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Nov-26-13
 | | WCC Editing Project: Good morning.
Houston, I have a problem.
A few days ago I noticed that some of the words and names I've previously typed at CG.com have lost their punctuation, which has been replaced by a black rectangle set on edge with a question mark in the middle. Example:
On your screen, can you see the rectangle I'm talking about? <"Shakhmatny v. SSSR�> Can you see the rectangle right after SSSR?
That used to be a quotation mark like this-
<"Shakmatny v. SSSR"> on my profile, but now it has changed. Several other quotation marks on my profile, and also my games collections, have changed to this mystery rectangle. I have tested this on two different computers at my house and I get the same result. Is there something gone wrong with your punctuation code? Can you please take a look at the html code for on my profile and let me know if anything is wrong from your end? If you can't see the "mystery rectangle" on your computer than I'll know the problem is at my end, but I doubt it is. For example, when I just retyped
<"Shakmatny v. SSSR"> here in your forum, it comes out fine. But the original typing I did of this in my profile has converted the last quotation mark to a mystery rectangle. If you look at my profile, you'll see several punctuation marks have changed to the mystery rectangle. Here are some other examples from my profile:
“Chess Note 3428.�
"La Naci��
"The Russell Collection�
And here is an example from one of my games collections: Game Collection: WCC: Steinitz-Gunsberg 1890 the adjourned Steinitz � Chigorin cable match
Please help me? I just noticed this happening a few days ago and it seems I'm finding more and more of them... |
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Nov-27-13
| | WCC Editing Project: HOUSTON:
I also tested this on several different browsers but same result every time. ahhh |
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Nov-27-13
 | | Tabanus: Houston, Dallas, Texas, Cape Canaveral, Pentagon, CG: The "ready-to-nominate" Game Collection: Amsterdam Candidates 1956 has now waited several weeks for its one single missing game Petrosian-Szabo. |
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Nov-27-13
 | | chessgames.com: <Tabanus> Sorry, we've got it now: Petrosian vs Szabo, 1956. <WCC Editing Project> Those rectangles mean that there is an unknown Unicode symbol there, which is usually the result of a misconversion from one text encoding to another. It can easily happen when you use things like MS Word to create a document and then try to paste it somewhere that uses a different encoding. In these particular cases it looks like a discrepancy between normal quotations and "open / close quotations." Illustration:
"These are normal quotes, and preferred."
“These are curly quotes, and not recommended.”
When you say "typed" do you really mean copy-and-pasted? |
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Nov-27-13
 | | FSR: The site has no picture of GM Marie Sebag. Wikimedia Commons has a picture of her. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/... |
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| Nov-27-13 | | LIFE Master AJ: Carlsen vs Anand, 2013, (Game Five). Be nice - if you have the time - to remove all the non-chess stuff there. |
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Nov-27-13
| | Tabanus: <CG> Thanks! If voted in, rounds 10 & 11 will (automatically) get site Amsterdam instead of Leeuwarden. |
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Nov-27-13
| | WCC Editing Project: <HOUSTON>
Brilliant! I think you have solved my problem. Yes there was cutting and pasting involved back and forth from MICROSOGGY WORD documents to our profile and games collections. This is why they pay you the big money.
Thank you, I'm very relieved. |
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| Nov-27-13 | | Abdel Irada: Curly quotes not recommended and coming up as "mystery rectangles"? Oh dear. This will cripple one of our <Kenneth Rogoff> regulars. :-D ∞ |
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Nov-27-13
| | chessgames.com: <WCC Fields> No problem :) |
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| Nov-27-13 | | technical draw: < <WCC Fields> No problem :)> Is chessgames.com actually making a pun? |
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Nov-27-13
 | | Check It Out: CG.com: another bug I've been noticing the last few weeks or so: When I go to my jprofile and look at my recent kibitzing section, There's a bit of scrambling. For example, the forum name won't be there, it'll be next to another forum name. There will be posts listed, but not the forum they were listed at. I just checked right now and it is a bit scrambled as we speak. Are you aware of this glitch?
TIA |
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Nov-27-13
| | chessgames.com: I'm not exactly sure what you mean. I'm looking at your profile now and everything seems correct. Could you give a specific example? |
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| Nov-27-13 | | LIFE Master AJ: <WCC> You can solve your problem by "cutting-and-pasting" from Word to the clipboard (notepad or such) and then copy and paste from there. I have known about that trick for years, (from working with my web pages); sorry I did not notice your dilemma earlier. Here is an experiment you can try: Try "copy-and-paste" code (say, for a free web page counter) directly from MSIE to your web page, you ARE going to get mistakes and problems ... I am not sure of the exact reason why ... |
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Nov-27-13
| | Check It Out: CG: I've sent you an email with a screenshot of the problem. |
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Nov-27-13
| | WCC Editing Project: <LIFE Master AJ>
Thank you very much for your tip!
I will use your method from now on. |
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| Nov-28-13 | | LIFE Master AJ: <WCC> You are welcome, glad I could help! |
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| Nov-28-13 | | LIFE Master AJ: I am not an expert, but I think that TOO MUCH stuff comes out of MSWord, sometimes you have to "just dumb things down a bit." |
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| Nov-28-13 | | thegoodanarchist: CG.com Could you please add a link at the bottom & top of the page that will take the user to the pun submission page? I've been there before, and I want to submit a pun now, but for the life of me I cannot find it. IMO it should be as easy to find as guess the move, opening explorer, etc. |
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Nov-28-13
 | | Annie K.: Pun Submission Page
<thegoodanarchist> the link is on the right side of the homepage, right under the Game of the Day Archive. :) |
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Nov-28-13
| | chessgames.com: <Annie K> Ha! I had forgotten about that one myself. Thanks for reminding me where the link is. <AJ> We removed the off-topic comments, yours included. <All> Happy Thanksgiving to our American members and to everybody who is in the spirit. |
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Nov-28-13
| | chessgames.com: Also note the new link at the top of Game of the Day Archive. |
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| Nov-28-13 | | thegoodanarchist: < Annie K.: Pun Submission Page <thegoodanarchist> the link is on the right side of the homepage, right under the Game of the Day Archive. :)> Aha, there it is! Right under the link to the little chess partner. Thank you!! <chessgames.com: Also note the new link at the top of Game of the Day Archive.> cg.com I still maintain it should be in the header and footer along with other highly desired links. But no worries now, I have the link posted in my forum. |
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| Nov-28-13 | | thegoodanarchist: <chessgames.com: ...
<All> Happy Thanksgiving to our American members and to everybody who is in the spirit.> TYVM! Back at you :) |
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| Nov-28-13 | | davide2013: Would it be possible to add this game to Guess the Move?
J Bruehl vs Philidor, 1783
It is not perfect, but GM Alterman uses it as example of Philidor's ideas. From this game is possible to learn about many positional rules:
Importance of the center,
Importance of the pawn structure,
Pawn chains
Bad bishops vs good knights, and how to use them.
Space advantage, and good outposts.
Practically in one game there are many positional themes shown. |
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