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Jul-19-12
 | | chessgames.com: <tolengoy> I think there might be a puzzle in there somewhere but please use our PGN Upload Utility to submit new games. Also, email addresses do not suffice for player's names. I am assuming you are one of the players there--if so, just give your real name for that slot and leave the opponent as "NN". |
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| Jul-19-12 | | achieve: <Chessgames> First my compliments on some fine entrepreneurship with regards to Chessgames and 20/20 Technologies. Second, a propos, a request for pages for two events currently being held in Amsterdam, the Science Park Amsterdam Chess Tournament. Firstly, I just noticed that the page for the ACP Golden Classic is already up, my bad, but the concurrent Dutch Championship, with two rounds to go, Giri leading, doesn't have a page yet, correct? And as far as the Women's 'Dutch' Championship is concerned, Tea Lanchava is putting in a heroic effort to break the iron grip that Peng has had on this championship. Thanks. |
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Jul-19-12
 | | WannaBe: Let us know when you're going IPO, <technical draw> have been collecting 20.00$ from everyone to buy stocks!! |
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| Jul-19-12 | | LIFE Master AJ: Bronstein vs F Zita, 1946 Could this game be featured in the Bronstein's "notable games" (section)? I know for a fact that Bronstein considered it to be one of his better games. While in the military, I traveled extensively -- quite literally, all over the world. I went to a chess club in the Netherlands. I had just gotten off work (training deployment); and after working something like 36 hours straight, I was darn near exhausted. (There had been a siml earlier, but I missed that completely.) I kept falling asleep during the lecture, (by Bronstein); this might have given the appearance that I did not care for the lecture, but nothing could have been further from the truth. Anyway, one of the games that he covered that night in a kind of 'notable combinations' section was this game. (He considered it one of his prettiest combinations.) |
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Jul-20-12
| | WannaBe: <LIFE Master AJ> If you click on [what is this] link, you would discover/learn, that to be a notable game, it would be selected, via number of times, in a player's game collection. But alas, since I am on your ignore list, you would not be able to read this, and have to wait for someone else to tell you. Personally, I am a bit surprised, for as long as you have been a member here, you do not know these (finer detailed) things. |
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Jul-20-12
 | | Phony Benoni: <Life Master AJ> Next to each player's list of Notable Games is a link leading to this information: "What are 'Notable Games'?
"On some player pages, tournament pages, and opening pages, there is a list of Notable Games. In the case of player pages, this list highlights some important games that the player has won or drawn. On opening pages, you can see some milestone games in its history. If you want to see some interesting games by a player, or of a certain opening, this is usually a good place to start. <"The lists of notable games are calculated by finding the games which most frequently appear in our users' game collections. "Notable games are chosen democratically by Chessgames members, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the Chessgames.com staff.> "If you want to "vote" for a game, simply put it in one of your game collections." Despite Bronstein's opinion, this game has a long road ahead to become "notable" in the <cg> sense. It appears in only five collections, while every game in his "Notable List" has at least 40. Maybe that seems arbitrary, but it's an attempt to inject some objective criteria into what would otherwise be an endless source of controversy. |
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Jul-20-12
| | Phony Benoni: By the way, this question arises frequently, and I would bet that the vast majority of <cg> users are not aware of the criteria for notable games. |
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| Jul-21-12 | | Benzol: Are 20/20 Technologies and chessgames.com working out of somebody's garage? I had a look at google earth and 718 NE 11th Avenue Pampona Beach looks like a house in residential area. |
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Jul-21-12
| | chessgames.com: Not a garage per se, but yes it's a home office. That's the original 20/20 workplace. We haven't actually worked there in years but we can still receive mail at that address. By the way, it's "Pompano Beach" — named after a kind of fish that is plentiful (and delicious) in these parts. |
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Jul-21-12
 | | Annie K.: <cg> nice to hear details about the history of our favorite site. It's a great success story! Seems a bit of a pity that after all this, Albert wants to sell his share, but I guess he did make his dream come true first. Any luck with that? BTW, if you are feeling a little stalked these days, relax, good news: you're not getting paranoid. ;p But it's just because we all love you. I'm pretty sure. :D |
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Jul-21-12
| | chessgames.com: <we all love you> Awwww, thanks Annie. |
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Jul-21-12
 | | Peligroso Patzer: This page: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... currently gives the score between Karjakin and Kramnik in classical games as being in Karjakin’s favor by +2 -0 =6. The following three games (all won by Karjakin), however, all appear to have been played at a classical time control, so that summary seems to be incorrect: Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2004
Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2010
Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2011 |
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Jul-21-12
| | chessgames.com: <Peligroso> Karjakin vs Kramnik, 2004 was a blitz playoff game; in the kibitzing they say it was 10 minutes + 5/move. The other two games you cited we have marked as classical. So the "2 to 0 with 6 draws" score is correct as far as we know. |
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| Jul-21-12 | | Benzol: <chessgames.com> <Not a garage per se, but yes it's a home office. That's the original 20/20 workplace. We haven't actually worked there in years but we can still receive mail at that address.
By the way, it's "Pompano Beach" — named after a kind of fish that is plentiful (and delicious) in these parts.> One of the things on my bucket list is to try just once to meet you guys face to face. Sampling that fish sounds inviting so don't be suprised if one day out of the blue I front up on the doorstep. Fronting up at the wrong address is not in the game plan, however. :) |
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Jul-21-12
| | Peligroso Patzer: <CG>: Thanks for the clarification. I checked only the information presented in the caption of the scoresheet, which gave no indication it was not part of the regular schedule for that tournament. Obviously, I do not understand all the applicable parameters and limitations of the format in which games in your database are presented, but the more information of that sort (including date of game, which in many cases I have found to be inaccurate) that can be presented in the caption, the better. |
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| Jul-22-12 | | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
I'm mindful of not flooding the place with this sort of thing, so I spent the day pulling together the list below, with links, of recent tournaments that have a significant number of games that meet the 2200 criteria. I've ensured that all the links contain PGNs of some or all the games involved so you don't have to chase through endless pages of google translations and whatever to find the PGN nuggets and lodes you need. Anyway here goes. Hope it helps:
- 2012 US Junior Championship (Closed): http://uschesschamps.com/standings-... - 22nd Heart of Finland Open: http://www.hof2012.fi/index.php/en-... (7GMs; 9 IMs; 11 FMs; 5 others rated above 2200) - 7th Wroclaw Open A (4 GMs; 3 IMs; 4 FMS; 5 others rated above 2200) and the - 21st Adolf Anderssen Memorial (9 GMs; 11 IMs; 3 WGMs; 7 others rated over 2200): http://translate.google.com.au/tran... - L. Polugaevsky Memorial 2012: http://chess-results.com/tnr76394.a...: 102 Games available for Download from a field that includes 50 players rated over 2200, including 24 GMs; 4 IMs; 1 WGM; 7 FMs; 14 untitled rated between 2211 – 2464). - 23rd Benasque International Open: http://chess-results.com/tnr76514.a... – 98 games available for download from a field of 30 GMs, 24 IMs out of a total of 103 players rated over 2200. - Slovakian Championship 2012: http://chess-results.com/tnr71887.a...; 268 games available for Download from a field of 98 players, including 41 players rated over 2200 (including 10 GMs; 14 IMs; 2 WGMs; 8 FMs; 7 untitled rated between 2201 – 2433). - 119th Scottish Championship and International Open: http://www.chessscotland.com/scotti... ; 10 GMs; 12 IMs; 35 players rated over 2200 - Championship of Montenegro 2012: http://translate.google.com.au/tran...; category 6 RR; 11 rounds; - Central Serbian Championship: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr766...; 386 games available for download from a field of 93 players playing 9 rounds, with 58 players rated 2200 or over including 16 GMs; 17 IMs; 13 FMs |
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| Jul-22-12 | | twinlark: (continued)
- Leiden 2012: http://translate.googleusercontent....; ; 28 players rated over 2200 including 12 GMs and 7 IMs. - 86th Argentine Championships 2012: http://www.juegosajedrez.com.ar/86-... (PGNs available through menu: Visor de Partidas/Visor General (round by Round): 25 players rated over 2200 including 7 GMs and 10 IMs; - Championship of Paris 2012: http://translate.google.com.au/tran...; 62 players rated over 2200 including 8 GMs and 12 IMs - 4th Rethymo International: http://www.chess-results.com/tnr766...; 270 games available for download; 51 players rated over 2200 including 21 GMs, 15 IMs; and 3 WGMs. - 11th International Open at Bergamo: http://translate.google.com.au/tran... (PGNs available through links to each round); 17 plays rated over 2200 including 7 GMs and 6 IMs. - International Open at Barbera del Valles 2012: http://chess-results.com/tnr69824.a...; 363 games available for download; 60 players rated above 2200 including 14 GMs, and 16 IMs. - 6th Varna Open 2012; http://www.euroschoolchess.org/main... (PGNs via links to each round); 5 GMs, 3 IMs - V. Dvorkovich Cup 2012 juniors http://ratings.fide.com/view_games....; featuring many of the world’s top juniors including the winner Goryachkina, and also Duda, Antipov, Alekseenko, Eliseev, Ali Maranda, Oparin - Macedonian team Championships 2012 (ongoing): http://chess-results.com/tnr77172.a... with 108 games available for download after 7 rounds; 13 GMs (including Andreikin, Volokitin, Kryvoruchko), 9 IMs |
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Jul-22-12
 | | Eggman: Hey, CG, can we please get a page going for Biel? Thanks! |
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Jul-22-12
| | WannaBe: <Eggman> Here you go: Biel Chess Festival (2012) |
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Jul-22-12
| | chessgames.com: <twinlark> Thanks for that. Every few months we go to TWIC (http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/twic.html) and catch-up on smaller tournaments that we normally wouldn't cover on the homepage. We're quite overdue for that process. Once we do that we'll go back to your posts and see if we missed some of the events you listed. Thanks again. |
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| Jul-22-12 | | hms123: <chessgames.com>
When I roll over the link for the <World vs Akobian> in the <Recent Kibitzing> list on the main page, I can read the most current post. Similarly, when I go to the recent kibitzes page the current post is also visible for that game. I thought that wasn't supposed to happen. |
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| Jul-22-12 | | twinlark: <ceegee>
You're welcome.
TWIC's where I derived the information. The tournaments that are not mentioned in my posts are the ones in which I couldn't find the PGNs, and are (mainly) minor events. The links in my two posts are to the pages containing the PGNs themselves, which will save you a lot of searching time. But I take your point. |
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Jul-22-12
| | chessgames.com: <hms123> Probably no more than a few minutes before or after you typed that message, we noticed a little typo and fixed it, thereby solving the problem. A configuration variable was set to the game number but by accident the whole line was commented-off and therefore useless. Removing a single # solved the problem. |
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| Jul-22-12 | | hms123: <chessgames.com> Thanks. I guess I'm just lucky. Too bad it doesn't do me any good with the <ChessBookie>. |
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Jul-24-12
| | Peligroso Patzer: I was recently looking for this interesting game in your database:
Boleslavsky vs Kotov, 1953. I was astonished to discover that neither of these players is listed in the drop-down menu included in the game search window on the homepage. I am not sure what criteria you use for inclusion in that list, but (my goodness), Isaac Boleslavsky, in addition to being one of the leading theoreticians of the mid-Twentieth Century, came within an eyelash of qualifying to play in the 1951 World Chess Championship. |
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