<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.>

On this topic, some of our members who have done, and who do, seriously huge amounts of PGN upload submissions are becoming increasingly frustrated with this exact point:

They would like some kind of automated system that tells them- promptly- that a certain PGN was rejected, and why.

Is it possible to write some code to do this?

I know some of the most dedicated PGN uploaders are so frustrated by this lack of specific feedback on PGN rejections that they are feeling like giving up, and not bothering to make any more mass uploads.

It's these mass uploads that made this possible in the first place: Tournament Index

I post this here and now because I noticed you were able kindly to help <Karpova> on a reason for PGN rejection.

But I'm assuming that uploaders asking you for that information here isn't the ideal solution?

Please look into a software solution to this, an automated response, maybe keyed to an automated email sent to the uploading members?

Thank you so much if you can do anything about this.

Perhaps some kind of a (spartan) log file?

Nice but probably too unrealistic would be a personal game submission page like <<click here> to see Obnoxious Jerk's game collections> page.

Fressinet,Laurent (2626) - Yagupov,Igor (2559) [D48]
Biel MTO op Biel (10), 2006

Sorry to be in here so often lately, but I have an editing question.

The Historical tournament index is absolutely brilliant.

One small thing I noticed and I think might be a good idea for a bit more polish is having definitely "Next" and "Previous" for series events on for example the US Championship:

US Championship 1958/59 (1958)

Sometimes there is a virtual "Next" and sometimes there is a virtual "Previous" to go from one US championship to another on two examples I found. Perhaps all US Chess championships can have both "Next" and "Previous" to navigate across the whole chain.

Thanks so much for telling me how to make the "big italics" in the games collection intros! Very appreciated. I have begun to use your TOP SECRET method already. The WWC Project editors will be happy about this, since they'll actually be able to read the text now.

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On the PGN upload improvement front, I noticed that you have in fact been planning a new system for some time, a kind of "sandbox", that sounds something like what <Karpova> was just talking about?

Here are some of your tantalizing posts from the past on this PGN Sandbox:

28 Apr 09 <as we are working on an alternate system to completely replace the current PGN Upload Utility we are not longer making changes to that software.>

14 Aug 10 <However we don't want to spend any more time improving the current submission software since plans are underway to replace it entirely.>

2 Oct 11 <One of the many side-effects of the <<<Sandbox>>> will be to revolutionize the method of game submission. For that reason, we're not interesting in spending time on tiny incremental improvements to the current upload system.>

I really hope you haven't given up on the planned "sandbox" feature.

When you get the Super PGN Sandbox feature up and running, you're going to have a great number of happy, happy biographers around.

Can we please have a forum for the <2013 POLITIKEN CUP>, which ended today and was won by Parimarjan Negy with the great score of <9/10>?

Thanks

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TWIC DOSSIER -> http://www.theweekinchess.com/chess...

Politiken Cup (2013)

Damn, that was fast! :-)

<Yakovich,Yuri (2530) - Sorokin,Maxim (2500)> [D48] Kolkata op Kolkata, 1991

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Bd3 Bb7 9.0–0 a6 10.e4 c5 11.d5 c4 12.Bc2 Qc7 13.Nd4 Nc5 14.b4 cxb3 15.axb3 b4 16.Na4 Ncxe4 17.dxe6 Rd8 18.exf7+ Kxf7 19.Be3 Bd6 20.h3 Rhe8 21.Rc1 Qa5 22.Bd3 Kg8 23.Nc6 Bxc6 24.Rxc6 Qe5 25.f4 Qe7 26.Bb6 Qd7 27.Qc2 Rb8 28.Rc4 Nc3 29.Nxc3 Rxb6 30.Ne4 Bb8 31.Nxf6+ gxf6 32.Bf5 Qa7 33.Kh1 Bd6 34.Rc8 Rxc8 35.Qxc8+ Kg7 36.Rf3 Qc7 37.Rg3+ Kh6 38.Qg8 Bxf4 39.Qf8+ Kh5 40.Qe8+ Kh6 41.Rg6+ 1–0

<Bureaucrat> We just did some testing on a few mobile devices around here, with wildly varying results. It seems that after all these years, the "anchor tag" feature still does not perform consistently (or even works!) across all platforms.

<<I really hope you haven't given up on the planned "sandbox" feature.> We haven't spoken of it lately precisely because we have begun work on it. I have to stay tight lipped on the details for the time being. I can say that we expect to unveil at least a beta-version prior to the WCC in November.>

Thank you so much, this is truly outstanding news.

It would be excellent to have a <"beta Sandbox PGN uploading feature"> up and running by the WCC in November, that's just around the corner.

I should think "beta" testing is a good idea as well in such a challenging case, particularly on such an important feature.

I have every confidence that sooner, rather than later, you will have the <PGN Sandbox> up, running, and working bug free.

<China-USA Chess Summit
Ningbo, China
Jul 19-27
5 classical and 10 rapid games with teams of 5 men and 5 women playing each other. Top seeds are Ray Robson and Wang Yue. China crushed, winning the classical <31-19> and the rapid 70.5-29.5.>

But looking at the games in
China-USA Chess Summit (2013), I see 50 Games, 28 of them decisive (14 white wins and 14 black wins) and 22 draws.

Of the 28 decisive games, I see 7 U.S. wins:

Men:
Zhou Weiqi vs Robson, 2013 (Robson) -- Kaidanov vs Zhou Weiqi, 2013 (Kaidanov) --Xiu Deshun vs S Shankland, 2013 (Shankland) -- Lu Shanglei vs Robson, 2013 (Robson)

Women:
S Foisor vs Tan Zhongyi, 2013 (Foisor) -- T Abrahamyan vs Ding Yixin, 2013 (Abrahamyan) -- Wang Jue vs T Abrahamyan, 2013 (Abrahamyan)

That would mean China had 21 wins with 22 draws, and the U.S. had 7 wins with 22 draws.

You're right, I did miss that one. Thank you. I must be going blind to have missed it.