Can we please have a forum for the <2013 BIEL MASTERS OPEN>, won by Harikrishna with <8.5/11>?

Thanks

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Although I must admit, it's quite tricky to get it done, but doesn't it look beautiful, and the content is not bad either, I hope.

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To anybody who might know it:

I know the "user:" parameter, but is there also a "date:" parameter? If not, I'd like to know how to search for kibitzes with a certain date.

<How can that black Queen be on b5 ???? with the white Bishop and the white Knight covering it?> submitted on J Vetemaa vs Shabalov, 1986>.

This is also a great correction slip because it's testament to the deliciousness of moves such as this, not to mention "chess blindness," from the game in question:

Black to play:

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20...Qb5?!#&%$

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Queen is immune! And yet the visual illusion that the <b5> square is guarded twice is very, very powerful.

Where's User: notyetagm when we need him...

From his forum, and directly applicable to this case:

<<THE NUMBER OF TIMES A SQUARE IS ATTACKED AND DEFENDED CAN BE COMPUTED ONLY AFTER -ALL- THE THREATS THAT CURRENTLY EXIST IN THE POSITION AND THEIR -SEVERITY- (--) , AE WELL AS ALL THE THREATS THAT -CAN- -BE- -MADE- AND THEIR SEVERITY (++), HAVE BEEN TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.>>

Regarding Game collections, I like working my way through game collections (especially to do videos) and was wondering if it were possible to allow seeing which games you have already opened up more explicitly - e.g. with Big Ticks to the right of the games to indicate ones already viewed. I think they have something like this on analogous Youtube playlists - videos you have seen are highlighted by fading them slightly.

For example, take the following collection by Morphy:

Game Collection: Paul Morphy -The Great Chess Genius

This has been the subject of a few of my video shows recently but I need to constantly check the last games I viewed.

Is it possible to somehow have an option on collections like "Emphasise viewed games", or "Emphasise played-through games" which might even distinguish if you just opened up the game or actually played through the moves.

I think many members might find it useful for collections they are studying.

For one example, you can search on your computer for a document that you don't remember whether you saved as .txt or .doc, with Missing_Document.* (or you can search for all .txt files with *.txt).

In my above example, searching for 'sac' here on cg, will not give you posts where the full word "sacrifice" appears instead, but if we had wildcard search here, a search for 'sac*' would give you all those results as well (plus a lot of posts about sacrilege, etc.) ;)

More user-friendly search interfaces do "wildcard" searches without actually needing the * symbol; in fact, the algorithm <cg> is already using to <highlight> the search term in the posts it returns after a search, seem to have this ability already.

For a much more to-the-point example (for me) - when I do a search for my name, to see who is addressing me around here, and type 'Annie' in the search form, I will not see posts where I was addressed as 'AnnieK'; I have to do a separate search to find those. However, if I search for 'Annie', and the resulting post <also> includes the 'AnnieK' string (for example, any one of my posts in which I posted one of my FICS games, where my handle is AnnieK), the highlighting algorithm will spot and highlight those instances as well!

Two wrinkles, off the top of my head:

First, a matter of raw computing power: if we used the feature for your intended purpose we'd have to save that data much longer than 30 days, possibly indefinitely.

Second, it's a trick distinguishing between merely having opened the page and actually going through the game. Not impossible, but it would take some finesse.

When you type "Kramnik queen sacrifice" into Search Kibitzing it gets a result from the database of every kibitz that contains those three words, in chronological order. This is no small feat. To do this efficiently, it has dictionary file already preloaded with every word that can possibly be searched on: "Kramnik", "queen", "sacrifice", "Qd7", "polypropylene you name it. This way it doesn't need to look at all 3 million+ kibitzing records. To be able to do substring searches it really would have to look at all the records, which means the search would not only be very slow but get slower every day.

Once the results are gathered, however, the hard work is over, and there are only so-many results per page maximum, so highlighting the results is simple.