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Feb-15-21 chessgames.com chessforum    chessgames.com: Dear Chessgames.com members: We've recently become aware of a technical difficulty with the "engine" server, which is used for game/move analysis. It appears that a hardware failure may be responsible for making the analysis engine unavailable. We're actively ...      Jan-22-21 Santa Claus    chessgames.com: Dear chessgames members: Santa Claus <finally> got around to sending us his list of lucky winners for this year's "Dear Santa" contest! We thank Santa for his diligence, and have learned that his tardiness in providing his list was <unavoidable> due to ...      May-31-20 Chessgames Bookie chessforum    chessgames.com: <♕♔♕ Bettors and Worse ♕♔♕> As we start this year's ChessBookie cycle with the Summer Leg, I would first like to thank our fearless new Bookie <jingohanson>, who made it possible to continue the game. Next, I hereby announce in ...      Mar-14-20 World Championship Candidates (2020/21)    chessgames.com: Everybody please keep the political bickering off this page.      Feb-22-20 Kibitzer's Café    chessgames.com: May I humbly request a change from REM, <Hazz> You decide. :)      Mar-12-19 Spring Chess Classic (A) (2019)    chessgames.com: We've added the games through Round 9 for the St. Louis Spring Chess Classic (Group A).      Mar-08-19 Prague Chess Festival (Challengers) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for the Prague Chess Festival Masters and Challengers sections, and we'll include the Open section results as they become available. For news & details, see the official site at http://praguechessfestival.com/      Mar-08-19 Prague Chess Festival (Masters) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for the Prague Chess Festival Masters and Challengers sections, and we'll include the Open section results as they become available. For news & details, see the official site at http://praguechessfestival.com/      Mar-08-19 World Team Chess Championship (Women) (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for Rounds 1-3 of both the Open and Women's sections of the 2019 FIDE World Team Chess Championship. For news & details, see the official site at http://wteams.astana2019.fide.com/e...      Mar-08-19 World Team Chess Championship (2019)    chessgames.com: Games have now been added for Rounds 1-3 of both the Open and Women's sections of the 2019 FIDE World Team Chess Championship. For news & details, see the official site at http://wteams.astana2019.fide.com/e...

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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 681 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jan-31-14    WCC Editing Project: <Magical Dwarf Master> Yes it's sinking in now that you've told me twice. I think <Daniel> made an exception for <Vladimirs Petrovs> because I compared not being able to find him in the "EZ Barcalounger" with the Soviets trying to erase him from history. In the case of <Carel "Ice" van den Berg> and his cousins, I'm forced to agree with you, even though I still only dimly understand what you're saying. Yes, that's how much I trust you. Jan-31-14    chessgames.com: <Switching> Thanks for being our spokesperson. (Seriously: you explained the scenario very well.) Google (et al) have us all spoiled because their search technology is so wonderful we've come to take it for granted. When I was in college I used a computerized library catalog (one of the first in the country!) that was so fussy if you searched for "C DICKENS" it would return no results because you failed to spell out the first name. These days you can go to Google and ask for "Chardles Dikkens" and it will say "Showing results for Charles Dickens." (Try it if you're skeptical: https://www.google.com/#q=Chardles+...) We wish we could offer a search as flexible and intuitive as Google, but there's no way we'll ever be up to their standards. We do have some specific improvements in mind for our EZ Search, though. Jan-31-14    Domdaniel: If you input 'Carel' into the Advanced Search, it throws up seven players of that name -- and, I think, 262 of 285 games belong to Carel van den Berg. Clearly, the Advanced Search is much more powerful. Anyone who seriously explores the CG database (or who plays in the annual Clue Hunt) must be familiar with it. I'm not really sure that we need the Quick Search at all. Advanced Search is an excellent tool, and I can see no reason why everyone should not use it. <Everyone> may think differently, of course. Jan-31-14    WCC Editing Project: <Dom> Are you suggesting we raze the "kiddie rollercoaster" at <FunWorld>? Oh what times we live in, when Irishmen can say "Nit" to old women... Jan-31-14    Domdaniel: < when Irishmen can say "Nit" to old women...> But clearly not with impunity... Jan-31-14    WannaBe: http://www.zurich-cc.com/pairings.h... The score system for Zurich need to be adjusted, win +2, draw +1 Jan-31-14    chessgames.com: Zurich uses 3-1-0 scoring? Cool, thanks. Is that true for the blitz and rapid events as well? Jan-31-14    chessgames.com: KKDEREK, you've seen the Java Help Page right? The important section is <HOW TO "WHITELIST" CHESSGAMES.COM FOR JAVA OPERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM>. Once you find the Java control panel on your machine it should be relatively easy. Jan-31-14    WannaBe: No, no, no, they use a 2-1-0 system... read the link and my post. Jan-31-14    WCC Editing Project: <GENEIOUS>! Thank you <chessgames.com> I had never noticed your special Java Help Page before I saw your post there today. In the <HOW TO "WHITELIST" CHESSGAMES.COM FOR JAVA OPERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM> section, I followed every single order, in order, and it worked! <Protip:> When you get to the screen where you type in our web address, don't copy and paste it- type it in manually, and you <<<must>>> type it EXACTLY like this for it to work: h ttp://www.chessgames.com/ Notice I put a space between the "h" and the "ttp" so that you can see the actual address on this page. When you type the address into the Java Box, don't put this space in. If you miss typing in even one character it won't work. Now I am WHITELISTED and when I click on one of our games, no security warning! It's a bloody miracle. Seriously, thank you. Feb-01-14    chessgames.com: <they use a 2-1-0 system> Oh, I see. In that way the rapid section counts towards the overall winner. For our purposes, it's a normal scoring system. Feb-02-14    RedShield: Don't forget to chase up the Aronian-Gelfand rapid exhibition game from yesterday. Feb-02-14    chessgames.com: Thanks RedShield, will do. Feb-02-14    chessgames.com: Here you go: Gelfand vs Aronian, 2014 Feb-02-14    chessgames.com: On a related note, does anybody know where to get the PGN to the "Battle of the Sexes" in Gibraltar from the other day? Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnch... Feb-02-14    LIFE Master AJ: I used to have two pages in my header ... I do not know what became of them I do not recall erasing them. #1.) Kibitzing trips + symbols. #2.) Chess-dot-com record-holders ... ... And do you still have the playing area? I used to visit a lot, but I have not now in a long time. Feb-03-14    chessgames.com: <#1.) Kibitzing [tricks] + symbols.> Kibitzing Tricks <#2.) Chess-dot-com record-holders … > I have no idea what that is. <... And do you still have the playing area? I used to visit a lot, but I have not now in a long time.> We've pretty much abandoned it, hoping to find better software to accomplish the same thing, but we do still have it online at Chessgames Playing Zone. Feb-03-14    chessgames.com: By the way, the link to Kibitzing Tricks is found on every preview page while you make a kibitz. Just click below, under the "Tip", where it says <See our Kibitzing Help page for tips & tricks.> Don't worry about losing your post as it will appear in a pop-up window. Feb-03-14    Annie K.: <<#2.) Chess-dot-com record-holders … > I have no idea what that is.> I'm going to guess he means the ChessGames.com Statistics Page. :) Feb-03-14    LIFE Master AJ: <AK> Thank you VERY much, that was exactly what I meant! :) Feb-03-14    Annie K.: <AJ> You're welcome. :) Feb-03-14    john barleycorn: If you go to the search page and take "karpov" and "at least 1975" as criteria you will find the exact same game karpov vs. ulf andersson, milan 1975, b44, as number 11 and as number 46. How come? Feb-03-14    chessgames.com: That's a known bug, related to the way the database caches search result pages combined. It's also related to the way that games within a single year are not presented in any particular order for non-tournament pages. (Which is why saying things like "game #44" doesn't really mean anything: if you come back tomorrow that could be a different game.) It's a hard bug to reproduce. If you go back and try it again you are likely to not witness the same behavior. We're working on a way to improve the ordering of game results, and when that happens that problem should become even harder to reproduce, hopefully impossible. Feb-03-14    Domdaniel: <CG> -- <saying things like "game #44" doesn't really mean anything: if you come back tomorrow that could be a different game> Excuse my ignorance of this area -- but is this the same as the phenomenon whereby results from a recent tournament can be widely distributed across a player's games? Feb-03-14    chessgames.com: <Dom> Yes, it's very much related. Most game results sort on purely the year field where it really ought to be a combination of the exact date and the tournament ID. Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 681 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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