The new release seems to make good on Oracle's promise that unsigned applets will not run at all. This could be the coffin nail to Chess Viewer Deluxe (and a million other Java applets on other sites as well.)

Here at the office we're installing the new Java on machines one by one to examine the results. I can report on the Mac OS version:

<1> When you install the new version, you get an error "Application blocked by security settings."

<2> If you then go into "Apple Menu" > System Profile > Other (at the bottom) > Java > Reopen Java Profile > Security and note the "slider" that lets you choose "Very High", "High", and "Medium". ("Medium" is the lowest possible setting: pedants can now make fun of Oracle for not understanding what the word "medium" means.)

<3> "High" is the default and it will only allow Java applets with signed-certificates to run. Changing the setting to "Medium" will allow any Java applet to run after being presented with a security prompt.

<4> More importantly, there is a "whitelist" box where you can enter URLs of sites that you trust. This way you can effectively have a low-security setting for Chessgames and still remain Java-paranoid for the rest of the internet.

However if you enter "www.chessgames.com" into the box it doesn't seem to accept it. After some trial and error we discovered the trick: you must include the http:// prefix to make it accept the entry.

<5> Astonishingly, even if you whitelist chessgames.com for Java it *still* gives you a security prompt every time you want to open a game page, basically forcing you to click "OK" on every single page.

Again, the above information is only for Mac OS (tested on OSX 10.8.5). Other versions of OSX may work differently and of course Windows machines will work quite differently. However, it does imply that there must be some way to make Java work on Windows machines. I'll give a report on Windows 7 and 8 shortly once we go through the paces.

<1> Go to any game page. For instance today's puzzle of the day Kamsky vs A Giri, 2013 will work fine.

<2> Go to the menu which says <PGN Viewer: Chess Viewer Deluxe [SET]>

<3> Change the menu to read <pgn4web (default)> and click the [SET] button.

We have retained the "Dr." title for players of uncertain identity, for example Dr. Jover and Dr. R Steiner. If we ever get the full names of these people we'll drop the Dr. there as well.

In the end, we went from 186 doctors to 25.

We'll get to other titles soon: professors, reverends, etc.

<The winner of the 2013 Best Game Collection is <TheFocus> with Game Collection: 1970 Buenos Aires. Well done!>

but in the header it says:

<<9. Best Game Collection <->>

......

A definite improvement!

<perfidious: <cg> Would it also be possible (in at least some instances) to delete the middle names of some players?>

Dr Jana Whosit of the multiple marriages should, in my opinion, be shortened to Jana Bellin. Giving her maiden name, plus those of all her husbands, seems de trop. After all, one supposes that on being introduced, we should not be at all likely to refer to her as every name she bears here.

1. The person is commonly referred to with all three names, for whatever reason, like Robert James Fischer.

2. The person has a very common first and last name which would likely be duplicated if the middle name wasn't there, like Andrew Philip Smith.

3. A female player who married and should be searchable under both her current name and maiden name, Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant. (However in the case of divorce, or multiple divorces, this may not be desirable. Nobody comes here and searches for Jana Miles or Jana Hartson, so she might as well be Jana Bellin.)

4. The person might be confused with other players who share first and last name, Tigran Vartanovich Petrosian.

is per game header Tarrasch Defence Symmetrical Variation.

here it is Reti Opening

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

Mine, too.

Surely he's at least three.

That's your own fault for telling them they were corporate executives.

It is, and the current inconsistencies are a result of a muddled way of sorting out the openings.

You see, we have two programs that identify openings: one occurs the instant a game is uploaded, which just determines the ECO and the broad name of the ECO chapter.

The other software was added more recently and provides the extended names like <English Opening: Anglo-Indian Defense. Flohr-Mikenas-Carls Variation: Nei Gambit>.

If these two programs always agreed with one another everything would be rosy, but as you have noticed they can be inconsistent. Somehow there are games which have been not processed correctly.

I don't even know what to call his original username because he must be in the 2-300 range now..

But he's back on the So page.