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| Jul-04-13 | | Abdel Irada: <Nor confused with 'pound sand' either!> Ah. Another option for "Ehh, get a bag!"
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Jul-05-13
 | | chessgames.com: Trivia: just today we crossed the milestone of 3,000,000 kibitzes. Old timers will remember when we crossed the 1-million mark. May 23rd, 2007, we had fireworks go off on the homepage when the number was crossed. The winning post was NakoSonorense posting to Kibitzer's Café. |
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Jul-05-13
 | | Annie K.: ...but who's counting, right? ;)
Congratulations! :D |
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| Jul-05-13 | | TheFocus: Wow! I only have 991, 575 more posts to get to the Million post mark. |
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| Jul-05-13 | | TheFocus: <chessgames.com>< Trivia: just today we crossed the milestone of 3,000,000 kibitzes.
Old timers will remember when we crossed the 1-million mark. May 23rd, 2007, we had fireworks go off on the homepage when the number was crossed.> Why no fireworks this time? Not in the budget.
Although, fireworks yesterday would have been so cool. |
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| Jul-05-13 | | TheFocus: Who was the winner this time?
Anyway, congratulations on reaching 3M!! |
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Jul-06-13
 | | WannaBe: Okay, yes, I am an old-timer. I remember when <NakoSonorense> won. =) |
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| Jul-07-13 | | LIFE Master AJ: Borislav Ivanov The Ivanov page has (again) wandered off topic ... it would be nice if you could remove all the comments that are not directly related to this player and the problem of cheating ... |
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| Jul-07-13 | | mercy1023: I'm trying to send an email to chessgames.com to get help as to why the website keeps crashing when I'm using Opening Explorer, but the email keeps bouncing back implying that "spamcop" blocked it. Can anyone help? |
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| Jul-07-13 | | hms123: <mercy1023>
You might post details about the problem; e.g., version of IE, hardware, operating system, etc. on this forum. |
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Jul-07-13
 | | Domdaniel: For a couple of days, logging onto CG was like wading thru glue ... glad to hear I wasn't the only sufferer. I hope the DNS problem is solved now. |
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| Jul-08-13 | | LIFE Master AJ: I also noticed the site was very slow to load ... for over a week. |
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Jul-09-13
 | | kingscrusher: I just want to extend great thanks to Chessgames.com for the ability to kibitz now on Historical tournaments. How long has this been available?! Jessicafischerqueen told me about it recently. One of my favourite players ever is Mikhail Tal, and it is great to be able to comment on the Yugoslavia Candidates tournament of 1959 where he qualified to play Botvinnik: Bled-Zagreb-Belgrade Candidates (1959)
Cheers, K |
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Jul-09-13
| | kingscrusher: On a related note, is is possible to extend kibitzing to the Player vs Player pages e.g. search "fischer vs smyslov" I would really love to add some comments and speculations why Fischer had a good score against Smyslov. Maybe this would be good to have stylistic discussions - how one style might be able to cope with another. E.g. Korchnoi had a good record against Tal. |
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Jul-09-13
 | | OhioChessFan: Interesting idea, <kc> but I suspect ultimately untenable. I don't see any way that such pages would keep on topic and would just amount to one more area the admins would vainly try to herd cats. |
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Jul-09-13
| | Domdaniel: <I would really love to add some comments and speculations why Fischer had a good score against Smyslov. >
Why not simply post them on a representative Fischer-Smyslov game? |
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Jul-09-13
| | kingscrusher: Domdaniel - one game doesn't show the overall picture for any such stylistic debate. The ideal place would be those player vs player pages which also emphasise by default the classical game encounters score. Imagine the discussions if counter arguments can reference other games immediately listed on the page. |
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| Jul-09-13 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM>
Can we please have forums for these recently completed European minor tournaments: <2013 TEPLICE OPEN>
<2013 VORONEZH OPEN> <2013 LUBLIN UNION MEMORIAL> ? Thanks
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TWIC PGN FOR ALL 3 TOURNAMENTS -> http://www.theweekinchess.com/zips/... |
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Jul-09-13
 | | TheAlchemist: <kingscrusher> Imagine the Kasparov-Kramnik, Carlsen-So and other such pages, oh, the flames :-). Perhaps a suggestion in a similar vein, though I'm not sure if it's viable... comments could be added to game collections (a togglable user choice, perhaps?) and the maker of a collection would be the moderator. Then you could create a Fischer - Smyslov collection and comment away, while the administrators wouldn't have to police it so strictly, similarly to chessforums. |
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| Jul-10-13 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM>
Since the pairings just came out this morning, can we please have a forum for the <2013 FIDE WORLD CUP TROMSK>?? Thanks
PLAYERS PDF -> http://www.fide.com/images/stories/... PAIRINGS PDF -> http://www.chessworldcup2013.com/im... |
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| Jul-10-13 | | gauer: <kingscrusher> soon after last Hallowe'en, the crew of biographers was given a tool to standardize pgn headers of a game collection. A lot of the work is checking rounds and dates of old tournaments to match the bulletin advertisement information, or to produce a summary of the event. New Tournaments is one version of the index, where previously mostly there were big tournaments from the last decade. A player who has a notable performance at a tournament sometimes gets a link to the tournament from his player page. |
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Jul-10-13
| | Domdaniel: <comments could be added to game collections (a togglable user choice, perhaps?) and the maker of a collection would be the moderator. Then you could create a Fischer - Smyslov collection and comment away, while the administrators wouldn't have to police it so strictly, similarly to chessforums.> This is a great idea from <TheAlchemist> -- is it feasible, CG? |
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Jul-10-13
| | Annie K.: No - actually, Tryfon had asked for exactly that before, too. chessgames.com chessforum CG's answer was:
<That's one of those ideas that sounds great in principle, but the more you think about it, the more you realize it's a real can of worms. Remember, whomever starts a Game Collection will the eternal god of that page: they will be able to delete any post from it, or the entire collection if they please. Just look at the stir caused recently when somebody deleted messages from their chessforum; the game collection aspect might be 100 times worse. There is also the concern that people create game collections just for the sake of starting a discussion, especially a distasteful discussion. As things stand we give one "special" forum to each premium user, which is great, but giving each member an infinite bucket of forums?> I agree with <cg> there, it would be a mess - and giving kibitzing space to search results is probably plain impossible. A search could go any number of ways, and those are dynamic results pulled out of the database, not static pages. The historical tournaments are a great step forward already. For most things, I would guess it's possible to find some "close enough" page to post to. :) |
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Jul-10-13
| | chessgames.com: Thanks for locating that Annie. That's still pretty much our opinion on the idea. The notion of kibitzing on specific player match-ups is a bit more nuanced. At least then the forum can't be deleted on a whim, but there is still the question of whether we really want an astronomical number of forums for just that purpose. In that sense, it's a little like the suggestion to have kibitzing for every single position in the Opening Explorer. It sounds like a great idea, but the sheer magnitude of the kibitzing space should be enough to give one pause. That's not to say it's a bad idea, but if nothing else, there would have to be some constraints on which searches qualify for kibitzing. If not we'll open up a bottomless pit of new forums. After all, if "Fischer vs Smyslov" is a topic, so must be "Fischer vs Sherwin", and "Fischer vs Greenblatt (Computer)", etc. |
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Jul-10-13
| | chessgames.com: <2013 FIDE WORLD CUP TROMSK> Coming! We plan on covering the games live in some capacity. |
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