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| Apr-05-13 | | Blunderdome: I always thought one of the nice things about internet communities was that you don't even have to say where you're from, and we aren't divided by country lines :) |
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| Apr-06-13 | | Alien Math: Võ Thị Kim Phụng appears well in the U20 Asia Chess Championship http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/sp... |
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Apr-06-13
 | | alexmagnus: <cg.com> Maybe this question already was asked by someone, but: will it ever be possible to search f.x. for classical games only? After all, the format of the games is marked now (not always correct, but at least for top players mostly) and the search results do filter the different types out.... |
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Apr-06-13
 | | chessgames.com: We are working on a way to perform searches on classical / rapid / exhibition / etc. The main reason why this feature had been delayed for so long is that until recently our designations on "gametype" was very unreliable. At this stage it's still far from perfect, but quite useful. Hopefully once we establish a way to search on this the few remaining errors can be weeded out more easily. |
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| Apr-09-13 | | waustad: I've started a collection of the games in M60MG for my own convenience and wondered if using Fischer's titles for games (Slaying the dragon, for example) creates a copyright issue. If so, I'll remove the names. |
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Apr-09-13
| | chessgames.com: In fact I believe Larry Evans dubbed the games with those titles, but in any case I doubt there is a copyright issue there. Even Amazon lets you peek at the table of contents :) |
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Apr-09-13
| | chessgames.com: OK we've made a decision, and Battle of the Brains IV will be based on <Carlsen Fans> vs <Wesley So Fans> !!! No, just kidding. We're also going to put the East-vs-West idea on hold as well. However we really are starting BOB4 in less than two weeks. If you are a premium member and played in BOB3 you're already automatically signed up to the opposite color, otherwise you'll be assigned to a team randomly. Good luck! Chessgames Challenge: Team White vs Team Black, 2013 |
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| Apr-09-13 | | waustad: Thanks! |
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| Apr-10-13 | | Alien Math: Possible improvement with Chrome Beta for Android |
Chrome Beta For Android Updated To 27 – Brings Fullscreen To Phones, Better Searching, Tab History, And More
http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/0... The Chrome Team is happy to announce the promotion of Chrome 27 to the Beta channel for Android. https://play.google.com/store/apps/...
Chrome 27.0.1453.49 contains a number of great new updates including: Fullscreen on phones - Scroll down the page and the toolbar will disappear. Simpler searching - Searching from the omnibox will keep your search query visible in the omnibox, making it easier to edit, and show more on your search result page. Client-side certificate support - You can now access sites that require you to use a certificate and Chrome will allow you to select an installed certificate Tab history on tablets - Long press the browser back button to view your tab history Known Issues:
Noticeable lag in text entry on some text fields
chrome://history sometimes show duplicate items
Opening tabs is sometimes slow
Pages may flicker sometimes, especially during navigation |
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| Apr-11-13 | | Alien Math: Possible request for Music Kibitzer's Cafe equivalent? Note some extra pages for one kibitz type, music page might provide space for free music chat with less stress on main Kibitz page |
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| Apr-11-13 | | Bobby Fiske: It is about time for a WC forum. |
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| Apr-11-13 | | whiteshark: <Alien Math: <Possible request for Music Kibitzer's Cafe equivalent?
Note some extra pages for one kibitz type, music page might provide space for free music chat with less stress on main Kibitz page>> <chessgames.com>, I should like to support this long overdue proposal, and I would welcome a timely implementation. |
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Apr-12-13
 | | Tabanus: <cg> It seems there are only two pictures of Samuel Newham (1796-1875) on the internet. Both are here: http://www.ashbracken.com/BrHouse-H... and I like this one best (perhaps you can use it): http://www.ashbracken.com/BrHouse-H... |
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Apr-12-13
| | chessgames.com: <Tabanus> Yes we like that one too. <Music Kibitzer's Cafe> On the face of it, it sounds like a weird request, but we understand why people are asking for this and we'll give it some consideration. <About time for a WC forum> We agree, it's getting to be ripe for that. |
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Apr-12-13
 | | Annie K.: Tomislav Music ;) |
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| Apr-13-13 | | Alien Math: Magnus Carlsen page are still exciteable |
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Apr-14-13
 | | Phony Benoni: I've recently come across a couple of scores with illegal moves caused by the same error. For instance, in R Ervin vs Reshevsky, 1977:
click for larger viewBlack played 11...f5, and White responded with an en passant capture which is notated as <12.gxf6e>. Apparently the "e" was supposed to signify "e.p.", but it had the effect of making the move seem illegal. I've submitted correction slips for this and the other game, but it occurs to me that if this problem happened twice it probably happened again. Is there some Magical Programming Trick available to find them? |
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Apr-14-13
 | | WannaBe: Writing such a parser shouldn't be hard, especially if someone is really, really good with regular expression. Unfortunately, I am not. I think all you need to look for is a letter, because I can't think of a case, where a move ends with a letter. Example: 72. Bxe4 N4xb6 73. Raxd4 Qdxd4+
A move, however, can end with +, ++, or #. |
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Apr-14-13
| | chessgames.com: Hi Phony:
Just fixed that Reshevsky game. Certainly not the first time we've seen that problem before. Apparently some people think that in cases of en passant it's best to just ad lib some explanatory message to help the computers understand the game. I've seen: 12.gxf6e
12.gxf6ep
12.gxf6 e p
12.gxf6 ep
12.gxf6 e.p.
21.gxf6 en passant
and probably other variations as well.
(Of course, the real way to do it properly is to not designate the move as being special in way at all! It's just not necessary. The square that the pawn is capturing on tells the whole story.) Another thing people like to make a big fuss over is double check: <12.Be6++> and <12.Be6 dbl chk> and <12.Be6+ dbchk> etc. We might be able to come up with a "Magical Programming Trick" to locate anomalies like the one you pointed out. Clearly there are certainly characters that no move can end with. We can also keep our eyes peeled for some of the known goofups written above. If we do this, I predict will end up with a list of games that probably will have a variety of problems, I just have no idea how many. In the meantime, if you notice a game that doesn't play by all means tell us about it. I would guess there can't be more than 100 games like that and we'd like to fix them. |
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Apr-14-13
| | Phony Benoni: <Chessgames.com> Thanks. I just found a third one, and realized that all were from the Lone Pine 1977 tournament I'm working on. So perhaps this particular error is localized. |
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Apr-15-13
| | Tabanus: <cg> Also Edward Shirley Kennedy (1817-1898) seems to have only one picture on the internet: http://www.up-climbing.com/cache/im...
http://www.horolezeckaabeceda.cz/im... on these sites: http://www.up-climbing.com/en/contr... and http://www.horolezeckaabeceda.cz/ak.... It is a little bit blurred, and also taken about 40 years after he played in London (1851), but otherwise telling. Perhaps you can use it. |
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| Apr-16-13 | | Eyal: Time to open a forum for the 3rd Grand Prix tournament, which starts tomorrow (http://zug2013.fide.com/en/players). And in a few more days there's the Alekhine Memorial, btw (http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/a...). |
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| Apr-16-13 | | Alien Math: Chinese Chess Championships 2013 appear
http://theweekinchess.com/chessnews... The Chinese Chess Championships take place in Xinghua 16th to 24th April 2013. Play starts at 7:30am BST. Wang, Yue, Li Chao B, Bu Xiangzhi, Hou Yifan etc Results http://chess-results.com/tnr98201.a...
Live http://games.sports.cn/chessorg/dom... |
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| Apr-16-13 | | suenteus po 147: <chessgames.com> Hello! I'm very appreciative to be welcomed back with such gusto: Not only am I finding my work as a games editor useful, but it's helping get new collections squared away and completing some old ones. Some problems are beyond my new abilities, however. There are a few games that keep getting blocked by the PGN Upload Utility because they are most likely conflicting with draws already in the database. If you could push these games through, it would be terrific: [Event "Reggio Emilia 8889"]
[Site "Reggio Emilia, Italy"]
[Date "1988.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "5"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Sax, Gyula"]
[Black "Gurevich, Mikhail"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "2600"]
[BlackElo "2630"]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 Ne7
5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.bxc3 c5 7.Qg4 Kf8 8.Bd3 Qa5
9.Bd2 Qa4 10.c4 dxc4 11.dxc5 Bd7 1/2-1/2
[Event "Las Palmas"]
[Site "Las Palmas, Spain"]
[Date "1993.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "9"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Georgiev, Kiril"]
[Black "Anand, Viswanathan"]
[ECO "D17"]
[WhiteElo "2660"]
[BlackElo "2710"]
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4
5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 e6 7.f3 Bb4 8.e4 Bxe4
9.fxe4 Nxe4 10.Bd2 Qxd4 11.Nxe4 Qxe4+ 12.Qe2 Bxd2+
13.Kxd2 Qd5+ 14.Kc2 Na6 15.Nxc4 O-O-O 16.Qe5 f6
17.Qe3 Kb8 18.Be2 Qxg2 19.Rhg1 Qxh2 20.Rxg7 Nb4+
21.Kb3 Nd5 22.Qf3 Qh4 23.a5 Qd4 24.Rc1 e5
25.Ka2 Rdg8 26.Rf7 Rf8 27.Rg7 Rfg8 28.Rcg1 Qxg1
29.Rxg1 Rxg1 30.Ne3 Nxe3 31.Qxf6 Re8 32.Qf2 Rg4
33.a6 Ra4+ 34.Kb3 Rxa6 35.Bxa6 Nd5 36.Bc4 e4
37.Qf7 Rd8 38.Qxh7 e3 39.Qh2+ Ka8 40.Qe5 a6
41.Qe4 Rf8 42.Bxd5 cxd5 43.Qxe3 Rc8 44.Qe6 Rc6
45.Qxd5 Rb6+ 46.Ka3 Rb5 47.Qd4 Kb8 48.b3 Ka8
49.Kb2 Kb8 50.Kc3 Ka8 51.Kc4 Kb8 52.b4 Kc7
53.Qf4+ Kb6 54.Qb8 Rh5 55.Kb3 Rb5 56.Ka4 Rd5 1/2-1/2 [Event "Reggio Emilia91 Top16"]
[Site "Reggio Emilia, Italy"]
[Date "1991.??.??"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "6"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[White "Polugaevsky, Lev"]
[Black "Ehlvest, Jaan"]
[ECO "D41"]
[WhiteElo "2610"]
[BlackElo "2650"]
1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 e6 4.g3 Nc6
5.Bg2 d5 6.cxd5 Nxd5 7.O-O Be7 8.d4 O-O
9.Nxd5 exd5 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.Bg5 Qb6 12.Qxd5 Be6
13.Qd2 h6 14.Be3 Bxe3 15.Qxe3 Qxb2 1/2-1/2
Thank you very much for your attention to these games! |
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Apr-16-13
| | chessgames.com: <suenteus po 147> Glad to have you back--no problem with those games, we'll push them through. I was going to remark how that last game is move-for-move identical with Ulf Andersson vs Polugaevsky, 1991 but I suppose you already know that, having submitted a minor correction on that game. |
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