<There's also "Looker", "Eye-Candy", "Hottie", etc... >

<Annie K> We fixed that just in time, and now there are new bets online for the next round including a "super pick four".

The Carlson page has some trouble staying on topic, yet they provide many games and tournaments to look up, kind of neat.

About 10 am GMT site says http://www.theweekinchess.com/chess...

It came to my knowledge that some pro Wesley So handles were put in probation while posting in the Magnus Carlsen page.

I can only assume these were undertaken as a sanction for what you perceived as posting guidelines violation.

Re your posting guidelines, would you view a minority's nonconformity to a highly held belief by the majority as constituting a transgression?

Cause if you do, let me remind you that it should not be so- there is no violation of law. For while it is true that the essence of democracy is majority rule, the making of binding decisions by a vote of more than one-half of all persons who participate in an election, constitutional democracy in our time requires <majority rule with minority rights.>

"Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, expressed this concept of democracy in 1801 in his First Inaugural Address. He said,

All . . . will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority <Magnus delirious fans> is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority <Wesley So true fans> possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect <not ban> and to violate <put in probation> would be oppression.

In every genuine democracy today, majority rule < Magnus fans> is both endorsed and limited by the supreme law of the constitution <CG.com>, which protects the rights of individuals <Wesley So fans>. Tyranny by minority over the majority is barred, but so is tyranny of the majority against minorities.

This fundamental principle of constitutional democracy, majority rule coupled with the protection of minority rights, is embedded in the constitutions of all genuine democracies today. Various constitutions are filled with statements of guaranteed civil liberties, which the constitutional government <CG.com> must not violate and which it is empowered to protect.

Majority rule <by Magnus kibitzers> is limited in order to protect minority rights <Wesley So kibitzers>, because if it were unchecked it probably would be used to oppress persons holding unpopular views. Unlimited majority rule in a democracy is potentially just as despotic as the unchecked rule of an autocrat or an elitist minority political party.

In every constitutional democracy, there is ongoing tension between the contradictory factors of majority rule <Magnus fans club> and minority rights<Wesley fans club>. Therefore, public officials in the institutions of representative government <chessgames.com> must make authoritative decisions about two questions. When, and under what conditions, should the rule of the majority be curtailed in order to protect the rights of the minority? And, conversely, when, and under what conditions, must the rights of the minority be restrained in order to prevent the subversion of majority rule? < banning Wesley So fans from kibitzing>

These questions are answered on a case-by-case basis in every constitutional democracy in such a way that neither majority rule nor minority rights suffer permanent or irreparable damage. Both majority rule <pro Carlsen kibitzers and sponsors> and minority rights <pro Wesley kibitzers---he has no sponsors> must be safeguarded to sustain justice in a constitutional democracy."

First, if posts have been deleted, I suspect it was because they were made by people who are on probation or banned, but began posting with new user names. (It is quite clear this has been occurring.) I very much doubt it is due to the content of the posts.

Or possibly chessgames believes the posts did not belong on the Carlsen page, but somewhere else.

Tolengoy's comment "public officials in the institutions of representative government <chessgames.com>" is just silly, because obviously chessgames is not an institution of representative government.

Second, the right to post on chessgames is not a matter of law. It is a private site and can make its own rules.

Um, you're slipping. It should be "It came to my <attention>", "<on> probation", and "<on> the Magnus Carlsen page".

Now repost the whole thing!

<I can only assume these were undertaken as a sanction for what you perceived as posting guidelines violation.> Probation is always a result of that. If those accounts emailed chess@chessgames.com as instructed we would inform them of exactly the problem and be willing to hear their appeal.

<Re your posting guidelines, would you view a minority's nonconformity to a highly held belief by the majority as constituting a transgression?> Absolutely not.

<Cause if you do, ... > Please don't butcher the words of America's third president, one of our personal heroes. He was speaking of far more important matters than the trivium you bring before us.

Let me put this very simply. We don't have a rule against making multiple accounts per se, but we do not allow accounts created for "illegitimate purposes", including but not limited to:

<1> Making multiple accounts to create the illusion that a minority opinion has the support of many users, when in fact it is just one person hopping from screen-name to screen-name. Commonly known as "sock-puppetry".

<2> Making multiple accounts to sidestep the functionality of the "Ignore List".

<3> Making multiple accounts to cheat in any of the site-sponsored games or contests (ChessBookie!, the Holiday Present Hunt, the Dear Santa drawing, etc.)

Same here, Pillsbury to Schwarz are smaller than Tarrasch, then the words Playoff Match seemed to reset the fonts back to 'normal'.

With solution Biographer Bistro

If you replace the <p with br> inside the cross-table, it fixes the problem on IE with the fonts

Mark Crowther has got PGN for 543 games of the World Youth Championship (2012) in <TWIC 941>.

https://twitter.com/MarkTWIC/status...