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Jul-18-14
 | | WCC Editing Project:
I second <Tab's> suggestion to change the link on the tournament nomination page, given the "mini landslide" vote. |
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Jul-18-14
 | | chessgames.com: <Tabanus> That's great, thanks for your work. |
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| Jul-18-14 | | Shams: <cg> A billet-doux to you from the hinterlands: http://www.chess.com/blog/FLchesspl... |
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Jul-18-14
| | WCC Editing Project:
Good morning.
I was wondering if you had any further thoughts on something you have previously spoken favorably of, which is to expand the ability of <cg.com biographers> to edit data on games pages? You choose your biographers carefully, and I think they are a rigorous and trustworthy crew. I was just looking again at the mistaken player name in Tal vs E Mukhin, 1972, for which I have sent in a correction slip. But why can't I just change the event, site, and player fields myself? This would free up a lot of the <cg.com Liberrian's> time, and a lot of your time. Finally, I'd like to note that we can already change the round and date fields, including the year. There is no sense in which that information is less, or more important than the information in the event, site, and player fields. I regard all of these fields to be epistemological equivalents. That is, if your'e going to trust someone to get the year of a game correct, then you should trust that person to get the name of the players correct. Conversely, if you don't trust someone to get the name of the players correct, you shouldn't trust that person to get the year of a game correct. Anyways I hope that you do expand our editing scope. |
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Jul-18-14
 | | Tabanus: <CG> No problem ;)
If I should nit-pic, perhaps remove "Ind India" from the lower list, as IND in the upper list should suffice. |
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Jul-18-14
| | WCC Editing Project:
Follow up question-
When the Tal vs E Mukhin, 1972 correction is processed, then the mistaken leaderboard for this event- Sukhumi (1972) will automatically correct itself right? We won't have to use the new leaderboard correction function? To be more precise, <Evgeny> will automatically disappear from the leaderboard, and <Mikhail's> 14 game total will automatically become the correct 15 game total? |
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Jul-18-14
| | chessgames.com: <But why can't I just change the event, site, and player fields myself?> Possibly one day you'll be able to, but those are three very different kinds of fields that need to be separately considered. <To be more precise, <Evgeny> will automatically disappear from the leaderboard, and <Mikhail's> 14 game total will automatically become the correct 15 game total?> Absolutely, that's how it works. If it ever appears to not be working that way it's just a cache issue that will resolve itself shortly. |
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Jul-18-14
| | WCC Editing Project:
Aha- I see.
Thank you for your patience with me. I appreciate it, believe me. |
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Jul-19-14
 | | Chessical: A polite request. I have complied Game Collection: Hastings (1980/81), and can submit it for voting but for three small outstanding actions. Can :
Andersson-Sunye - R7
Liberzon-Brito - R7
be added to the database (they have been submitted); and the correction slip be processed for the R13 game A Lein vs Ulf Andersson, 1981 which is actually Lein - Liberzon - see Chess, vol.45. nos 849-50, p.388. Thank you. |
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Jul-19-14
| | Tabanus: <CG> The nomination page links correctly to FIDE Country Codes but still says "alpha-3 country code". At least the nomination page I tried. |
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Jul-19-14
| | chessgames.com: <Tab> Is that wrong? I regarded "alpha-3 country code" as a generic term for any three-letter code. Does it mean something specific? |
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Jul-19-14
| | Tabanus: <CG> Hmmm, I guess not. See e. g. on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o... where some FIFA codes differ from the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_31... codes. I seem to remember <zanzibar> once wrote about the issue. But as you say an "alpha-3 country code" is not an "ISO_3166-1 alpha-3 country code". The term "alpha" was perhaps/probably coined by ISO though. |
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Jul-19-14
| | chessgames.com: <alpha-3> might have been coined by ISO but I'm sure the term "alpha" to mean a string containing only letters A-Z has been around in computer science for much longer; it's the little brother of the "alphanumeric". Anyhow, we'd change it if it caused confusion, but I don't think it should. |
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Jul-19-14
| | chessgames.com: <Chessical> We just did the correction slip, but your two games were actually rejected because instead of the normal 1/2-1/2 the games both said ½-½. That might look pretty but it doesn't meet PGN specifications. I'm glad you pointed this out or they might have fallen through the cracks. They are uploaded now. |
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| Jul-19-14 | | hms123: <cg>
Head's up on the live game page:
<Penguincw> <Is it me or whenever I click on Adams' picture, it leads me to a person named just "Adams" (and not "<Michael> Adams")?> I get the same thing. |
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| Jul-19-14 | | Blunderdome: Yes, you can see in the header that it says "Fabiano Caruana vs. Adams" instead of vs. Michael Adams. Looks like the pids for Adams and Michael Adams got confused. |
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Jul-19-14
 | | Fusilli: <CG> Thank you for uploading my games from the World Open! |
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Jul-19-14
 | | Penguincw: Hi <chessgames>. This morning, while using chessgames, a couple times this morning, the website was down. It didn't last long, nor was it as bad as earlier this week, www.isitdownrightnow.com did report this site being down for a little bit. Any idea why it keeps recurring? |
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Jul-19-14
| | Penguincw: Nevermind, I saw this post: Caruana vs Adams, 2014. :) |
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Jul-19-14
| | chessgames.com: <Penguincw> In the course of the last 30 minutes a technical screw-up put the website down for a few minutes. For a while it was spouting error messages. This was a temporary problem and is now fixed. As to the status of the prior network problem, we advanced the point of convincing our ISP that the problem was with them and not us (perhaps a dozen other complaining customers helped convince them). Then they reported they fixed the problem, but it came back in under a day. I can only speculate, but perhaps they blocked an IP which proved to be a temporary solution. Now I haven't noticed any problems in several days so I am hopeful they have it under control. |
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Jul-20-14
| | Tabanus: <CG> It's fine as it is now. It even says "Please use these codes", i. e. FIDE codes. The issue now is perhaps how often URS should, will, and have been used. Probably some will (understandably IMO) insist on e. g. LAT in the Soviet period. |
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| Jul-20-14 | | WANSHOE123: can anyone help my security settings are stopping me from opening games . can anyone help please.
many thanks....... |
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Jul-20-14
| | chessgames.com: <WANSHOE> Please see our Java Help Page especially the part starting at "HOW TO "WHITELIST" CHESSGAMES.COM FOR JAVA OPERATION ON YOUR SYSTEM". Note that if you use pgn4web, this issue will not occur. Because you select "ChessTutor" (a Java viewer) you have to whitelist chessgames.com to avoid the security block. Also let me say that if you are going to go through the trouble of getting Java working, you should consider Chess Viewer Deluxe rather than ChessTutor; it's regarded hands-down as the best PGN viewer available. |
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| Jul-20-14 | | zanzibar: Minor Nit:
Doing an <Advanced Search> on these two names: <golochchapov> <nguyen> returns an error message (as it should), which is a tad confusing: <Player search: NGUYEN
Sorry, no games at this time.>
The problem isn't with the name <nguyen>, but with <golochcapov [sic]>, which should be <goloshcapov>. The error message should flag the missing player if possible. Omitting the 2nd player's name and only using the misspelled name returns a more informative error message: <Sorry, we have no names that exactly match 'GOLOCHCHAPOV' in our database.
Sorry, no games at this time.>
PS- The alpha-3 mentioned above is just a generic indication that the country codes have 3 letters. As <Tab> noted, I explained it before as my copying ISO usage, where they have both 2 and 3 letter country codes, and so need to use the alpha-3 terminology. |
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| Jul-20-14 | | zanzibar: This one's a little more serious -
doing an <Adv Search> on <Yu> + <Yudin> yields no hits, same for <Yudin> + <Yu>. What's the deal?
Y Yu vs S Yudin, 2014
Oh, the final position has White in checkmate, with <[Result 1-0]>. Now, using the advanced <Adv Search> with <CG> pid's does find the blitz game. In fact, it finds two of 'em: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... (Not sure how much more of this I'll be doing, my current process involves SCID twin detection - which means going through ~1000 games by hand. This is a process in need of some advanced scripting.) |
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