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| Jul-06-12 | | AylerKupp: <chessgames.com> A special permission request. In the current Thematic Challenge I am maintaining a spreadsheet for Team Black containing our analyses to date (a poor man's database), and I periodically upload the spreadsheet file to RapidShare and post the link in the team area, where only Team Black members can see it. User <YouRang> suggested that I post the link in the Sticky where it is more easily available. Well, you know what happened when I tried to do so; I got a message indicating that special permission was required to post links outside of chessgames.com. Therefore I'm requesting "special permission" to do so. If you would like I can send you either the RapidShare link to the spreadsheet or the spreadsheet itself so that you can verify that it doesn't contain anything offensive, but it needs to be done in a quasi-secure manner since we obviously don't want all those finks from Team White to see what we are up to. And, of course, it changes periodically as analyses are updated so you need to consider that. Suggestions? You can post an email address here or send it to aylerkupp@gmail.com and I can send you the link or the spreadsheet itself, as you prefer. Of course, I will have to verify your identity since I don't want those finks from Team White to masquerade as yourselves and spoof me. I'm sure that the CIA has ways to preclude that. :-) Yes, I'm fully aware of the saying "Just because you're not paranoid, it doesn't mean that they're not out to get you." |
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| Jul-06-12 | | hms123: <AylerKupp>
I <fink> you are up to no good. ;-) |
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Jul-06-12
 | | Annie K.: Ahem... <AylerKupp> you do realize that <cg> has their support email address, which is, surprisingly, chess@chessgames.com , all over the place here, including their profile text just above? Just email them... ;) |
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Jul-06-12
 | | chessgames.com: <AylerKupp> We have no problem approving your use of rapidshare.com links. The reason why the "outside of chessgames" limitation exists in the first place is to prevent spamming/self-promoting where it isn't welcome. However I am sure your team-mates appreciate your work. So just try again and your links should work. |
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Jul-06-12
| | chessgames.com: OK this file contains the puns from the original Pun Contest: http://www.chessgames.com/puns.html. We intentionally randomized the list puns so they are in absolutely no order whatsoever. We also intentionally did not reveal who submitted the puns, or what scores they accrued. Disclaimer: we have not gone through this list at all so some of the puns might be in horribly poor taste. Ethnic jokes, off-color humor, you name it. This is not an official Chesgames publication. |
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Jul-06-12
| | Annie K.: <We intentionally randomized the list puns so they are in absolutely no order whatsoever. We also intentionally did not reveal who submitted the puns, or what scores they accrued.> Awww... you're no fun. :(
Thanks anyway! ;) |
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Jul-06-12
 | | OhioChessFan: 2000......1900 of which could have never been submitted and the world would have been a better place. |
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| Jul-06-12 | | Calli: Tried out the new editing feature by correcting the dates and rounds for the Capablanca-Alekhine World Championship Match (1927) Feedback:
a) I actually like leading zeros in the dates. It makes them all the same length and dates with a repeating number are more readable. For instance, Jan 11, 1911 reads better as 1911.01.11 than 1911.1.11, IMHO. b) The event and site tags are inconsistent among the games for the same event. I don't know if giving "Chessgames Editors" the capability of fixing this would be "dangerous", but I found round numbers and other artifact stuffed into those boxes. c) wishlist item - Adjourned games. This is a weakness in the standard PGN file rather than CG related, but I wish there was an easy way to indicate what day an adjourned game resumed. |
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| Jul-06-12 | | I play the Fred: I realize these things are a matter of taste, but <I'll have what Xie's having> is terrific. And there were a number of submissions that weren't puns at all, the most baffling of all being: <Judit vs World Champion (Men) (Kasparov, by the way)> |
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Jul-06-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <Calli> Inconsistent event/site tags may be the biggest obstacle to construction of the "historical tournament pages". What would be welcome, instead of individual corrections, would be for <chessgames.com> to use a complete collection to identify the games from a tournament, then make an automatic change to the desired form. Of course, establishing what the "desired form" should be is another and probably more difficult problem, which might be better discussed in the Biographer's Bistro than here. For adjourned games, the only possibility that comes to mind is a note within the score. This would at least display the information, even if it were not usable in other ways. |
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| Jul-06-12 | | Calli: <Phony B> I suppose CG will assign a tid to all the games in a collection. Then change all tags within the tid. That would work. Still, it might be useful if editors are also able to clean things up. For instance, the Euwe-Alekhine match was played at many different sites. Pretty much has to be done by hand. Or non-event games, i.e., a casual Morphy game with the wrong city. If an editor chooses a poor name for an event, at least all the games have the same tag and could be changed easily. |
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Jul-06-12
 | | LoveThatJoker: <CG> Thanks for the list of bad puns. The below selection represents some of the funnier ones that I found on there: 2091. Judit Polgar vs Anand, 2005
Judge Judit
2035. Judit Polgar vs Kasparov, 2002
Shake It Lia a Polgaroid Picture
1708. D Gedult vs E Houzet, 1989
Waiting for Gedult
1697. S Atalik vs Sax, 1997
The Sultan of Suat
1635. Kasparov vs Kramnik, 1994
Garry White
1492. Najdorf vs H Ree, 1971
don't cry "foul, Ree!" Argentina
816. W Hendriks vs T Spanton, 2006
'Scuse me, while I beat this guy
737. S Saeed vs D Norwood, 1985
NORwegian WOOD (Saeed Has Flown)
91. Aronian vs D Gormally, 2005
Punch and Judy
23. J D Tresling vs W Meiners, 1898
Meiners get the shaft
17. U Hammarstrom vs P A Fontaine, 2007
Hungry Like the Ulf
LTJ |
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| Jul-06-12 | | AylerKupp: <Annie K.> Of course I didn't realize that <cg> has their support email address all over the place. Who looks? I'm a guy, I don't read instructions or ask for directions. You should know that by now . . . :-) |
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| Jul-06-12 | | AylerKupp: <hms123> You <fink> right. |
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Jul-06-12
| | chessgames.com: The problem with so many of these puns is that they aren't bad, but they are so much like ones we've used before. <Hungry Like the Ulf> Wolff vs D Gurevich, 1991 was "Hungry like the Wolff" <Judge Judit> used Judit Polgar vs Anand, 1999 <Waiting for Gedult> Nunn vs D Godoy, 1976 was "Waiting for Godoy" <Sultan of Suat> Ahues vs Sultan Khan, 1930 was "The Sultan of Swat" We recycle puns outright anyhow, so variations shouldn't be spurned. |
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Jul-06-12
| | Phony Benoni: <Calli> The problem of varying sites is a troublesome one, since there must be a mechanism to ensure that a separate site doesn't necessarily indicate a separate tournament. But it's important information to have for historical accuracy. I suppose the tid (Tournament ID?) would have be based primarily on Event and Date. |
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Jul-06-12
| | chessgames.com: <Calli: <Phony B> I suppose CG will assign a tid to all the games in a collection. Then change all tags within the tid. That would work.> Bingo. That's exactly what all this is leading up to. <Still, it might be useful if editors are also able to clean things up. For instance, the Euwe-Alekhine match was played at many different sites.> We realize that as well. One day the "AGE" may have more fields for Chessgames Editors, but for one thing at a time. |
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Jul-06-12
| | chessgames.com: <I actually like leading zeros in the dates. It makes them all the same length and dates with a repeating number are more readable.> Whichever way you type it, I believe it will put together a date with padded zeros in YYYY.MM.DD format. At least, it *should* do it that way. |
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Jul-06-12
| | Phony Benoni: <Whichever way you type it, I believe it will put together a date with padded zeros in YYYY.MM.DD format. At least, it *should* do it that way.> That is exactly what happens. |
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| Jul-07-12 | | Benzol: I have what might seem a strange question but I think it is relevant. What happens if a game for example was part of the 5th Round of a tourney and Round 5 was played on the 17th of August 1932 but one of the players was ill so the game couldn't be played until a free day on August 20th. Would this affect the sorting by rounds and dates because the game would read rd 5, date 1932.08.20 instead of rd 5, date 1932.08.17? |
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| Jul-07-12 | | Blunderdome: By the way, you removed 2 or 3 of the lowest-rated puns from my submission list, but there are still at least two on there that were eventually made GOTD using a different pun or a variation on the one I submitted. Don't know if you meant to remove those or not. |
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Jul-07-12
 | | Stonehenge: V Godoj vs F Stips, 2007 Veiting for Godoj :) |
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| Jul-07-12 | | Octavia: I'd like to draw your attention to the strongest ever Scottish competition. Here is the pairing for the first round starting today: http://www.chessscotland.com/scotti... |
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Jul-07-12
 | | tpstar: Game Collection: Get Thee to a Punnery! Recycled idea or not, "Hungry Like the Ulf" should have made the list, especially since the game was between two members of the group. I submitted over 100 entries and still recognize them. Note some ideas were stolen, I mean used, by the site later ("Dude, You're Getting a Del") while others showed up in the Best Game voting over the last few years ("Jun Is Busting Out All Over"). Also note "Do You Know the Way To San Hosea?" won a site award for Best Pun although it remains a total mystery who should get credit ... I suggested before that you publish the Top 100 from the 2009 Pun Contest for posterity, just for reference, and then you can continue stealing, I mean using, the others until they are banished to the Pun Graveyard. :P |
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Jul-07-12
| | chessgames.com: <I have what might seem a strange question but I think it is relevant. What happens if a game for example was part of the 5th Round of a tourney and Round 5 was played on the 17th of August 1932 but one of the players was ill so the game couldn't be played until a free day on August 20th. Would this affect the sorting by rounds and dates because the game would read rd 5, date 1932.08.20 instead of rd 5, date 1932.08.17?> It will put the games in chronological order, for better or for worse? |
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