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Jun-16-13
 | | WannaBe: LIFE MASTER aj. =)) |
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| Jun-16-13 | | brankat: Yes, perhaps it time his games are made available for kibitzing again. |
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Jun-16-13
 | | chessgames.com: I'm not sure if that was a joke or not, but for the record here's how it works: If you've seen enough player pages you've surely noticed that there is a "short form" and "long form". The reason is simple: players rated below 2300 do not qualify for "notable games" or "game collections", or the Repertoire Explorer, or a number of other features that you can find on the pages of bigger IMs / GMs. For the "great masters" before the era of ratings, the situation is not so clean-cut. It takes an admin to flag the player as being worthy of the long-header. Begin thus flagged makes the player eligible for other considerations like being in the Player Directory and so forth. We like to think that we've flagged 99.9% of all the important players of those eras but it's possible that we've missed a few. So one explanation for Karpova's problem is that the player in question is in dire need of being flagged by an admin as a "great master". |
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Jun-16-13
 | | OhioChessFan: <Begin thus flagged> Getting into the Bookie's moonshine? |
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| Jun-17-13 | | brankat: Perhaps You could make an exception in at least 1 case, and drop the limit to 2200? :-) |
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| Jun-17-13 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM> Here is a <SUGGESTION>: <<have links that contain all the tacitcal puzzles for a given day>> 1) One link to all the MONDAY puzzles
2) A second link to all the TUESDAY puzzles
etc.
This would make it very easy for us users to work on puzzles of a fixed difficulty level. That is, if I want to solve some "Very Easy" puzzles, I can just clock the "MONDAY" link and voila!, lots of easy puzzles to solve. Thanks |
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| Jun-17-13 | | Karpova: <chessgames.com> the player in question is Georg Rotlewi and he already has a notable game collection - Game Collection: All Russian Amateur (St. Petersburg, 1909) (so nothing focusing on him specifically). |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: I may have oversimplified the situation earlier when I said that it's done daily. True, a script run daily, but that script doesn't reprocess every single player. It starts off recomputing players who are in the most dire need of recomputing (the ones who have had games added or deleted) and then it goes on a short spree recomputing some of the other players, focusing on the ones that have been waiting the longest. So in short, it would have refreshed at some point, but God knows when. I just forced a reprocess of Rotlewi's page and sure enough Karpova's collection showed up, in the #1 spot even. |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: <notyetagm> That's a undeniably useful idea. We do plan on implementing some kind of feature of the type you describe, but until that day, I believe Phony Benoni has some excellent game collections which encapsulate that concept. For example see Game Collection: Monday Puzzles, 2011-2013. |
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| Jun-17-13 | | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
I don't mind if you think my suggestion is a bad or discarded idea. I was just wondering. |
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Jun-17-13
| | OhioChessFan: <nyag> in the meantime, <PhonyBenoni> collects all of them. phony benoni's Game Collections |
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Jun-17-13
| | OhioChessFan: My wish list is a link to the tournament page on live game pages. |
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| Jun-17-13 | | whiteshark: Women Grand Prix has started in Dilijan, Armenia
Tournament page: http://dilijan2013.fide.com/ |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: <twinlark> Sorry, your suggestion deserved a well thought response and I wasn't sure what to say at first. About <"slightly specific" pages>, or what you might call "less specific" pages. I can imagine the topics you have in mind would be things like the interzonals which you mentioned, the Grand Prix circuit, FIDE in general, USCF politics, and just recently somebody was looking for a place to discuss computers in chess. We have 500 pages to discuss specific openings, but where do we go to discuss opening play in general? In some rare cases a user has dedicated a chess forum to a topic. The most notable example being M61MG Wrestler chessforum (which has now been granted an honorary lifetime status). But it's unrealistic and undesirable to go through that process for every topic that people might want to discuss. So the question comes, how to do it? If we allow any user to make any thread on demand, we'd run into some problems with duplicity, vanity, and more. If admins "bless" certain subjects and grant forums for that purpose, sort of like with the Biographer Bistro, we'd certainly accomplish much of what your asking although we'd undoubtably leave out many important topics. In short, I think it's a good and well intentioned idea but exactly how we would go about it from a managerial point of view is still a bit unclear. |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: <OhioChessFan: My wish list is a link to the tournament page on live game pages.> Click on "All Rounds" to the right of the diagram. |
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Jun-17-13
| | chessgames.com: FIDE Women's Grand Prix Dilijan (2013) |
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| Jun-17-13 | | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
<If admins "bless" certain subjects and grant forums for that purpose, sort of like with the Biographer Bistro, we'd certainly accomplish much of what your asking although we'd undoubtably leave out many important topics.> Yes, although each one you do add would reduce the number of important topics that are presently lacking discussion pages. |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Thanh Phan: I see nothing wrong with <MarkFinan>s request. If anything is more damaging to this site then his comment, it would be the Rogoff page. Yet many agree that helps focus the political kibitzing to one page |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Eyal: <CG> The time controls for the Tal Memorial posted on the live broadcast page (Start with 100 minutes. At move 40, add 50 minutes. At move 60, add 15 minutes and 15s/move thereafter) are inaccurate - there's a 30s increment, and it starts from move 1. See section 4 of the regulations - http://russiachess.org/upload/ibloc... |
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Jun-18-13
| | chessgames.com: Thanks Eyal. |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Tiggler: Do you have any news about a fresh Java problem?
I just got a warning about an obsolete java version that popped up when I visited one of your games pages. The pop-up took me to a download site that looked legit, but when I used it my security software warned me about an unsafe, unsigned source, so I bailed. I'm about ready to give up on Java altogether. |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Robed.Bishop: <Tiggler> I use an Apple and also received the update pop-up when going to a game page. I ran the update without an issue. |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Tiggler: <Robed.Bishop> Thanks. I'll just wait awhile though, 'cos I'm the cautious type. I can manage without any cg.com games for the moment. Chessbomb has the Tal Memorial games, and I can still kibitz here. |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Alien Math: About Java for OS X 2013-003
Apple on Tuesday released a pair of Java SE 6 updates for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion, by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_45.As of this writing, the updates have yet to hit Apple's Support Downloads webpage, but the software should be ready for download shortly. Snow Leopard users can get the 69.39MB update here http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1573 while Macs running Lion and Mountain Lion can download the 63.92MB update here. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1572 |
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| Jun-18-13 | | Alien Math: Apple various d/l page http://support.apple.com/downloads/ |
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