<ERROR: You are limited to 400 games per collection.>

<restarted my pc> Never a bad idea when things seem strange.

<and seems it worked, but not 100%. I still need to click the refresh button at least, twice.> Often when I hear of problems like that it's a cache setting on the browser, especially for MSIE users.

This graphic illustrates:

http://www.udel.edu/sakai/help/cont...

Note that for "Check for newer versions of stored pages" the correct setting should be "Automatically" or better still, "Every time". The other two settings are rarely appropriate.

1. I've been spending time in the Pun Voting Booth lately and the experience can only be described as M Fuller vs M Pein, 1979. I remember you throwing away - and having a good laugh at - the really bad puns a year and a half ago (chessgames.com chessforum)... but what actually prompted my inquiry was seeing a pun with no game attached, presumably because the game had been deleted. Is there any automated mechanism in place to tag a pun for deletion when the relevant game no longer exists, or is that simply too rare an occurrence to be worth an extra couple lines of code?

2. The Librarian is doing a great job on the whole (thanks!), but for some reason nothing seems to happen when I point out incorrect sacrifice indicators. I'd have thought removing bad sac indicators would be relatively painless as no deep research or triple-checking is required - is there a technical issue involved that makes such things difficult to fix, or means corrections don't show up in the database at once?

3. <chessgames.com: <Would you care to make an explicit statement about [Holiday Hunt] clues offered by members?> We think that would be a good idea; give us some time to figure out our policy.>

<but what actually prompted my inquiry was seeing a pun with no game attached, presumably because the game had been deleted. Is there any automated mechanism in place to tag a pun for deletion when the relevant game no longer exists> No, there's no automated function for that. I don't think that happens very often, and I can delete them on sight. I often delete really bad puns when I see them in the queue, although there are many puns it's an impossible task to keep up with.

<The Librarian is doing a great job on the whole (thanks!), but for some reason nothing seems to happen when I point out incorrect sacrifice indicators.> You know, she's been forwarding a lot of those to me lately. Her chess skills are maybe 1200 Elo tops, so she doesn't like making decisions that require actual chess skill, so she likes to run them by me. I should tell her that we can pretty much trust people when they complain about bad sacrifice indications.

In fact, perhaps editing Sacrifice Explorer data could be one of the issues relegated to CG Editors.

I think I'll run it on those two tournaments and it's likely those games will not survive.

Good afternoon.

Remember when I was complaining that when you type <Petrov> into the search box, it wouldn't cough up Vladimir Petrov, but then you fixed it?

I'm talking about the search box in the upper left hand corner of our main page.

The same thing is happening with this player: Carel Benjamin van den Berg

If you type <van den Berg> into the search box, nothing comes up.

In order to get this link, I had to google his name + the word "chess."

Might you fix this guy up like you did for <Petrov>?

I already had this discussion with <Annie> when I asked <Daniel> to fix the "Petrov" results from the upper left corner search box.

I think a lot of the punters, especially the thick ones, automatically use the search box in the upper left hand corner. It's easy to see and only has one word on it- "search."

These punters I speak of find the bewildering array of boxes and "typed information" in the main search box bewildering.

I'm sure you won't find it hard to believe that I was here at cg.com on a daily basis for more than six (6) years before I even realized where the "main search box" was. <Annie> gave me explicit written instructions on how to find it and I still had to ask her a second time.

At any rate, I think I'm right about this. I think a lot of people use the upper left hand corner search box, so for that reason alone this box is worth maintaining.

He can. I don't doubt that for a second.

The thing is that it's not just van den Berg. If they fix van den Berg, what next? Van der Wal? Van der Sterren? Van Elteren? There are tons of people named "van" something that the EZ search doesn't work properly with, so it's not really worth "fixing" just one - and even if they write more sweeping code that solves the issue for all players named van X (which would be a real improvement) they're still left with some 30,000 players who can't be located with an EZ search for their surname, simply because they share it with a better-known player.