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| May-08-14 | | hms123: <cg>. It seems fine now. Thanks. |
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May-09-14
 | | FSR: <ChessGames.com> As <Phony Benoni> pointed out on Robert Durkin's page, Durkin (your POTD) died recently. So his lifespan as given on the first page should end with <2014>. |
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May-09-14
 | | Richard Taylor: <CG.com> I submitted a game I played against one Tony Booth (his name on here is 'Anthony James Booth') a while back. I was White in the classical Caro). I did so (I submitted) as playing him in a recent game reminded me of a nice (small combo) I played vs. him about 2007. I thought it was worthy as the combination was sound and quite instructive leading to a queen to the good or the exchange up.
Perhaps this game was confused with the other game I played recently against him? What has happened re that game?
Kind regards, R.T. |
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May-09-14
| | Richard Taylor: I know this is "pushing my own barrow" a bit, but I have actually also submitted or by helping Paul Morten (Benzol) to find games (e.g. one very sharp game by O. Sarapu etc), but he has looked through many of the magazines I had from the 60s and 80s, I also submitted one by Purdy (but my fault I think it was already up) but I have found other games. One thing - incidentally - I have noticed is that games mentioned in opening books are sometimes not on here and as I only have access to one other data base it is hard to find them. Some of course are not "critical" but I think many are useful for opening theory. I suppose that "phenomena" has been looked into (sometimes the names vary or are wrong as quoted). But re the "...barrow": I certainly don't necessarily just submit games I won or drew as I have lost some interesting games! But mostly I have won and or lost or drawn uninteresting and simply bad games so those will not surface. |
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May-09-14
 | | chessgames.com: <FSR> I'm sorry to hear that, thanks for informing us. <Richard Taylor> We'll get to those soon. |
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May-09-14
 | | Phony Benoni: <Chessgames.co> Don't mourn just yet. Incredibly, there were two Robert Durkins born in Milwaukee in the early 1920s that played chess, and the one mentioned in the obituary is not our man. |
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May-09-14
| | chessgames.com: Oh that's great. Surely one of the oldest chess masters in America. One little comment: I put his date of birth in as 1923.00.00. (A biography editor must have removed it upon further research.) I realize that the exact year is not actually known but Player of the Day records demand a birth year. Namely because (1923-) looks alright, while (-) looks ridiculous. |
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May-09-14
| | chessgames.com: In other news:
I think it was SwitchingQ who has been calling for this for ages: a fix to the interminable Unicode bug that garbles some Wikipedia links. I almost was about to declare success (see Janis Klavins as an example) but doing some testing it seems that although it fixes THAT link, other people embed URLs with different forms of encoding that the software now breaks on. So it might be back to the drawing board, sorry. We are still working on it. |
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May-10-14
| | Richard Taylor: <CG.com> Thank you. |
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May-11-14
 | | Domdaniel: For anyone perverse enough to want to see other databases, here are some examples: http://www.365chess.com/
http://www.chesslab.com/PositionSea...
http://www.newinchess.com/NicBase/D... |
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| May-11-14 | | cro777: After 3 years of play the 27th World Championship in correspondence chess finished with <Aleksandr Dronov of Russia winning the World Title for the second time>. Previously he won the 22nd World Championship.
There are only three players winning twice the highest title: Tõnu Õim, Joop J. van Oosterom and Aleksandr Dronov. Crosstable with the link to the games can be found at http://www.iccf.com/event?id=25887
A forum for kibitzing on the World Champsionships in correspondence chess might be of interest. |
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May-12-14
 | | Check It Out: As would a match between Dronov and The World! |
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May-12-14
| | Check It Out: cg.com: Any chance we can get a forum for Karpov 2014? |
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May-12-14
| | Domdaniel: <CG> Problem on Robert James Fischer page ... a post by <lamont> has broken the margin settings. |
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May-12-14
 | | WannaBe: <Dom> We can fix that by posting a lot, and have it scroll off to the previous page. =)) Flame war, anyone? |
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May-12-14
| | chessgames.com: We should make that the 5th posting guideline.
By the way, we have 27th World Correspondence Championship Final (2011) now, but the PGN was hard to work with and we still need to get a few of the missing games. |
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May-12-14
 | | Annie K.: <We should make that the 5th posting guideline.> What, 'If somebody breaks the page layout, please start a flame war immediately'?! Interesting... ;) |
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| May-12-14 | | Alien Math: <We should make that the 5th posting guideline.> Monday margin breaking followed by flame war cover ups? place could be very excite able |
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| May-12-14 | | Blunderdome: I'd worry that people would intentionally break the page layout as a way of starting flame wars with impunity. |
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May-12-14
 | | WCC Editing Project: <Daniel>
You wrote,
<I almost was about to declare success (see Janis Klavins as an example) > ###################
I am so happy to see that you have merged <J Kljavinsh> and <Y Klyavin> into Janis Klavins OR Janis Kliavin? Following <Switch's> suggestion, I hope that you will complete this merger by making the <Latvian spelled> version the final one- Janis Klavins ################
<Switch> wrote,
<"In this case I would suggest using the Latvian spelling because the "Russian spelling" Kliavin is non-standard anyway."> ##################
Janis Klavins is the Latvian spelling. |
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May-12-14
| | chessgames.com: Oops, I thought I had taken care of that. I have to keep my wits about me with those three-way merges. Thanks. |
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May-12-14
| | chessgames.com: We should try to reach out to Aleksandr Surenovich Dronov. But for now we have a yet-to-be-named Super GM waiting in the wings ;-) |
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May-13-14
| | WCC Editing Project: Daniel!
Thanks to <Switch> and <yourself>, to quote <Phony Benoni>: "Janis Klavins ' legacy is saved!" Thanks so much to all three of you. |
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| May-13-14 | | whiteshark: <But for now we have a yet-to-be-named Super GM waiting in the wings ;-)> Thrilling news! After all, anticipation is half the fun. Forgive my curiosity, but do you have a rough time schedule to leak? ;) |
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May-13-14
| | WannaBe: <whiteshark> I'll ask E. Snowden, and see what he knows. |
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