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| May-22-14 | | davide2013: Could you add this game to Guess the Move? It is an interesting rook endgame. Yates vs Rubinstein, 1926 |
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| May-23-14 | | optimal play: <chessgames.com> Thank you for uploading the seven 1871 telegraph games I submitted. After four months I admit hope was beginning to fade, but I should never have doubted their eventual appearance ;) |
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May-23-14
 | | GrahamClayton: <Chessgames>,
Do you have any idea when you will upload the backlog of games I have uploaded from the Washington Chess Letter for 1952? |
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May-23-14
 | | chessgames.com: <GrahamClayton> Your upload file has become so enormous (almost 600 games) that every time we process uploads we don't want to delve into yours because we know it will take hours. I am really sorry about that, and I promise we'll get to your backlog soon. |
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May-23-14
| | chessgames.com: <Premium Members> Although still in beta stage, the advanced search got a little more advanced. The new "Event" pulldown is a quick index into the last 100 events. You can use it to go straight to a tournament page, or you can combine it with a search. The new "Endgame" pulldown is more interesting. It groups the multitude of endgames from our Endgame Explorer into just a short list of handy categories, like "Elementary Mates" and "Knight(s) vs Bishop(s)". Again, you can use this by itself to see an exhaustive list or combine it with other searches. See how Karpov handles bishop endings, or see the kind of rook endings that the Benko Gambit tends to lead to. |
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May-23-14
 | | Stonehenge: <CG> Must you really wish nazi pig Hans Michael Frank a happy birthday on the homepage? |
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May-23-14
| | chessgames.com: <Stonehenge> You had me worried for a second, you had me thinking he was player of the day. OK, I do see the problem. Down the page in the "Happy Birthday" section, we wish a happy birthday to a Nazi who was justly hanged almost 70 years ago. But what can we do? Surely you don't advocate maintaining a blacklist of "infamous" players like this guy (and Bloodgood, and Whitaker) and intentionally suppress them from the list? We're just trying to supply historical data. If you can think of a tactful solution I'm all ears. |
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May-23-14
| | Stonehenge: I'm not saying you should delete his games, but IMHO he should be removed from the Happy Birthday To list. |
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May-23-14
 | | WannaBe: Advanced search, nice! Have to give that a try.
Happy Birthday, interesting... |
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| May-23-14 | | zanzibar: Perhaps there should be a "Burn in Hell" birthday list? That way the automated software can, after determining all players of interest whose birthday it is, can screen out the bad apples. Shouldn't be too hard.
This "bad apple" was noted back in 2008:
<May-23-08 <brankat>: Interesting to see that CG.com has this guy in their daily "Happy Birthday" column.I suppose the program does it automatically.> I read a lot about Frank in Shirer's book(s), but never knew he had a chess connection. |
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May-23-14
 | | Annie K.: <cg> always nice to see progress. :) Looking at the Advanced Search just now, for purely aesthetic reasons, I would suggest that in the ECO Code line, it would be better to place the input box first (aligned with the rest of the boxes above it), and put the (ECO help) link *after* the box. And for that matter, standardizing the box sizes to just one or two, and the alignment of the lines to just one or two as well, would probably make the homepage look more impressive to those who don't know the place well enough to be impressed anyway. ;) |
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| May-23-14 | | zanzibar: <chessgames> and how about a checkbox, <Force colors> or some such for two player searches (or even one player search). That way, if you know a particular player had White you could screen out ~50% of the games. Or you might want to see only games where Tal played White, as another example. That could be a useful feature that should be easy to implement too. |
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May-23-14
| | Annie K.: <zanzibar> There is a small input box right after the Player line title, where you can choose White or Black for the first player, before choosing the names for the sides. It may not be the most intuitive, but try it. :) |
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| May-23-14 | | zanzibar: <AnnieK> thanks, I never noticed that.
Or if I did, it got lost in the mix.
Hope I don't forget again. Thx. |
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May-23-14
| | WannaBe: Perhaps, move "Advanced Search" onto a page of its own (most web sites behave this way). Put a link after the EZ search for "Advanced Search" And have the puzzle move up on the home page. |
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May-23-14
 | | Domdaniel: Frank's presence in the 'Happy Birthday' list was noted by <Brankat> in 2008. |
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| May-23-14 | | Shams: How about a ban on wishing a happy birthday to any player no longer living? The west should do as the Koreans do and confine all the birthday silliness to one day out of the year. /the birthday scrooge |
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May-23-14
| | chessgames.com: We could change the feature to read simply "Born on this date" but that sounds rather cold. |
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May-23-14
| | Annie K.: <cg> Nah, let it be. Or... hmm, remember when Stonehenge suggested to add a link to a separate *full* list of players born on any day? chessgames.com chessforum You could combine the two ideas... then you could do a "blacklist" for the most infamous players, so they don't get on the homepage Happy Birthday list, but they'd still be on the Other Players Born On This Day list. |
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| May-23-14 | | crawfb5: <a separate *full* list of players born on any day?> Wouldn't that be the entire player directory (minus the computers)? :-) |
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May-23-14
 | | WCC Editing Project: <Daniel>
Might you please check your spam folder?
A few days ago I sent you an email (of no importance whatsoever) and as a jest, I put "JFQ Spam-bot No reply" in the header of the email. Yesterday I sent you an email on WCC "bidness" with a normal header for the email. It just struck me that my previous header might have been flagged by Yahoo's increasingly annoying ANTI-SPAM codes? So maybe now all email from my ISP might be heading directly for your Spam box. Or it might be yet another recurrence of those periods when your regular antispam police program at cg.com starts rejecting Koreans. That happened on at least three separate occasions in the past, if you recall. At any rate, I'd appreciate it if you let me know if either of the two emails I sent actually got through. |
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May-23-14
| | WCC Editing Project: <Shams>
Where are you getting your "Korean birthday" information from? Korean kids get two birthdays a year, and depending on how much their parents spoil them (they usually do) they get two separate "classes" of notice and celebration and "Koko-dass" candies. Also, did you know that for official records, a Korean kid is listed as "one year old" the second they jump out of their mother? That means we have to subtract one year when a Korean tells us how "old" they are. |
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May-23-14
| | WannaBe: Chinese, if not most Asians kids are '1-year old' when they are born, after spending 9 month in confinement. I have 2 birthdays, Chinese one and Western one, since the date on calendar falls different days. However, I am still 18 in Wabbit years. |
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| May-23-14 | | Shams: <jess> I thought everybody celebrated their birthday on 1/1 and that was that? <Also, did you know that for official records, a Korean kid is listed as "one year old" the second they jump out of their mother?> I did know that. I met a girl once who had turned "two" the week after she was born. |
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May-23-14
| | WCC Editing Project: <Shams> yep they get two (2) birthdays. Don't Ukrainians also get two birthdays? This could be a good excuse to send a friendly message to <Chucky> asking him him about it. What a mensch he is. Did you read the interview where IGM Ivanchuck said he enjoys playing chess in the park with fans or any other passersby? |
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