Dave I don't think there is any secret about it. It was also something I just noticed about 10 minutes ago. Anyway like you I will go through the tournament collections I have and update accordingly. This might take a bit of time, however. I may be able to help <suenteus po> as well.

The Chessgames Editor Guide (formerly called the "Player Editor FAQ") has a new section about the new feature, in which CG editors can modify date & round information on the fly.

To answer Phony's question about the zeros preceding round numbers: Honestly, we never really thought about it. It's a little bit abnormal, and we want to be consistent, so let's leave out preceding zeros. No need to scold anybody for putting them in, so I think it's best if the software just silently removes them.

About round numbers: we don't want to get too fancy here. I know some tournaments demand things like "14.5" but for the most part we just want ordinary integers, sometimes with *one* decimal point. I don't believe the field should allow you to use letters or other symbols.

We haven't even gotten to the best part yet: believe it or not, this feature is integrally related to a discussion we were having here not long ago about opening up kibitzing on historical tournament pages. You see, we want to do that, but there is a glaring problem: the sort order of the games on most old tournaments is utterly pell-mell. This is simply because round and date information is hard to come by with the older games. If we had the dates, everything would sort itself perfectly, just like modern tournaments do.

So what this means is that the finishing touches now need to be placed on precious resources like (just to pick one at random) Game Collection: Hastings 1895. Once we get the dates and rounds, we'll be almost ready to launch pages dedicated to historical events. Over time, these pages may even have photos and articles sort of like our History of the World Chess Championship feature--but for starters, we'll just be happy if we can get the rounds in the right order.

We will summarize these changes and plans for future expansion in the Biographer Bistro soon, but for the time being that's the idea.

Thanks for everybody's help!

And thanks to everybody else involved as well (I can see from the logfiles that so many of you are making changes devotedly.) It will be great to be able to discuss some of these historical tournaments on their own pages.

<Shams> brings up a good point, but fear not--I think there's an easy way to give credit where credit is due. If you notice, our WCC pages like Euwe-Alekhine World Championship Rematch (1937) have a small link at the bottom that reads (say)

<Reference: game collection Game Collection: WCC Index [Euwe-Alekhine 1937]>

Probably sounds trivial after this incredibly useful and important feature, but could you include a couple of more variables for editors to update: to wit, the score sheet ratings of players in games played after 1971 or 1975?

That sure is entertaining!

As another example, the games in Game Collection: 1946 Denker-Steiner match are listed here (and in other online databases) as from a <playoff> match. However, this match was played May 1946 and the 1946 tournament was Oct-Nov 1946. In the 1946 tournament, neither Denker nor Steiner finished anywhere near Reshevsky, who took clear first over Kashdan by 2.5 points. Denker had won the 1944 championship and the May 1946 match was a challenge match with Steiner with the understanding the winner would hold the title until the tournament in the fall.

I had been hoping that, once <chessgames.com> had a collection of games, they could do some sort of magic batch change to fix everything at once.

Indeed. I am hoping <chessgames> will make the call on what to name the tournaments and events. For "International Tournament" I would prefer "Intl Tt" but that's just me.

What should be recorded for site in a case like that is difficult. Will being historically accurate make it appear that more than one event had taken place? And what of events like Hastings that span two years?

It's like this: if we look at our logfiles over the past 15 minutes, we see 872 different I.P. addresses. Now we know that it's not quite true that "one IP address = one web surfer" but it's *mostly* true so we'll pretend it is for our purposes.

Now, out of those 872 different users, how many are actually registered members of and signed-in right now? 89.

One question that comes to mind is "Who are these other 783 web surfers?" Don't they realize how much more fun CG is when you can make game collections and kibitz? But there are many explanations. Here are a few:

• Maybe they just cruised in from searching "Magnus Carlsen" in Google. Believe it or not, not everybody knows about CG.

• Maybe it's a web spider, either a legitimate one or a "rogue" spider.

• somebody with an account who isn't currently signed-in

• Lots of people are "lurkers" who use Chessgames but never thought it necessary to actually make an account.

The last category is probably the biggest. 10% is actually very high for most websites of our format. Most people are lurkers, and probably always will be.

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