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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 596 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Apr-19-13    Stonehenge: <CG> There are still games from the women's tournament here: Russian Team Championships (2013) Apr-19-13    OhioChessFan: I don't know if it's feasible, but I've always wondered if you could have pages for chess concepts, eg, "Perpetual Check", "Sacrifice of the Exchange", "Crazy Rook", "Zugzwang", etc, with notable games linked along with links to the member collections of the concept. It would be a nice educational tool. Apr-19-13    Open Defence: how about a period or year filter for the opening explorer ? Apr-19-13    benjinathan: I have a small annoyance and do not know whether it is me or you. Why, on the player pages, are the games from a single tournament not all together. For example on my Topa page games are listed as follows: 1777. I Kurnosov vs Topalov 0-1 42 2012 World Rapid Championship B30 Sicilian 1778. Bologan vs Topalov 1-0 42 2012 World Blitz Championship B90 Sicilian, Najdorf 1779. Topalov vs Ivanchuk ½-½ 65 2012 Kings' Tournament C78 Ruy Lopez 1780. K Juhasz vs Topalov 0-1 73 2012 Topalov Vienna Clock Simul E62 King's Indian, Fianchetto 1781. Topalov vs Karjakin 0-1 27 2012 World Blitz Championship I would have thought they would be listed by event or date. Perhaps there is a button I must push? Apr-19-13    hms123: <chessgames.com> As long as we are putting in requests, I will make my annual plea to make Team games and World games pages searchable through <search kibitzing>. It would really be useful to be able to go back through once the game is over and (in the case of team games) the posts are merged. Apr-19-13    WannaBe: I have a request, too. Double cheeseburger with everything, extra pickles, home styled fries, and a large chocolate shake. Apr-19-13    Thanh Phan: Is there an orderly way to withdraw from the Battle of the Brains 4? Apr-19-13    hms123: <Thanh Phan> Just stop going to the game page. Don't vote. If you change your mind, you will be very welcome to resume participation. Apr-19-13    hms123: <WannaBe> <I have a request, too. Double cheeseburger with everything, extra pickles, home styled fries, and a large chocolate shake.> Make that two. Apr-19-13    Thanh Phan: <hms> express gratitude, is much appreciated, and take care Apr-20-13    OhioChessFan: I'll have a double peanut butter, banana, and bunny burger. Apr-20-13    Stonehenge: Opening Explorer 4...Ngf6 should be 4...Nf6, I believe. Apr-20-13    Phony Benoni: <Stonehenge> There are many cases of inconsistency throughout the Opening Explorer. For instance, in the position after <1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3> click for larger view White often moves the knight from g1 to e2 on his next turn. In the Opening Explorer, it is recorded differently for different Black responses: <4...0-0 5.Nge2> Opening Explorer <4...c5 5.Ne2> Opening Explorer <4...b6 5.Ne2> Opening Explorer <4...d5 5.Nge2> Opening Explorer Personally, while I understand the logic of using the shorter form, I prefer the longer as being simpler to explain and use. It's hard enough to figure out the next move without having to waste brain power deciding out how to notate it. By the way, there is a more serious glitch based on this inconsistency. If you are looking up games in the Opening Explorer using a sequence of moves and enter this: <1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Nge2 Ba6 6.Ng3 0-0> You will get none, because the OE does not "recognize" 5.Nge2 as a move which has been played in that position. Enter the string as: <1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 b6 5.Ne2 Ba6 6.Ng3 0-0> And everything is fine. Similarly, <1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 d5 5.Ne2 0-0> gets you nothing, since the Explorer has 5.Nge2. This can make the Explorer difficult to use, since you may not know beforehand which form is the one used. Apr-20-13    Stonehenge: Thanks, I guess the software isn't smart enough to recognize illegal moves such as 4...Ndf6 as in my example. Apr-20-13    chessgames.com: <inconsistency throughout the Opening Explorer> In principle we prefer the disambiguated notation (...Ngf6) even in situations where a pin makes the disambiguation unnecessary. That's what we prefer, not what we have. There are a few reasons why we prefer the longer notation, but moreover it's just good to be consistent. As illustrated, consistency is not what we have. A project to normalize all of those instances would be laudable. Apr-21-13    Eyal: <And in a few more days there's the Alekhine Memorial, btw> And now this day has arrived:-) http://www.alekhine-memorial.com/ev... Apr-21-13    whiteshark: <chessgames.com> I wonder why Marc Esserman isn't listed in the chessgames.com winning sac league? ChessGames.com Statistics Page I count 26 winning sacs out of 86 games listed in the db, that's roughly 30% and makes him #4 (right behind P. Morphy). Apr-21-13    chessgames.com: <I wonder why Marc Esserman isn't listed in the chessgames.com winning sac league?> Interesting question. It has something to do with the query's methodology. It says "Only players with at least 50 games in the database are considered. Players with ratings under 2000 are excluded." which is true, but there's even more to it than that. It makes a list of the 500 players with the most sacrifices (in total) and then compares them to the number of games they have played to get the percentage. So ultimately it doesn't really compare all 60,000+ players with one another, it only looks at 500 of them. The assumption behind the 500-limit was that it shouldn't matter if you look at the top 500 or top 50,000: you'll end up with the same list of winners, with a lot less work. You've just proved to us that this assumption is false (or perhaps it was true and became false at some point). So in the interest of experimentation I switched the figure to 750. Still no Esserman but I could see a new name or two appear in the list. Then I upped the figure to 1000. Bingo--there's Esserman exactly as you predicted! Except he isn't #4, because including him forced the inclusion of some new faces like Serafino Dubois who surely deserves his spot in that list as much as Marc. That's a great observation. We didn't realize the algorithm was skipping anybody of note. Marc Esserman can take pride in being the only modern player who made it to the top-10 list (disregarding Rybka!) Thanks. Apr-22-13    dakgootje: <ALERT> It appears round 2 of Alekhine Memorial started just now [aka: 1 hour pre chessbookie closing]. Apr-22-13    WannaBe: I like the new pic (animated gif?) when you try to post, and you are on their ignore list. =)) Apr-22-13    suenteus po 147: <WannaBe> Which ignoramus would be ignoramus enough to put you on his ignore list? I can scarcely believe it! Apr-22-13    WannaBe: <suenteus po 147> someone did. =)) Apr-23-13    OhioChessFan: I bet it was this guy: User: ElmerFudd Apr-23-13    Phony Benoni: Oh, great. Now I need to get somebody mad at me so I can see the graphic too. Apr-23-13    Stonehenge: <CG> The Wikipedia link in the bio here Camilla Baginskaite won't open in a new window, because it's an https thingy. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 596 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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