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Aug-01-13
 | | chessgames.com: <DIO> I know what you are saying, but for better or worse, it's our policy to never include losses in a player's notable games. |
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Aug-01-13
| | chessgames.com: <WCC Editing Project> There is a link to Tournament Index in the footer of every page, but we are thinking along your lines anyhow. We have plans on putting it very prominently on the homepage very soon. There's one tiny improvement we want to see first: a way to hone in on a specific year without meandering up and down the page numbers. |
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Aug-01-13
 | | WCC Editing Project: Good morning.
Thanks for such a prompt and encouraging reply, and I'm excited about this: <There's one tiny improvement we want to see first: a way to hone in on a specific year without meandering up and down the page numbers.> In fact this would be a gigantic super excellent improvement of the Tournament Index. I use this Index multiple times every day and the upcoming feature would make my tours much more convenient. |
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Aug-02-13
| | WCC Editing Project: Good evening.
Here is some exciting news from <kingcrusher>, who has decided to try combining some of our games collections with his video analysis: <kingscrusher> will start the experiment with a games collection from
User: MoonlitKnight, which can be found here: Game Collection: Immortal games You can hear the details from <kingscrusher> himself right here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxb4... |
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| Aug-02-13 | | Blunderdome: Is there a good way to look up who a player's most frequent opponents are? If not, would you consider adding such a feature? |
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Aug-02-13
| | chessgames.com: <Is there a good way to look up who a player's most frequent opponents are?> No, other than manual inspection of their game list. <If not, would you consider adding such a feature?> Yes, it's an excellent idea. It should be a small table on the player page: it could list the top (n) opponents, by number of games, and what the final score of each match-up is. |
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Aug-02-13
| | chessgames.com: <WCC Editing Project: Good evening> Hi there! That's excellent news from KingsCrusher and he couldn't have picked a more sparkling collection to start with. In other news, we added the "hone in" feature to our Tournament Index and a giant banner on the homepage should make it perfectly clear to everybody what a great new thing we have going on there. Thanks again for your tireless efforts, and the whole Bistro Bunch. |
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Aug-02-13
| | WCC Editing Project: Good afternoon.
Heh it's a "banner" day to be sure!
Thanks for your new <Hone In> feature, I just road tested it. I estimate this will save me up to 12 hours per day in research time. |
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| Aug-02-13 | | Bureaucrat: CG, thanks for the reply.
I realize that it is not easy to introduce permalinks when you want to keep the pages as "clean" as possible. However when users refer to posts found somewhere on CG, they are often unaware that the links they provide to those posts are useless to people with different ignore lists than themselves. Frogbert's "unparser" is useful for at least two reasons: 1. It includes permalinks to all posts on a page.
2. It fixes broken links in posts, so that if you copy a post that contains an url, your own post will contain the correct url (unlinke if you copy directly from the CG page). Would it be possible to make some kind of button that automatically opens an "unparsed" version of a cg.com page in a separate window? |
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| Aug-02-13 | | Bureaucrat: The unparser also fixes <diagrams>. For example, if I want to quote this post... Capablanca vs Tartakower, 1924 ...the unparser is very useful. The post contains diagrams and links to player pages, but those will be lost if you simply copy the content of the post from the CG page. By using the unparser, you get it all. By the way, the permalinks don't hit the target on game pages. Is that a bug? I first noticed with the above post (which is number two from the bottom on page 10, "May-06-12 Peligroso Patzer: This game is analyzed as Game #28..."). I did a quick "search kibitzing" on users that post a lot on game pages, and the permalinks got me to the right game page, but never to the right post. |
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Aug-02-13
 | | OhioChessFan: The tournament banner pic is absolute perfection. |
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Aug-02-13
| | chessgames.com: <By the way, the permalinks don't hit the target on game pages. Is that a bug?> My guess is that you're not witnessing a bug, but a little "gotcha!" in the way anchor tags work in browsers, specifically when you try to jump to a part of a page that is really close to the bottom. Since it's impossible to scroll down so far that the part you want is at the top of your monitor, it just goes down as far as it possibly can. Alternately perhaps one of those old bugs involving posts right on page boundaries has come to light again. You'd have to show me a specific example for me to say for sure. |
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Aug-02-13
| | chessgames.com: <absolute perfection> I'm flattered, OCF--thank you! We've received a few emails today about our "new" feature, all bursting with enthusiasm. One member wrote: <It's great and what a huge amount of work! My thanks and kudos for all the effort. Functionally it's superb.> |
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| Aug-02-13 | | rogge: Tournament Index is great. Well done! |
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| Aug-02-13 | | Blunderdome: <CG: Yes, it's an excellent idea. It should be a small table on the player page: it could list the top (n) opponents, by number of games, and what the final score of each match-up is.> Oh, glad you like the suggestion. I'll leave the coding up to you ;) Hope to see it implemented someday. |
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Aug-02-13
 | | juan31: Chessgames.com: Felicitaciones por el gran trabajo de Tournament Index. Es excelente |
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Aug-02-13
 | | Annie K.: ^ Can't argue with that! ;)
Srsly, congrats. |
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Aug-02-13
| | WCC Editing Project: Good evening.
<The Tournament Index banner pic is absolute perfection> Yes, featuring one of the mysterious and feared "Isle of Lewis" chess pieces. Here is a documentary about these fascinating, and terrifying, chess pieces: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N2e...
From the documentary, an account of their discovery by a farmer: <"The story goes he was frightened of them, thought they were sprites or devils or something like that... "> |
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Aug-03-13
 | | Richard Taylor: < chessgames.com: <Richard Taylor: I cant get any of the games on here to play the messages rave about plug ins etc but I cant understand any of it. What can I do?> Hi Richard, sorry to hear about plug-in problems. First of all if you haven't seen it yet, check out our Viewer Help Page page. Usually the problem has to do with your browser insisting that you use the latest version of Java. To do that I would suggest going to http://www.java.com/ and install the latest version (follow the big red button.) Finally be aware that as a method of last resort you can always flip over to "pgn4web" and it is virtually guaranteed to work.> Thanks. I'll try those things. I did download something but nothing happened. I'll try again using the info here. |
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| Aug-03-13 | | Karpova: <chessgames.com>
1) Quite a while ago, I submitted a Spielmann-Gebhard game from 1926 but it has not yet been uploaded - was there some mistake in the game score? All other games created the same way back then worked just fine and were uploaded. 2) Your username is a problem for the search kibitzing function. The . seems to be a involved as <"chessgames.com"> returns only posts containing <chessgamescom>. |
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Aug-03-13
| | chessgames.com: Karpova: as to the first point, we'll look into that. As for the second, one trick is to search for user:chessgames.com (assuming you want to search for things I post). There isn't a way to search for "chessgames.com" appearing in a post, similar to how you can't search for "chess" appearing in a post: you'll just get far too many results. |
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Aug-03-13
| | chessgames.com: <Karpova> I think your game was rejected as a duplicate due to our score Spielmann vs H Gebhardt, 1926 under the alternate spelling "Gebhardt". We even used it as a puzzle of the day back in 2007. |
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| Aug-03-13 | | Karpova: Thanks! This explains it. Even the 'Neue Wiener Schachzeitung' is consistent in their spelling of Gebhard(t). |
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Aug-03-13
| | chessgames.com: For what it's worth: sometime yesterday all of the Macintoshes in our office suddenly reported "inactive plugin" where the Chess Viewer Deluxe was supposed to be. Even though the words "inactive plugin" didn't look like a link, you could actually click on it--and when you did, voila, CVD returned fully functional. It seems that they are pushing out a new Java update and CVD users will have to go through a few hoops to get it working again. |
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Aug-03-13
 | | Peligroso Patzer: There is only one game between Moiseenko and Bacrot from the first round of the Biel (2013) playoff currently in the database (A Moiseenko vs Bacrot, 2013). Presumably there was a second game in which Bacrot had the White pieces. |
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