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May-27-14
 | | WCC Editing Project:
Good evening.
Many thanks for that SUPASICRIT technique to check my pgn submissions SUPERFAST before I send them in! Who knew? |
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May-27-14
 | | chessgames.com: <WannaBe> That's a good start, but it only goes back to 2001. The exciting part comes when looking at the 1970 and 1980 ratings. |
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May-28-14
 | | Stonehenge: http://www.olimpbase.org/ > PLAYERS & TEAMS > Elo lists 1971-2001. |
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May-28-14
| | chessgames.com: Oh wow, look at that: http://www.olimpbase.org/Elo/Elo197... — that's exactly what we need. |
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May-28-14
 | | Domdaniel: Great to see those historic rating lists. Note that in the FIDE rating lists from the 1970s, men's ratings start at 2200, while women are also rated in the 1800-2200 range. |
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| May-28-14 | | Shams: Site a bit laggy today? |
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| May-28-14 | | MarkFinan: Shams.. I was thinking the same. Pages aren't loading as fast as usual. |
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| May-28-14 | | davide2013: Sorry to bother, unfortunately this game is 80 moves, and I cannot put it in my Guess the Move list:
Ljubojevic vs Judit Polgar, 1994
Thanks for inserting it for me! :-) |
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| May-29-14 | | zanzibar: I've discovered the <Player Directory> in my quest for the GUToPs (Grand Unified Theory of Players). Player Directory
A bit of a surprise seeing that the links used literal searches with the "encoded" player names, instead of the pid's. Why is that? I found a problem with it, I think, and it naturally involves the nefarious apostrophe! Consider looking for any O'player, say, Tom O'Donnell (2375): [unknown player]
ttp://www.chessgames.com/player/tom_o%27donnell.-
html
For me this link bombs out. What's wrong?
By the way, where should Alberic O'Kelly de Galway be collated, under the O's or the G's? Doesn't matter too much, since that link is bust also: [unknown player]
ttp://www.chessgames.com/player/alberic_o%27kell-
y_de_galway.html |
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| May-29-14 | | Blunderdome: Alberic O'Kelly de Galway
and
Tom O'Donnell
Both worked for me. Just don't escape the apostrophe. Not sure why the player directory took you there; player directory links worked for me too. Maybe your browser tries to escape it automatically? The links you pasted had extra hyphens as well ... try the below. /player/alberic_o'kelly_de_galway.html
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/player/tom_o'donnell.html |
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May-29-14
| | chessgames.com: <A bit of a surprise seeing that the links used literal searches with the "encoded" player names, instead of the pid's. Why is that?> That's a darn good question. The answer is that it was a very old misconceived SEO notion that if the URL contains the name of the player, it would rank higher in the search engines than if it contained some pid= gibberish. That might have been true in 2004 but I do not believe it to be true today. Therefore the easiest solution is to abandon the htmlized player URLs. They are not needed and probably never were. |
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| May-29-14 | | Blunderdome: Update:
Chrome, Safari handle gracefully.
Firefox shows /player/alberic_o'kelly_de_galway.html in the URL bar but loads a page which is blank except for the message <Unknown player 'alberic o%27kelly de galway'> WHY AM I STILL AWAKE? |
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May-29-14
| | chessgames.com: Even more recent update:
I just stripped the *.html format from the Player Directory so it will use the normal style URLs that we all know and love. Meanwhile a band-aid was applied to the problem with URLs containing %27. |
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May-29-14
| | chessgames.com: Something fun:
Chessgames.com now has an official Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/chessgamescom For now we're going to be using it to tweet daily puzzles, but we'll surely find other uses as time goes on. It also can serve as a contact point if (heavens forbid) the site goes offline temporarily. If you use Twitter please follow us and tell all your friends! |
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| May-29-14 | | davide2013: This game has been used as example by GM Martin in his ABC of the Alekhine, unfortunately I cannot add it to Guess the Move, because the players are obscure:
I Marijanovic vs H Tarakcija, 2004
However, sometimes also the faulty way (in this case of the White player) one of the two player plays, can be more interesting than the perfect moves of some super-GMs. |
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| May-29-14 | | davide2013: I tried twitter, but I cannot see the big difference with Facebook, apart the length of the messages, which if I'm correct is 160 characters, so I thought that maybe was made for those whose attention would wander if they actually had to read an entire page :-) |
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May-29-14
| | chessgames.com: <davide> It's not important that the players are masters, but it's crucial that the player who wins was not grossly losing the game at any stage. About Twitter, it is quite different from Facebook in its methods and purposes. It is ideal for very short updates broadcasts to a network of interested recipients. Our first real tweet is a good example: <White to play 24.? http://bit.ly/TWKPJw Movsesian vs Edouard, 2013. (MEDIUM) See solution at http://chessgames.com/1705088 #chess> So now the high-tech crowd has a convenient way to suddenly have the daily puzzle pop-up on their mobile phones. And we'll think up other uses for it as time goes on. |
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| May-29-14 | | SugarDom: Do you even read posts before deleting them?
Where's my post in the WS page about the importance of Wesley graduating in Webster and praising the coach. Crazy. |
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May-29-14
| | chessgames.com: <SugarDom> It's very possible that we accidentally swept away a few Welsey related posts with the rest of the commotion. If that is the case, we sincerely apologize. |
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| May-29-14 | | SugarDom: OK thanks. |
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| May-29-14 | | frandie: < I stand by every single one of the 18 factual statements I made. > The case was settled..there was no determination of the truth and substantiation of allegations- no decision/verdict was made. Your so called factual statements did not make the grade...they are nothing but hogwash...and because you like it so much, that makes you a pig. I repost my kibitz here after it was accidentally swept away. You should have not been selective in your janitorial duties and should have also deleted the post I made as a reference: < FSR: I stand by every single one of the 18 factual statements I made. Note that Ms. Polgar has still failed to identify a single one of those factual statements that she contends is untrue. I am familiar with those facts as a Life Member of the USCF; as the attorney for Bill Brock, one of the defendants in the Sam Sloan v. Paul Truong et al. lawsuit; and as a reader of public accounts of the litigation in the New York Times and elsewhere.> |
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| May-29-14 | | YouRang: Could we have a page for the Norway 2014 tournament soon? It opens Monday with Round 1 being played Tuesday. Some major players:
Carlsen, Aronian, Kramnik, Topalov, Caruana, Karjakin, Svidler, Grischuk, Agdestein, and Giri. |
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| May-29-14 | | zanzibar: <chessgames> just a quick word of thanks for the recent changes to the <Players Directory>. I'm taking advantage of your good work as I type! |
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May-29-14
 | | WannaBe: <zanzibar> I did not notice any changes, except this: On my enhanced menu, I do not have (with down arrow) 'kibitzing', but when I went to the Player Directory, it magically showed up! Why there would be kibitzing on the directory, I am not sure. Not only that, Preference, Sacrifice, History and Tournament Index also magically appeared. But all those goes away after I leave that page. And the site does seem to lag at times, intermittenly, maybe CPU is processing another batch of submission by <benzol>?? =)) |
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May-29-14
 | | Annie K.: A-ha! The enhanced menu didn't used to exist on that page (being simple html) at all. Now that it's been upgraded to normal site page, it has gained the menu as well - but the default one, not the personally customized one for each of us. Good catch. This also seems like a good opportunity to put in a plug for those little loudspeaker icons in the player directory - another way to tell which players have audio pronunciation on their pages! ;) |
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