: One of those is mine, and I wanted to take it back the moment my hand left the piece, so to speak. Thanks for the deletion. |
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Jun-23-12
 | | tpstar: <The ones we're zapping are hysterically poor quality. Most of them suffer from the fault of simply not being puns whatsoever, others are puns but so horrible that it's even below *our* standards.> A terrific idea, yet "Alekhine's Vasictomy" was quite inspired. ;>D |
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| Jun-23-12 | | hms123: Hey! I kind of like this one:
<What's the Wurz that Could Happen?> And it's not even mine. |
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Jun-23-12
| | chessgames.com: Here's some more. We have to stop doing this for today for the sake of our mental health. K Spraggett vs M Desautels, 1980
Enjoy your Spraggetti
B Bok vs Li Chao, 2010
Boooooock, Bok-Bok
D J Findlay vs Miles, 1970
Miles Gloriosus (glorious soldier with reference to the d pawn) Chigorin vs Steinitz, 1892
The king is a strong piece,Steinitz.Not so,Chigorin
J Friedman vs Gulko, 1993
Fried, Man
Judit Polgar vs Karpov, 2003
Women hates bishops
Adams vs Topalov, 2006
Toppled Admirably
T Hillarp Persson vs M Leon Hoyos, 2009
Big Cats Diary
K Spraggett vs Lim Yee Weng, 2002
Over the Limit, under arrest.
Fischer vs Benko, 1959
My memorable f6-square
Janowski vs Nimzowitsch, 1914
You cannot pass
Beliavsky vs Larsen, 1981
Do You Beliav in Miracles?
Carlsen vs Ivanchuk, 2011
Up Chuk
M Leskiewicz vs E Kahn, 1999
Can he win Evarth Kahn
Einstein vs Oppenheimer, 1933
You don't have to be Einstein
Sax vs E Hermansson, 2005
Playing the Saxophone
Schlechter vs A Kaufmann, 1916
The Rook at the Center of the Universe
Janowski vs Saemisch, 1925
Janow it's over when you sae it
D Boros vs Kotronias, 2008
Super Smashed Boros
J Schulten vs Morphy, 1857
Schulten Fish In A Barrel for Morphy
R Schulder vs S Boden, 1853
B-b-b-b-bod to the boden
E J Diemer vs Schickner, 1950
Snicker, Schickner
Castellvi vs Vinyoles, 1475
In 1475 Castvelli played the board alive
Oll vs A Galliamova, 1989
Bride of Chucky
Reti vs Capablanca, 1928
Get Reti for The Party! |
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Jun-23-12
| | tpstar: OK, this second group is pretty wretched. :P
1) If you really want to <spare future generations the agony of having to even see these stinkers>, don't delete them. Instead create a Pun Graveyard with these prime examples of what not to submit. This way we all wouldn't see the same bad eggs over again. Even better, we could compose a list of overused ideas: Tal/tall, Short/short, Bird/bird, Miles/miles etc. You could even create a kibitzing area for the Pun Graveyard to comment on the selections, and take credit if desired. 2) You held a Pun Contest in 2009 - how about a Worst Pun Contest now? Winners get three month memberships, of course. |
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Jun-23-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <tpstar> Winners of that contest should forfeit three months of membership. I've lost eight so far, but none made the two lists. Apparently I can't devise good bad puns either. |
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Jun-23-12
 | | LoveThatJoker: <Pun Graveyard> Most excellent idea, tpstar! LTJ |
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Jun-23-12
| | LoveThatJoker: <CG> One more idea, I have been considering is a chessgames.com Hall of Fame. I recognize that there is a 'Hall' for Chessbookie, but not one for the most famous/infamous CG kibitzers of all-time. That would be cool. Each inductee would have like a jersey with a number of their choosing retired on their individual member page. LTJ
PS. Furthermore, perhaps other members could be allowed to formally roast/congratulate the member like a real Hall of Fame induction! PPS. Perhaps every 6 months do a 'Class of 2 years'. For example, First induction = Class of '02/'03
<6 months after>
2nd induction = Class of '04/'05
<and so forth.>
Of course by 'Class of...', I'm referring to members who signed up to CG on those years. |
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| Jun-23-12 | | Shams: <LoveThatJoker> Your idea is for people who loved the Site Awards Controversy, but wished it were three hundred times larger. |
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| Jun-23-12 | | Benzol: <The ones we're zapping are hysterically poor quality. Most of them suffer from the fault of simply not being puns whatsoever, others are puns but so horrible that it's even below *our* standards.> That really says something. It almost sounds like a threat. :) |
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| Jun-23-12 | | brankat: <chessgames.com> Thank You so much for "The Selected Puns". The collection is priceless. <tpstar>'s idea of the Graveyard is brilliant. Perhaps the graveyard could be expanded to accommodate certain other (deleted) posts, too :-) |
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| Jun-23-12 | | Benzol: <the most famous/infamous CG kibitzers of all-time.> Now that really is a threat.
Do we really want to recall the horrors of <Marnof Mirlony>, <Slothrop>, <GMShirtlessrocketman> and <Steppenwolf>? My blood runs cold just thinking about it!
:) |
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| Jun-23-12 | | Benzol: <CG> Speaking about frightening have I actually cracked the 4000 games submission mark yet? |
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Jun-24-12
 | | WannaBe: <Benzol> You cracked the 4000 games submission back in Jan. of '02. Puns, I liked:
What's the Wurz that Could Happen?
The A ball, Koneru Pocket.
Alekhine's Vasictomy
Schulten Fish In A Barrel for Morphy |
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| Jun-24-12 | | dakgootje: Whahaha some of those are terrible!
Terrible in a good way :D
The graveyard actually sounds like a good idea |
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| Jun-24-12 | | frogbert: <chessgames.com> and others: i can explain the instances you observe of the jump to the #kibitzing-anchor not working properly with some clients (for certain pages - it doesn't always "not work"): almost any browser does <incremental rendering> of web pages these days. this means that the browser starts displaying the page as soon as it thinks it has downloaded enough of the html to format and present the partial page correctly. so, when a link has a hash-tag (ref to an anchor) and the anchor tag has been read (but not necessarily very much of the html below the anchor) it does the repositioning of the viewport (i.e. jumps to the anchor) *before* it has downloaded the entire page. this sometimes creates the same effect as if there were nothing more on the page, i.e. as if the anchor were at the bottom of the page. smarter browsers (or newer versions) avoid this bug related to incremental rendering in various ways, some good and some not so good. but in short, the phenomenon is a <browser bug> and not a bug in daniel's html. regardless, there might be ways to trick also the buggy browsers to do the right thing, but imho it's not worth the trouble. thanks for making this change, ceegee, i consider it a clear plus over the previous behaviour! :o) |
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| Jun-24-12 | | frogbert: btw, i think the workaround here might be pretty easy, daniel: if you put an empty div-tag around the anchor and the bottom of the kibitzing, it might fool buggy browsers to think it must read the entire contents of this vertical layout-box before it can start rendering it. hence all necessary html below the anchor will be read before the repositioning of the viewport. it might be worth a try! |
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| Jun-24-12 | | Blunderdome: <What's the Wurz that Could Happen?> Is my pun, and I thought it was OK. I've surely submitted some that were Wurz than that. |
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| Jun-24-12 | | MarkFinan: Well firstly... I think It would be a terrible Idea to allow kibitzing on Goldsby's games, because of so so many reasons I won't even mention one of them! But.... *No*, In answer to <Stonehenge>'s suggestion..
BTW <Stonehenge>, thanks for telling <achieve> what Iv'e wanted to tell him for the last 6 month ;) Oh, and a few pages back you guys were discussing a facebook style "like", or "thumbs up/down" feature on peoples kibitzing..
Although I see nothing wrong with giving someone a thumbs up, the thumbs down feature would be abused more than the Ignore option Is now!
An example..... A certain kibitzer, maybe a kibitzer with a title who's been frequenting this fine site for years, unexpectedly finds improvements In all Fischers games... If he's disliked by all, his posts would still get 50 "thumb downs" whatever the weather!!
It would turn the site Into a popularity contest, which would In turn breed cliques to form, and people just patting their friends on the back with one thumb, while stabbing someone yhey don't like in the back with the other! (those thumbs can be sharp ;) )
So bad Idea, the sites just fine as It Is right now, excluding a few player pages I don't even need to mention.. |
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