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| Nov-01-14 | | Boomie: <CG.COM>
Notice that the final round of the Grand Prix starts 3 hours earlier at 2 AM Eastern time. The clock on the Live Broadcast Page is set for 5 AM. |
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Nov-02-14
 | | chessgames.com: Thanks, Boomie. I suspected as much.
I was going by a highly unreliable source (http://tashkent2014.fide.com) which says <The final round will start one hour earlier>. I don't know where you got your information but I'll trust you over FIDE any day. |
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Nov-02-14
| | chessgames.com: Oh, this is that special day of the year when we Americans have to ask the preposterous question: <Which 2:00am? The first one, or the second one?> I am assuming it's the second one. |
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| Nov-02-14 | | Boomie: <chessgames.com: Thanks, Boomie. I suspected as much. I was going by a highly unreliable source (http://tashkent2014.fide.com) which says <The final round will start one hour earlier>. I don't know where you got your information but I'll trust you over FIDE any day.> Thanks for the nice complement but, alas, we are both in trouble. I got my info from the same site, but a few hours ago it said 3 hours earlier. Now it say 1 hour earlier. I guess in a few minutes, we'll know if it's 3 hours or not. |
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| Nov-02-14 | | Boomie: <chessgames.com: Oh, this is that special day of the year when we Americans have to ask the preposterous question: <Which 2:00am? The first one, or the second one?> I am assuming it's the second one.> Now I'm utterly confused. My natural tendency is to spring back in horror and fall forward on my face. So I'll be less than helpful, I'm afraid. |
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Nov-02-14
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: The official site had two different starting times for the final round, one on the "Schedule" page and another on the "Pairings and Results" page and main page, so the confusion is understandable. (As <Boomie> noted, the starting time given on the "Schedule" page has now been fixed.) Thankfully, the later time turned out to be accurate - no danger of Bookie bets closing late :) |
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Nov-03-14
 | | offramp: <offramp: I like the phrase "beat out" which appears very often on the home page.
What does it mean?
Oct-22-14
WannaBe: <offramp> http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com... Oct-22-14
Check It Out: "beat out" means "winning ahead of", and, yes, has a better cool factor.> It is, indeed! VERY cool!
<FIDE Grand Prix Tashkent
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Oct 20-Nov 3
Andreikin beat out Caruana...>
<FIDE Grand Prix Baku
Baku, Azerbaijan
Oct 2-14
Caruana and Gelfand tied with 6.5/11, beating out Nakamura, Karjakin...> <PokerStars IoM Masters
Douglas, Isle of Man
Oct 4-12
Nigel Short wins with 7.5/9, beating out Michael Adams...> <Baku Open
Sep 22-30
Baku, Azerbaijan
...Inarkiev beat out Lupulescu on the tiebreak...> Supercool! |
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Nov-03-14
 | | TheAlchemist: Just wait for "beat up" to appear some day |
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| Nov-03-14 | | notyetagm: <CG.COM>
Can we please have a forum for the <2014 PETROSIAN MEMORIAL>, which starts tomorrow? Thanks. ----
TWIC DOSSIER -> http://www.theweekinchess.com/chess... |
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| Nov-03-14 | | whiteshark: <Petrosian Memorial>
Official tournament page: http://www.tashir-chess.com/en/ |
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Nov-03-14
| | chessgames.com: Petrosian Memorial (2014) |
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| Nov-04-14 | | FairyPromotion: Hi <chessgames.com>. I was wondering if we can upload an analysis of a game to the database. Earlier this year Kasparov played a simul in Oman, and I saw one of the games reported as an "Almost Immortal" by a few sources. I am aware of PGN Upload Utility, but since the game I wanted to add isn't a real one, and also because I wasn't sure whether I should upload both games or not, I decided to ask the staff. Here are the two games, first one being the original, and second the one with the neat finish. ----
[Event "Oman Simul"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.01.03"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Emil Sebastian"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2812"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "37"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Be3 Qb6 5. Qc1 e6 6. c4 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Ne7 8. Ne2 Nd7 9. O-O Nd5 10. Nbc3 Be7 11. Ng3 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Bg6 13. Rf4 Bg5 14. Rg4 Nxe5 15. Rxg5 Nxc4 16. Nce4 Nxb2 17. Rb1 Nd3 18. Qf1 Qc7 19. Rxb7 1-0 ----
[Event "Oman Simul"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.01.03"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Garry Kasparov"]
[Black "Emil Sebastian"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2812"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "43"]
1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Be3 Qb6 5. Qc1 e6 6. c4 dxc4 7. Bxc4 Ne7 8. Ne2 Nd7 9. O-O Nd5 10. Nbc3 Be7 11. Ng3 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Bg6 13. Rf4 Bg5 14. Rg4 Nxe5 15. Rxg5 Nxc4 16. Nce4 Nxb2 17. Rb1 Nd3 18. Qf1 Qa6 19. Nd6+ Kd7 20. Rxb7+ Kxd6 21. Qxf7 Bxf7 22. Ne4# 1-0 |
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| Nov-04-14 | | hms123: <chessgames.com>
FYI <Rinus Award>:
Activate: DanLanglois
Years: 1
New Count: 14 |
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Nov-04-14
| | chessgames.com: <FairyPromotion> We don't have many games in the database which are analysis--it makes more sense to just give the game as actually played and then conduct analysis in the kibitzer's corner. There are a few exceptions to that rule, but for starters let's just get the game itself: Kasparov vs E Sebastian, 2014 |
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| Nov-05-14 | | FairyPromotion: <chessgames.com> Point taken. Thanks for the addition! :-) |
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| Nov-05-14 | | dakgootje: <FairyPromotion><but since the game I wanted to add isn't a real one> Unless the game has been designed, it's not not-real :) Whereas it's not a classical game, there are other classifications, like: rapid, simul, exhibition, and others. -- Say <CG.com>, now the subject has come up in any case. Any news on this Blast from the Past? <Sep-28-11 dakgootje: Hey Ceegee, the game classifications [in classical, rapid et cetera] is nice and all - but wouldn't it be much more useful if we could search for them?e.g. "Anand vs Kramnik Rapid" giving only their rapid games.> - <chessgames.com: <dakgootje> The day is coming soon when you'll be able to search on the game-type, but not yet. Keep in mind that it wasn't long ago when we had requests to trash the feature altogether due to its rampant inaccuracies. Now that things are improving, offering it as a search will be the next step.> Or are we talking 'soon' in the "2000 years is still soon, compared to eternity"-sense? ^^ |
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Nov-05-14
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <dakgootje: <FairyPromotion><but since the game I wanted to add isn't a real one> Unless the game has been designed, it's not not-real :)> This game <has> been partly designed, though (in that it's analysis, not something that was actually played). Speaking of which... <cg>, any chance you could have R Steel vs NN, 1886 marked as "analysis" rather than "classical"? I submitted the correction slip long ago, but nothing's happened. (See http://timkr.home.xs4all.nl/chess2/... for more information about the origins of that game.) |
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| Nov-05-14 | | dakgootje: Ahhhh in that case I misunderstood Fairypromotion. Please do excuse me, I'll just return to giving my coins to mister chessbookie ^^ |
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| Nov-05-14 | | whiteshark: repost fm Mar-22-14 / updated reminder
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whiteshark: <ceegee> Sumthin's rong with Nimzo-Indian, Nimzo-Indian, 4.e3, Main line with 8...dc and 9...cd (E57) The line <1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 e3 O-O 5 Nf3 d5 6 Bd3 c5 7 O-O Nc6 8 a3 dxc4 9> looks incomplete compared to the given diagram. Furthermore there are no notable games.
However the OE shows 190 games Opening Explorer I'd guess you get it and (can) fix it... ;)
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Nov-05-14
| | chessgames.com: I just changed the definition of E57 and the page sprung to life. However I'm not sure if the designation "Bernstein Defense" is applicable to that variation. (That's the name given in one of our datafiles of a related position in E57.) On a related topic: Is anybody here familiar with the New in Chess opening categorization system? When we talk about improving opening categorizations we could mean to keep fighting with ECO or to do something altogether different. With that in mind, I was about to write a post the other day about the inadequacies of the ECO system and how it really needs to quietly die. The notion of making exactly 500 pigeon holes in which all chess games can fit is a throwback from the days before databases, when it was necessary to have five neatly color-coded volumes on your bookshelf. I decided not to post it because the topic gets very involved, but now's as good a time as any to bring it up. From what I gather, NIC faced the problems with ECO years ago and decided the only real solution was to build a new opening categorization system from the ground up—and that's exactly what they did. As far as I know, they are the only ones who currently use their own system, but if it's a good system there's no reason why other organizations shouldn't adopt it. If not the NIC system, what other opening categorization systems are out there? Not to say that we'd strip the ECO codes from all of our pages, however it's clear that something better has to be devised. |
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| Nov-05-14 | | twinlark: Hi <ceegee>
You mentioned earlier that you were interested in adding this year's Czech Extraliga to the database. Finding the games has been a bit of a problem but hopefully the following link will help: http://db.chess.cz/soutez.php?sid=1...
Go to the table at the top of the page and there is a dropdown menu on the lower right of the table labelled "Přílohy". In the menu is an option that reads "Extraliga 1415.PGN". Hope this helps. |
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Nov-05-14
| | chessgames.com: We just were offline for 5-10 minutes (5:25-5:35 EST) but everything is OK now. |
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Nov-05-14
 | | WannaBe: Okay, who was running the microwave and the hair dryer in the office again?? |
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Nov-05-14
 | | WCC Editing Project:
You know you are on cg.com too often when...
The site is offline for 10 minutes out of a year and you actually type "chessgames.com" into the "Is it down right now" website: http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ |
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Nov-05-14
 | | Penguincw: < chessgames.com: We just were offline for 5-10 minutes (5:25-5:35 EST) but everything is OK now. > Oh good. Thought it was only me...
Also, on the home page (the one with the advanced search), is it possible to find games by type (ex. classical, rapid, blitz, etc.)? Another question on a similar topic: when searching for games, is it possible to have something like <1st player does not lose> or <white does not win>? Thanks. :) |
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