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| Aug-12-12 | | Memethecat: Re: <Dr. Pipit Wagtail>s problem when trying to follow another kibitzers line. I found this annoying too, scrolling up & down is tedious & makes it difficult to sustain your train of thought. I've started copying the line I want to follow onto Notepad, then you can have it next to the Chess Viewer when its reduced to half screen. Works well for me. |
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Aug-12-12
 | | chessgames.com: Did you know, that when Yuri Shulman took the Chessgames Challenge, the very next year he won the USA Championship? Then Natalia Pogonina takes the Chessgames Challenge, and now she wins the Russian Women's Championship. We call this the "Chessgames effect." |
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Aug-12-12
 | | Phony Benoni: I hereby volunteer for the next Chessgames Challenge. |
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| Aug-12-12 | | Robed.Bishop: I think you should capitalize it for visual impact: The Chessgames Effect. |
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Aug-12-12
| | chessgames.com: We recently received this suggestion from a member who doesn't post a great deal (name withheld) <I just wanted to make a suggestion. Chessgames.com is a great site. I especially like the kibitzing part but I feel the kibitzing area could be improved a little which would make this site even more fantastic. I feel the kibitzing should appear on the sides of the chess board rather than at the bottom as it becomes very difficult to concentrate on the moves while scrolling up and down. I hope my suggestions are not much of a bother to you. Thanks> I do not believe this user has been following the discussion here; the desire for this feature is clearly present. Implementation is the tricky bit. |
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Aug-12-12
 | | WannaBe: <Phony Benoni: I hereby volunteer...> Arrrrgh! We have to play the Benoni Opening?! =( |
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Aug-12-12
| | WannaBe: The implementation isn't difficult at all:
1. Buy a second monitor.
2. Get a <GOOD> Graphics Card. (That can/support expand screen). 3. Open 2 browsers, to the same game's page.
4. Use one monitor and browser to look at the board, use the other one to look at kibitz'n!! Thank you, that will be $20.00 for solving your problem(s). |
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Aug-12-12
| | WannaBe: But seriously, use frames. Something like this: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/doc... |
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Aug-12-12
 | | Annie K.: Next GM to play the cg World team pays for the privilege! And pick one of the contenders for the Chinese championship. Then we'll have all superpowers covered. :D I'll second the frames suggestion too. :) |
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| Aug-12-12 | | Blunderdome: <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.> If I wanted to know why Kramnik skipped the Russian Superfinal, I suppose it would be quite OK to ask that on the tournament page instead of VK's player page. Nor would I mind if there were quite a few posts about Kramnik, if they were about reasons for his absence and not about his openings, his blazer, his wife, Toiletgate etc. So you may need to think of another way to articulate what the problem with the World Blitz page was ;) |
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| Aug-12-12 | | WinKing: <Annie K.: Next GM to play the cg World team pays for the privilege!> Darn right <Annie K>! No better place for them to go & improve their game than here playing the 'chessgames World Team'.
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Aug-13-12
| | chessgames.com: <Blunderdome> raises a good point. Of course Kramnik's absence in the Superfinals is worth mentioning, and for that matter there really isn't any problem with the mention that Wesley So wasn't at the World Blitz Championship per se. The problem comes when one or more people obsess on a subject to such a degree that discussing that actual tournament in progress becomes difficult. Of course this is highly subjective, and it always will be, so we rely on members to let us know when they've had enough. The Whistle Page itself has a section devoted to this topic, and I think it's declaration is specific enough for our purposes: <Although we urge members to stick to the topic for which the pages are designated, a ceratin amount of off-topic banter is a natural occurrence, and therefore tolerated. However, we would like to be notified when you think that it has gone beyond what you consider reasonable.> |
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Aug-13-12
 | | Stonehenge: <ceratin> you discovered a little error :) |
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Aug-13-12
| | chessgames.com: Hehe, thanks Stonehenge.
On a different subject, the game Christiansen vs G Garcia Gonzales, 1982 has one of the craziest duplicate scores we've come across in a while. Look at the comparison of the two scores here: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/dupe... Any guesses which move order there is the right one? You'd think that with so many moves in such a different order that one of those game scores must surely contain absurdities, but a brief inspection didn't show anything outrageously wrong with either. |
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| Aug-13-12 | | crawfb5: I don't have a suggestion at the moment as to which score is correct, but it occurs to me that such a game in an Interzonal tournament was likely published in some printed format. Two sources that might be worth checking are <Chess Life & Review> and the <Informant> series. Unfortunately, I have neither at hand for 1982. Perhaps someone else can check. |
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Aug-13-12
| | WannaBe: I (again) volunteer our very own esteened (or just steamed) <Phony Benoni> to the case! Come Dr. Benoni, the game is afoot*!
*Which is weird, since Brits use the metric system, shouldn't it be "The game is ameter?" |
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| Aug-13-12 | | Alien Math: <WannaBe ..the game is afoot*!> Couple articles of interest of quote http://everything2.com/title/The+ga...
He soon discovers his words to be ineffective. The men are reluctant to rush forward and throw away their lives. Henry rises to the challenge and rings out loudly with their possibilities to compel them further http://www.online-literature.com/fo... Hi holmesian. I've heard or read this many times, but I've never sought out a definition. It has always meant to be that 'the game is just getting interesting'. We do however have a thread that might be able to answer this for you. http://www.online-literature.com/fo... Also find | Literary Skills of Sherlock Holmes http://www.trussel.com/detfic/fried... |
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| Aug-14-12 | | crawfb5: Robert Byrne's <NY Times> column for 17 Oct 1982 is on Christiansen vs G Garcia Gonzales, 1982. Byrne's version of the score agrees with the original version, not the alternate. |
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| Aug-14-12 | | Eyal: <Christiansen vs G Garcia Gonzales, 1982> For what it's worth, I've looked at five other online resources - chessbase, chess365, chesslab, NIC & the pgn file of Mark Weeks' WC site (http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/828...) - and they all show the "original" version. |
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Aug-14-12
 | | kingscrusher: Hi Chessgames.com
Thanks for the Historical game feature note about that coming up. Here is another idea: Have you thought of game medals?! Say each Chessgames.com member gets to vote a maximum of 3 game medals a day - e.g. "Instructive Game" medal
"Entertaining Game" medal
"Brilliant Game" medal
"Great Endgame" medal
"Opening blunder" medal
"Opening Novelty" medal
Make it a maximum of 3 per 24 hours say
Then maybe this could be used to highlight games like this one: J Rudd vs N P Walker, 2012
(I would give this an entertaining game medal)
Which got mentioned on the ECF forum recently as being really entertaining. With a Game Medal system (btw I think Chessbase has a Medal system too), games like this could be really highlighted, and then you could also have a Game search by Medals later on. Also of course, a small side effect of such a medal system is it could potentially highlight great games to video annotate - or annotate if members wanted to annotate them. |
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Aug-14-12
| | kingscrusher: BTW of course maybe the Olympics and the excitement around medals also somehow influenced me to post this Game medal idea. |
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Aug-14-12
| | chessgames.com: Medals, cute idea. We've got Olympic fever here as well :) At least we have the chess Olympiads to look forward to now. |
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Aug-14-12
 | | Peligroso Patzer: <CG>: Are you planning to establish a page for the French Championship (see: http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Default.a...) to help us bridge the interval until the Olympiad starting 27th August? |
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Aug-14-12
| | chessgames.com: <PP> We just added it, thanks -- French Championship (2012). |
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Aug-15-12
 | | perfidious: If I may have the temerity to make a suggestion:
One week of puzzles, dedicated to the memory of a great champion and finer human being, the one and only Svetozar Gligoric. |
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