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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 566 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Nov-04-12    chessgames.com: < It's 1:40 AM EST (after the hour fall back)> Oh *that* 1:40 am, as opposed to the other 1:40 am we experienced before the fall back. Which pretty much explains why otherwise sensible software would go cuckoo. (Making the assumption that time goes inexorably in one direction--how naive!) Anyhow, I think the page was being updated, it's just that it had recent material buried under a group of posts which were in fact posted previously. So the new-stuff was being sprinkled among the older stuff. Fortunately the order of discussion on individual threads was not affected. All the nations should get together and sign a treaty banning daylight savings. Nov-04-12    chessgames.com: Exciting announcement at the Biographer Bistro recently made regarding two new important site features: • Tournament Index • New Tournaments Nov-04-12    notyetagm: <CG.COM> Can we please have a forum for the just completed <TROPHEE ANATOLY KARPOV> tournament, won by Karpov(!!)? TWIC PGN -> http://www.theweekinchess.com/asset... Thanks Nov-04-12    Annie K.: <cg: <All the nations should get together and sign a treaty banning daylight savings.>> Yeah that. Not to mention the part about how the Southern Hemisphere goes <on> DST round about the time when the Northern Hemisphere goes <off> it, and vice versa, so you've got relative times jumping every which way all over the place. Plus, as they say in Oz, it fades the curtains. QED ;) Nov-04-12    dakgootje: Yeah. Forget world peace; daylight savings' is a pain. Nov-04-12    Stonehenge: Sir, I believe saving daylight is very important. What if it was always dark? Nov-04-12    dakgootje: Then the whole world would be a mystery again. :) Nov-05-12    Annie K.: Heh. Recommended reading: 'Nightfall' by Isaac Asimov. Either the short story version, or the novel version co-authored with Robert Silverberg, or both. ;) Um, speaking of chess, great job on the tournament front <cg>. :) Nov-05-12    Blunderdome: This site keeps getting better. Nov-05-12    chessgames.com: Thanks! Nov-05-12    notyetagm: <CG.COM> Can we please have a forum for the <2012 SPANISH TEAMS CHAMPIONSHIP>, which started today? TWIC DOSSIER -> http://www.theweekinchess.com/chess... TWIC PGN -> http://theweekinchess.com/assets/fi... Thanks Nov-05-12    parisattack: Great job on the Bio Bistro and Tournaments <CG.com> - You finally figured out what every prison guard knows: If they're busy, they can't get into trouble. :) Nov-05-12    TheFocus: <You finally figured out what every prison guard knows: If they're busy, they can't get into trouble.> A-Ha!! Leave it to <parisattack> to see through the fog. Nov-05-12    notyetagm: <CG.COM> A very important tweet from Mark Crowther at <THE WEEK IN CHESS>: <MarkTWIC @raulgomezq Looking to make the entire TWIC archive available for download for some kind of fee this month in at least a couple of formats. 7 hours ago · reply · retweet · favorite> Pay the fee, get the entire archive at a reasonable price. FYI. Nov-06-12    parisattack: <TheFocus> 'We are all just prisoners here of our own device.' I am inmate CG-2004-12-508. Nov-06-12    chessgames.com: We've been in contact with Mark Crowther recently. We knew that http://www.theweekinchess.com/ is undergoing big changes and we wanted to let him know that we are prepared to support his efforts in any way possible. Nov-06-12    chessgames.com: <notyetagm> Excellent, thanks: Spanish Team Championship (Honor Division) (2012) Nov-07-12    notyetagm: <chessgames.com: <notyetagm> Excellent, thanks: Spanish Team Championship (Honor Division) (2012)> Yw. Nov-09-12    Shams: Which is the homepage new kibitzing link that is not sensitive to my ignore list? Nov-09-12    chessgames.com: <Shams: Which is the homepage new kibitzing link that is not sensitive to my ignore list?> We wish it could be, but from a technical perspective we've never figured out a good, efficient way to accomplish that task. Maybe one day. Nov-09-12    notyetagm: <CG.COM> Can we please have a forum for the <2012 FIDE WOMEN'S KNOCKOUT WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP>, which starts tomorrow? http://chess2012.ugrasport.com/ Thanks Nov-10-12    Shams: <cg> Fair enough; somebody had told me the functionality was already in place. I have another question-- are we discouraged from flagging game score corrections based on nothing more than common sense? For example, it's fairly obvious the last move here was not N-KN5 but instead N-QN5. Should I try to find some proof before I flag it? E Lowenthal vs F Wildman, 1908 Nov-10-12    Annie K.: <Shams> AFAIK, the Recent Kibitzing Page and Recent Chessforum Activity pages take the ignore list into account; the Recent Kibitzing list on the homepage doesn't. Nov-10-12    perfidious: CG have done a fine job in cutting the Gordian knot when dividing between classical games and all others, but one matchup which deserves clarification is the games played between Botvinnik and his trainer Ragozin. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Most of these were training games and are so noted, but how would one classify them? It would be useful to separate the tournament encounters from the remainder. As an example, all the 1951 meetings were training games; it is well known that Botvinnik played no serious game between winning the world title and his first title defence, against Bronstein. Nov-10-12    chessgames.com: <Most of these were training games and are so noted, but how would one classify them?> If there was sufficient demand we could create a new category of game-type called "training". (There is a designation called "OTHER" but we're loathe to use it.) The CG Librarian noted that we don't even have a category called "casual" or "skittles"--that might be handy. But one of the problems is that if, say, you looked up Paul Morphy vs Alonzo Morphy you'd find some preposterous statement like "They were tied +0 -0 =0, discounting casual games." Likewise, if somebody looks up Botvinnik vs Ragozin, do they really want to see the training games excluded in the statistics? Maybe the person who is looking up such a record is salivating for spilled blood. More philosophically, to what extent were these not serious games? Surely they both were trying to win. If Botvinnik won a training game over Ragozin, is that not a tribute to his chess skill? We're not really advocating one way or another--it's a sticky question, and I thank you for bringing it to light. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 566 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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