Whilst the World Chess Championship resource link is great to help me track my own evolution of Chess style series, I am making increasingly heavy use of Olympiad games:

http://www.olimpbase.org/index.html...

This site in particular seems to have the PGNs of the various Olympiads.

I believe these Olympiads show the strongest players of the particular years who are not necessarily world champions or contenders. In the case for example of Alekhine, it is not necessarily true that Bogo... was the best contender. Both Flohr, and Rubinstein come into mind around 1931 if you check the Olympiad performances e.g.

http://www.olimpbase.org/1930/1930i...

Gives you this info:

"

no. name code pts gms %
1. Rubinstein, Akiba POL 15 17 88.2
2. Flohr, Salomon CSR 14½ 17 85.3
3. Kashdan, Isaac USA 14 17 82.4
4. Marshall, Frank James USA 12½ 17 73.5
5.= Havasi, Kornél HUN 12 14 85.7
5.= Tartakower, Ksawery POL 12 16 75.0
5.= Lundin, Erik SWE 12 17 70.6
"

The point here is, and the point of the suggestion is I think the World championships page you have can be shown in parallel to the Olympiads maybe - to get an idea of a year by year basis of the best players of the time. This also of course would help track the evolution of Chess style too, because I think these games were quite widely publicised as well as the World championship related games.

So more concretely it would be nice to have at the bottom of Chessgames.com:

" Player Directory | World Chess Championships ..."

" Player Directory | World Chess Championships | Chess Olympiads..."

imagine the ♘algo would have ordered (your) premium memberships at the same tempo for just ONE minute...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/knigh...

fireworks, champagne, ... [uhh, this is a family site]

Spot the error contest :)

Several of So's supporters want to convince the rest of us that Carlsen is at the top of the ratings only because of favoritism and "pampering," and by inference that So would be there had he received the same treatment. These kibitzers seem ready to argue this on any page where a related subject comes up.

We have received several Whistles (complaints) related to that issue, but none from you. Please do not come here to post a public complaint about specific users or groups of users. We don't allow that any more.

You mention racism in your (now deleted) post but I think that is an exceptional case and not the core problem. If you want to pursue that, please submit a Whistle slip on the specific post and we'll review it. However, the real problem here--we believe--is that people are posting on topics outside of the stated page subject.

For instance, recently we've seen posts on Carlsen's page were really about Wesley So, with the only apparent reason for the post being there is the fact that Carlsen has the highest FIDE rating and Wesley So doesn't.

Not long before that, we saw a number of posts on the World Blitz Championship which mentioned Wesley So. Why was this relevant? Apparently because Wesley was NOT playing in it.

Of course, these are not valid interpretations of what we regard as "on topic" for these pages.

We assume such behavior annoys people, and if our members point it out to us, we'll delete posts or groups of posts that are off-topic. We do it all the time. And as you know, when we delete too many posts from the same person then they are identified as an "egregious violator" and they get put on kibitzing probation.

They dont even love chess, they just love a chess player! Its that simple!

And I don't blow whistles..

As you may know, webmaster, I haven't attributed more than one post, if at all, there (Carlsen page), one of my favorite pages these days, but imagining a new member wishing to read about Carlsen, or the world blitz 2012, and his reaction to observing a streetfight of over 70 pages, I would be embarrassed to be the "master" having "a" responsability also pertaining to that part of "my web." Don't view this as coming down on you, you know of the amount of respect I carry for your efforts to keep the site hospitable and civil, and chessgames.com really shines when compared to most large websites containing massive amounts of traffic. Just as a reminder and to put it in perspective.

You rightly point out that simply not engaging in debate may offer a solution, but still, people are forced to use an ignore function, I say <forced>, because the actual <player page> is being ruined, and it has become unreadable. Those engaging with the "fanatics" are mostly people with whom I enjoy talking, but having to put some of them on ignore as well because of the endless So pseudo debate, or class warfare in drag, is not my idea of fun.

What I request of you is both explanation and action, and within a reasonable timeframe as well, which in essence, means an improved "Whistle Functionality". The different timezones we all live in should not interfere to too significant an extent.

Why write this down and post here, instead of emailing you, which is the proper action in most of these issues?

Because I want to "support" the "members" who have voiced their opinions and frustration and urgent "call", here, after all at the Member Support Forum. Reviewing the functionality, effectiveness, of your Whistle function, is just one of the things to think about in relation to the recent eruptions, and the Members' frustration in their apparent inability to take action, and see action taken.

Many times have to travel pages for next games of, interviews found, also new blog post from players pages.

I find that often when following members' analysis and thoughts on games and game positions that I benefit from moving the pieces on the board in the game window. When finished, I reload the game from the server to get the game back to its original state click to another post of interest, follow another line of thought moving the pieces in the game window again if I must, and again reload the game when finished with that line.

Perhaps others do this as well.

With games that generate many complex and deep lines of analysis a feature like "freeze panes" as found in database programs might allow members (well ok, me then) to explore contributers ideas without having to scroll up to the game window then down to the kibitzing section again to find the idea's continuation... where was it again... after those... no... oh, here!... now up again to the game window, move the pieces... very clever... interesting... now scroll back down again away from the game window to the continuation... no not that... where was it?... what was the move number again?... Drat!

A "freeze panes" just below the game window, and a "game reset" capability built into pages might make it easier to follow and investigate members' ideas. I appreciate that screen space is limited, but with "freeze panes" a member could play through analysis without losing the game window, reset the game when finished, scroll below the frozen game window and follow another kibitzers' line, clicking to the desired board position.

I imagine many members open second and third boards in other programs and multiple windows to work through ideas presented on the game pages, and I have done and do so myself; however, setting up positions over and over can become time consuming and vexing, and when using devices with small screens or on-screen keyboards, it becomes, at least for me, a limiting factor.

You probably know that Chess Viewer Deluxe (see official page http://chesstuff.blogspot.com/2008/...) offers very sophisticated methods for exploring your own variations. <In a complex game, things can get really messy when you branch several levels deep inside several variations. Well, they won't if you are using Chess Viewer Deluxe. You will always have a clear idea of the exact game path and an easy way to navigate back to any branching point. I don't know about professional players but for a casual/average player (like me) this is a great help.>

However, that doesn't solve the problem of somebody suggesting a variation on the bottom of the page while you are fiddling with the top of the page. You scroll up and down and back again until your eyes are boucing around. You have my sympathies, I recognize this problem on a regular basis.

I know that sometimes Chessgames users open two windows to the same game at the same time, put them side by side, and then use the top of one page to explore a variation while reading the kibitzing on the other side. A crude answer that suggests that something might be better designed.

Achieve, you are indeed one of the oldest and most respected users and I agree with you that the "effectiveness" of the Whistle function varies greatly depending on many factors.

<What I request of you is both explanation and action, and within a reasonable timeframe as well, which in essence, means an improved "Whistle Functionality".>

We can't promise that overnight but I can say that it is certainly an ideal to strive for.

I've contemplated a more organized system in which each complaint slip gets dealt with one way or another (a possibility is that no action is taken, for a specific stated reason) but in any case the result of the complaint is then automatically emailed to the member who issued it.

<I also believe however that you have to have be realistic of what to expect. People will be jerks. Sometimes perfectly sane conversations will be interrupted by somebody that "doesn't have both oars in the water." No amount of posting policies or administration will change that fact of life.> In other words, develop a somewhat thicker skin, be patient, and don't obsess with silliness of gargantuan proportions. You have a point there...

However, being academically trained to become a Physician, I can assure you that the surgeon's adage, or motto: "Get in, fix it, get out", has its preferable uses on occasion.