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Feb-15-21 chessgames.com chessforum    chessgames.com: Dear Chessgames.com members: We've recently become aware of a technical difficulty with the "engine" server, which is used for game/move analysis. It appears that a hardware failure may be responsible for making the analysis engine unavailable. We're actively ...      Jan-22-21 Santa Claus    chessgames.com: Dear chessgames members: Santa Claus <finally> got around to sending us his list of lucky winners for this year's "Dear Santa" contest! We thank Santa for his diligence, and have learned that his tardiness in providing his list was <unavoidable> due to ...      May-31-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    chessgames.com: <♕♔♕ Bettors and Worse ♕♔♕> As we start this year's ChessBookie cycle with the Summer Leg, I would first like to thank our fearless new Bookie <jingohanson>, who made it possible to continue the game. Next, I hereby announce in ...      Mar-14-20 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)    chessgames.com: Everybody please keep the political bickering off this page.      Feb-22-20 Kibitzer's Café    chessgames.com: May I humbly request a change from REM, <Hazz> You decide. :)      Mar-12-19 Spring Chess Classic (A) (2019)    chessgames.com: We've added the games through Round 9 for the St. Louis Spring Chess Classic (Group A).      Mar-08-19 Prague Chess Festival (Challengers) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for the Prague Chess Festival Masters and Challengers sections, and we'll include the Open section results as they become available. For news & details, see the official site at http://praguechessfestival.com/      Mar-08-19 Prague Chess Festival (Masters) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for the Prague Chess Festival Masters and Challengers sections, and we'll include the Open section results as they become available. For news & details, see the official site at http://praguechessfestival.com/      Mar-08-19 World Team Chess Championship (Women) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for Rounds 1-3 of both the Open and Women's sections of the 2019 FIDE World Team Chess Championship. For news & details, see the official site at http://wteams.astana2019.fide.com/e...      Mar-08-19 World Team Chess Championship (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for Rounds 1-3 of both the Open and Women's sections of the 2019 FIDE World Team Chess Championship. For news & details, see the official site at http://wteams.astana2019.fide.com/e...

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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 563 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Oct-15-12    technical draw: <dakgootje: The brouhaha is a rare, but very tasty, bird native to Madagascar.> You, sir, are no ornithologist. The tasty bird from Madagascar is not the brouhaha but the bedlam, cousin of the ballyhoo and the flap. Know your birds! Oct-15-12    hoodrobin: <chessgames.com: ...the most recent one million visits...> English speaking can be dangerous to your health! :) Oct-15-12    WannaBe: I can't believe <dakgootje> logged in 21,017 times!! Oh, wait, maybe <lostemperor> helped out. Oct-15-12    Benzol: The people in the Antipodes are too far away to count. Oct-15-12    Shams: <I would never have guessed there were that many French members (or is that just lurkers?) around here.> I wish one of them would post in French on his or her member page, as other users do in Spanish or other languages. Would be nice to have a place where my elementary French questions could be answered. Oct-15-12    WannaBe: Oui? Que Pasa? Oct-15-12    achieve: <chessgames> Thanks very much for looking up those numbers -- very interesting, as can be seen from various reactions here already... I'm also quite surprised at "the number of French Hits", easily beating Aznavour and Bécaud together. And those were Legends. Oct-16-12    WannaBe: Those Taiwanese better get their act together, I can only login so often. Oct-16-12    jepflast: <chessgames> I for one would appreciate it if you added a news item on the home page for the ending of the Thematic Challenge, giving us a link there, especially seeing as how you removed the sidebar link. The Challenge home page, also, indicates some slack! on your part--it still says JOIN NOW instead of SEE GAME HERE. Where's the love? Oct-16-12    chessgames.com: <jepflast> You are so right, it's now under the What's New and also correctly appears at the top of the Chessgames Challenge page. Oct-16-12    kellmano: The US and UK visits are roughly in proportion to the population I think. Incidentally, the French have a strong chess culture. It's promoted in schools and all. Also, if you go to the jardin du Luxembourg in Paris you get open-air chess just like in Washington Square park in NYC. Oct-16-12    jepflast: Thanks! Oct-17-12    OhioChessFan: Nice of <selezneva> to include you on their spam list of advertising. 20 kibitzes on 20 forum pages. Oct-17-12    Benzol: <chessgames> another month has ticked by, so how's progress on the historic tournaments project? Oct-17-12    chessgames.com: <Benzol> It's practically all we're doing around here lately. We hope to make an announcement in just a few days. Thanks for your patience--more news soon. Oct-17-12    Tiggler: <Tabanus: Hi <cg> please read <imag>'s last post on the Akobian page. Please also expel/ban/remove <DL> from this game, so that <imag> may come back. IMO Mr. <DL> has provably violated the rule of 2. no spamming etc. Thanks and sorry for not blowing the whistle instead.> <Tabanus> and <truefriends>, possibly <imag> is ashamed of the post you reference and would wish to have removed. It insults a member who is following the rules and incites others to do the same. Regrettably, some have complied with this. Of course, I did blow the whistle. But not on <DanLanglois> Oct-17-12    chessgames.com: <Tiggler> Let's please keep this discussion contain to emails as we've been doing. We've been in contact with you, <imag>, and <DanLanglois>. If we don't operate that way, a good portion of the entire World Team will descend upon this forum thinking that the matter is a subject of group discussion, which it's not. Oct-18-12    Eyal: <CG> During the recent ECC, you've created the player page M Botvinnik for games that were played by Mikhail A Botvinnik; but besides that, I thought I'd take the opportunity to remind you that the middle "A" in the latter's name is actually a mistake (or, rather, an arbitrary addition that was originally meant just to distinguish him from the famous player) which should be corrected – see my query at chessgames.com chessforum and your response. Oct-18-12    TheFocus: Where do I go here to pay for a member's Premium Membership? Anonymous or not. Oct-18-12    chessgames.com: <TheFocus> See our Premium Membership Help Page under "How do I sign-up?" If you want to buy somebody else a premium membership, you want the Gift Membership Page. Thanks. Oct-18-12    TheFocus: <chessgames.com> Thank you very much. Oct-19-12    whiteshark: <chessgames.com> On 20th and 21st of October the season 2012/13 of the <German Schachbundesliga> starts with the first two rounds. (271 players from 31 countries play for 16 teams in the highest German chess league.) Liga page:http://www.schachbundesliga.de Intro: http://www.schachbundesliga.de/maga... Oct-19-12    kingscrusher: Hi Chessgames.com I think a nice touch for player homepages would be a dynamic age calculation if the date of births are known for players. E.g. Wesley So Wesley So http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley... (Wiki has month and day - FIDE cards do not seem to) Birth date: Oct 9 1993, so the Chessgames.com page could have next to each name e.g. Wesley So, Age: 19 This might highlight more clearly child prodigies or the emerging new crop of players under 25 who seem to have 2650+ FIDE ratings with greater frequency nowadays. Oct-19-12    kingscrusher: BTW also another bonus of this could be a new "Birthday's today" feature which is on the frontpage somewhere, showing which GMs have their birthdays today. Youtube also use this dynamic calculation method for Youtube homepages - with the option of not showing age. I think quite a few sites might do it. Oct-19-12    kingscrusher: A slightly more wacky idea (!) which I can't resist mentioning today is also to have Tag Clouds for each game. Like on Wordpress blogs :). You could dynamically construct a game Tag Cloud from the chess keywords mentioned in the discussion of the game. So for example if "bishop pair" is mentioned many times, it would stand out with bigger font than other mentioned chess terms. Something maybe for the future anyway .... :) Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 563 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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