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Jan-01-15
 | | Richard Taylor: It is now a day passed New Year. I think I was the first to say Happy New Year. I was mucking around on my computer (preparing openings?) and later I read a book, then fireworks broke out so I posted...so there's one of those Na Na Naa! I was first, so there! Childish, but a strangely human thing to want to be. No? This is a better place than the Kib's Cafe.
So although it is now the 2nd of Jan it is still the New Year so: Happy New Year!
To <chessgames.com> and everyone here on the site. |
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Jan-01-15
 | | moronovich: Happy New Year to everyone ! |
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Jan-01-15
 | | chessgames.com: Here you go: New Zealand Open (2015) |
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Jan-02-15
| | Richard Taylor: <chessgames.com> Thanks for that. Great. Not sure if all the games will be high quality but some will be of quite some interest. Considering the Australian Champs is on we still have quite a lot of Australian players. Also German, Danish, Chinese and other GMs and IMs etc and many players of quite a range of nationalities... Meanwhile New Years Day was hailed in with an 'organised riot' by thousands of young inebriated revelers at Gisborne (where my mate moved as the houses were cheap and it was quiet!); two (intrepid, or insane?) German climbers are lost on Mt Cook, Aoraki, but most other people are enjoying the beaches or whatever the non-chess players do... |
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Jan-02-15
| | chessgames.com: You gave GM Rasmussen quite a fight, but he seemed to have an answer for everything. |
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Jan-02-15
 | | The Caissars: ♖ NOTICE ♖
It is an annual tradition of Chessgames to begin the new year looking back at the previous. We're celebrating 2015 as we salute 2014, and offer these 14 categories available for awards: 2. Best Username
3. Most Helpful
4. Best Post
5. Funniest Poster
6. Most Constructive
7. Best Profile
8. Best Analysis
9. Best Game Collection
10. Most Informed
11. Best Historian
12. Best/Worst Pun of the Year
13. Player of the Year
14. Game of the Year
For more information, and to cast a nomination, please visit The Caissars chessforum and read the information in my profile. Cheers and happy 2015! |
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Jan-03-15
| | Richard Taylor: <chessgames.com: You gave GM Rasmussen quite a fight, but he seemed to have an answer for everything.> No I made a silly oversight, otherwise he was in serious time trouble. He had to rely on the weaker player making an error: and of course it happens. But I was pleased with that game. Of course he is mostly way out of my league. Today, to compensate I played a terrible game and was duly punished. I forgot to analyse that part of my book or look on CG.com. Also I should have exchanged White's B on d3 and all sorts of things. I exchanged too early on c3 which is not very good either. The lesson to be learned is one I keep falling into, that is, playing developing moves and forgetting to think of alternatives. Or not assessing the position carefully, relying too much trying to recall what was supposed to be played...something like that. In any case, I uncorked a really bad one. My poor friend McClaren and fellow club member succumbed to Sukandar. He is struggling to get out of the 2100 - 2200 range he's been in. His struggle is more "tragic" than mine as he puts a lot more into chess... Weather still humid and quite sunny, roads busy as people come home from drowning at the beaches or getting lost at sea, or on a mountain (incredible as it may seem, NZ has these terrible, very large, adn cold mountains, and maniacs, who don't realise they could have a lovely time going mad safely playing chess, kill themselves by sailing down rivers, fishing or climbing these terrible mountains (inevitably without the proper equipment, such as crampons, boots, morse code machines, chocolate, parachutes, or locator beacons...) |
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| Jan-03-15 | | Gottschalk: <chessgames>
I wonder what the reason of this game that I submitted have been rejected.
[Event "Pinfork"]
[Site "Pinfork"]
[Date "1996.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Gabriel Schwartzman"]
[Black "Grigory Kaidanov"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D10"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "1996.??.??"]
1. c4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Bf4 Nf6 6. e3 a6 7. Bd3 Bg4 8. Nbd2 e6 9. a3 Bd6 10. Bg3 O-O 11. O-O Bxg3 12. hxg3 e5 13. dxe5 Nxe5 14. Be2 Nc6 15. Nb3 Qb6 16. Nfd4 Bxe2 17. Nxe2 Rfe8 18. a4 Rxe3 19. fxe3 Qxe3+ 20. Kh1 Qh6+ 21. Kg1 Qe3+ 22. Kh1 Qh6+ 23. Kg1 Ng4 24. Rf3 Re8 25. Qxd5 Qh2+ 26. Kf1 Qh1+ 27. Ng1 Nh2+ 28. Kf2 Ng4+ 29. Kf1 Nh2+ 30. Kf2 Ne5 31. Rf4 Neg4+ 32. Rxg4 Nxg4+ 33. Kf3 Ne3 34. Qd2 g5 35. g4 h5 36. Qxe3 hxg4+ 37. Kf2 Rxe3 38. Kxe3 Qxg2 39. Nd2 Qg3+ 40. Ke2 Qe5+ 0-1 The sacrifice of an entire rook, in the move 18, is not bright enough to this database? More than that, I also like to know what is the criteria to refuse Games Top Gms or world champions (I had refused Euwe games). But I am truly amazed at the refusal of this brilliant game of Paul Keres [Event "?"]
[Site "USSR"]
[Date "1951.??.??"]
[White "Keres,Paul"]
[Black "Taimanov,Mark"]
[Round "17"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A15"]
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. e3 Be7 5. b3 O-O 6. Bb2 b6 7. d4 Bb7 8. Bd3 dxc4 9. bxc4 c5 10. O-O cxd4 11. exd4 Nc6 12. Qe2 Re8 13. Rfd1 Rc8 14. Rac1 Qd6 15. Bb1 Qf4 16. d5 exd5 17. cxd5 Nb8 18. Rd4 Qd6 19. Rcd1 Bf8 20. Ne4 Nxe4 21. Rxe4 Rxe4 22. Qxe4 Qh6 23. Ng5 Bd6 24. h4 Nd7 25. Qf5 Nf6 26. Bxf6 gxf6 27. Nxf7 Qc1 28. Qxh7+ Kf8 29. Nxd6 Qxd1+ 30. Kh2 Qxd5 31. Nxb7 Qe5+ 32. g3 Rc7 33. Qh8+ Kf7 34. h5 Rxb7 35. Qh7+ Ke6 36. Qxb7 Qxh5+ 37. Kg2 1-0 |
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Jan-03-15
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <Gottschalk: More than that, I also like to know what is the criteria to refuse Games Top Gms or world champions (I had refused Euwe games). But I am truly amazed at the refusal of this brilliant game of Paul Keres> That game's been in the database since it first went public: Keres vs Taimanov, 1951 |
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| Jan-03-15 | | zanzibar: Another little nit - today's <Chess Notes> by Dondis & Chase had the game <Shankland--Bajarani (Al Ain, UAE, 2014)> I made the mistake of looking for <Shankland--Ain> using the <Advanced Search>: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... It returns this message:
<Player search: SHANKLAND
Sorry, no games at this time.>
This is a little confusing, why is SHANKLAND singled out in the return message? It's actually AIN who isn't found.
Shouldn't the return message cite both players? |
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| Jan-03-15 | | zanzibar: To continue a little:
<Advanced Search: Shankland & Bajarani> <Player search: SHANKLAND
Player search: BAJARANI
Sorry, no games at this time.>
This is what I'd expect - no games, and both search terms listed. * * * * *
But if I mis-type the 2nd player's name:
<Advanced Search: Shankland & Barjarani> <Player search: SHANKLAND
Sorry, no games at this time.>
And here the 2nd term is not listed. Ironic, since it is the incorrect term causing the search miss. |
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Jan-03-15
| | chessgames.com: <<Player search: SHANKLAND / Sorry, no games at this time.> This is a little confusing, why is SHANKLAND singled out in the return message?> Yes, that is confusing, but it's not broken per se. When you see something like Player search: SHANKLAND
that means "I've parsed part of your search to mean, find all players that match SHANKLAND. OK, no problem." You don't see "Player search: AIN" because it was not able to form a sensible query clause out of that portion of your search. It doesn't tell you about what went wrong, just what went right. To be more clear, it should probably display something like: PLAYER SEARCH: SHANKLAND (OK!)
PLAYER SEARCH: AIN <ERROR: NO SUCH PLAYER> Duly noted. |
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| Jan-03-15 | | zanzibar: <chessgames> yes, something along those lines would be an improvement. Thanks. |
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Jan-03-15
 | | juan31: chessgames i suggest this year to invite ( maybe every 2 months ) different Masters to reply 5 to 10 questions, selected questions from members of chessgames.
I ignore the difficulty of writing a letter-invitation, is just a suggestion. Thanks |
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| Jan-04-15 | | FairyPromotion: Dear <chessgames.com>, May I ask you to upload two games from the previous year to the database. I'm aware of the PGN Upload Utility, but I want to candidate these games in some Game of the Year competitions on this site, and there are close deadlines to meet. Let me thank you in advance, and also wish you a belated happy 2015! ===============
[Event "Computer chess game"]
[Site "TCEC"]
[Date "2014.?.?"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Crafty (Computer)"]
[Black "Houdini (Computer)"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "162"]
1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Be2 c6 6. O-O O-O 7. a4 a5 8. h3
Na6 9. Bf4 Nb4 10. Qd2 Be6 11. Rac1 Qb6 12. Be3 Qc7 13. Bh6 Rfe8 14. Rfd1
Rad8 15. Qf4 Bc8 16. Qh4 Nh5 17. Be3 Bf6 18. Bg5 Bg7 19. g4 Nf6 20. Bf4 Nd7
21. Bc4 Nf8 22. Bb3 b6 23. Rd2 Ba6 24. Rb1 c5 25. dxc5 bxc5 26. Nb5 Bxb5
27. axb5 c4 28. Ba4 Qb7 29. Be3 Qxe4 30. Ng5 Qa8 31. Qg3 h6 32. Nxf7 Kxf7
33. Qf4+ Kg8 34. Qxc4+ d5 35. Qb3 e6 36. Rbd1 Nd7 37. b6 Rf8 38. f4 Qa6 39.
Bxd7 Rxd7 40. c3 Nc6 41. Rf2 a4 42. Qc2 d4 43. Qxg6 dxe3 44. Rxd7 exf2+ 45.
Kh2 f1=N+ 46. Kh1 Ng3+ 47. Kh2 Qe2+ 48. Kxg3 Qe3+ 49. Kg2 Qf3+ 50. Kxf3
Ne5+ 51. Ke4 Nxg6 52. b7 Nxf4 53. h4 Nd5 54. g5 hxg5 55. hxg5 Rb8 56. Kd3
Be5 57. Ke4 Bxc3 58. bxc3 a3 59. Rd6 Nxc3+ 60. Kd3 Na4 61. Rd4 Nb2+ 62. Kc3
Rxb7 63. Rd8+ Kg7 64. Ra8 Rc7+ 65. Kb3 Nc4 66. Ra6 e5 67. Ka2 e4 68. Re6
Rb7 69. Ka1 e3 70. g6 Rd7 71. Kb1 Rd1+ 72. Ka2 Rd2+ 73. Kb3 a2 74. Ra6 e2
75. Ra7+ Kxg6 76. Kxc4 e1=Q 77. Ra6+ Kf5 78. Ra5+ Kf4 79. Ra4 Qe4+ 80. Kb5
Qxa4+ 81. Kc5 Qb3 0-1
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRD...
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[Event "internet simul"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2014.12.14"]
[EventDate "?"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "0-1"]
[White "Magnus Carlsen"]
[Black "Stepan Osinovsky"]
[ECO "A57"]
[WhiteElo "?"]
[BlackElo "?"]
[PlyCount "82"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c5 3. d5 Ne4 4. Bc1 e6 5. c4 b5 6. cxb5 Qa5+ 7. Nd2 exd5 8. e3 a6 9. bxa6 Nxa6 10. Ngf3 Be7 11. Be2 O-O 12. O-O Bb7 13. Ne5 Qc7 14. Nxe4 Qxe5 15. Ng3 g6 16. Bd2 Bf6 17. Bf3 Bc6 18. Bc3 d4 19. exd4 cxd4 20. Re1 dxc3 21. Rxe5 cxb2 22. Rb1 Bxe5 23. Bxc6 dxc6 24. Ne4 Nb4 25. f4 Rfd8 26. Qb3 Bd4+ 27. Kf1 Rab8 28. Rxb2 Na6 29. Qc4 Rxb2 30. Qxa6 Bg7 31. Ke1 h6 32. a4 Kh7 33. Qxc6 Rdb8 34. Nf6+ Kh8 35. Nd7 R8b3 36. Qa8+ Kh7 37. Qd5 Ra3 38. Qd1 Rxg2 39. Kf1 Rxh2 40. Kg1 Raa2 41. Qd5 Rhd2 0-1 Source: http://www.chess.com/news/swift-mag... |
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Jan-05-15
 | | WannaBe: I wonder how feasible/easy this feature would be:
On google search, you can enter "site: blahblah.com" and the keyword(s) would be limited to that site or sub pages. If I want to search for a post, made by member, err, say "woof-woof" with the key word "Qxd4" on member forum or player's page "YadaYada". Is it possible to enter: "woof-woof Qxd4 Page:YadaYada" or "woof-woof Qxd4 Page:pid=123456799" into search kibitz'n (or have an "advanced search" option)? Or would this be (very) resource intensive? |
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| Jan-06-15 | | MostlyAverageJoe: <WannaBe> While I do not know the CG infrastructure, I imagine that this should be simple to implement -- the search already supports limiting the scope to comments made by a specific user (or made by anyone but a specific user), so limiting the search to a single forum sounds very plausible. |
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| Jan-06-15 | | Gottschalk: <SwitchingQuylthulg>
It's amazing how memory can fail,I even include this game when I organized a base of 125 best games Keres.Thanks. |
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| Jan-06-15 | | Gottschalk: <chessgames>
A picturesque fact before treating his lack of judgement to PGN Upload.
Worse than having rejected games, is to have the Hao123 in proxy from my PC, that nasty plague that hit me in the last few hours, I do not wish even to coarse subjects as Daniel Freeman
But back to our subject.
The game is a chess below symphony with tragic end.
After a powerful attack, White is superior.
Before you find out if white can force the victory or
the defense is still possible, Zukertort makes a decisive mistake. [Event "?"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1886. ??. ??"]
[White "Mackenzie, George"]
[Black "Zukertort, Johannes"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C65"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. The The
The IT 6. d3 Nd4 Nxd4 exd4 7. 8. 9. e5 dxc3 exf6
Qxf6 10. bxc3 Bxc3 11. Rb1 c6 12. Bc4 d5 13. P3
Ke8 14. Be3 Qh4 15. Bd2 Be5 16. g3 Qh3 17. c3
Bg4 18. f3 Bf5 19. BE1 Re6 20. Rb2 Rae8 21. RG2
Bc7 22. Bc2 h5 23. Bd2 BB6 + 24 + 25 KH1 Qxg2 Kxg2
Re2 + 26. KH1 BH3 27. d4 Bxf1 28. Bd3 Bg2 + 29. Kg1
Bxf3 30. Bxe2 Rxe2 31. QC1 RG2 + 32. KF1 Rxh2 33. BE1
Bc7 34. QA3 h1 + 35. KF2 BE4 36. Ke2 Rh2 + 37. KF1
Bd3 + 38. Kg1 Re2 39. Bf2 40. a5 b5 41. QB3 QD1
Bc4 42. a3 Bd6 43. QC1 f6 44. Kg2 Bd3 45. QD1
Be4 + 46. Bf3 KF1 47. QC1 Ra2 48. BE1 Rxa3 49. QE3
Be4 50. Qe2 g6 51. g4 52. Ra1 QF2 Kf7 53. gxh5
g5 54. f5 h6 55. QE3 Ra2 56. h7 Rh2 57. Qxg5
Bd3 + 58. Kg1 Rxh7 59. QD8 Kg7 60. KF2 + Be7 61. QC7
62. Bc4 KF3 Rg6 63. Qxa5 Re6 64. BG3 c5 65. dxc5
Bxc5 66. QC7 + Be7 67. Be5 Bd3 68. KF4 Kg6 69. QB8
Bg5 + 70. kg3 KH5 71. Qh8 + rh6 72. Qe8 + Rg6 73. KF3
Be4 + 74. f4 75. KF2 BD4 f3 76. KE1 Kg4 77. QD7 +
Kg3 78. Bf2 + 79. Kg2 Qg4 + 1-0
It was submitted several times, but no one ever told me why was refused. |
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| Jan-06-15 | | whiteshark: <Gottschalk> Aside of formating issues what's <5. The The
The IT 6. d3 Nd4 Nxd4 exd4 7. 8. > ?? |
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| Jan-06-15 | | zanzibar: <MillBase>'s version of the game: [Event "London"]
[Site "London ENG"]
[Date "1886.??.??"]
[Round "1"]
[White "MacKenzie, George H"]
[Black "Zukertort, Johannes"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C49e"]
[EventDate "1886.??.??"]
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.O-O O-O 6.d3 Nd4 7.Nxd4 exd4
8.e5 dxc3 9.exf6 Qxf6 10.bxc3 Bxc3 11.Rb1 c6 12.Bc4 d5 13.Bb3 Re8 14.
Be3 Qh4 15.Bd2 Be5 16.g3 Qh3 17.c3 Bg4 18.f3 Bf5 19.Be1 Re6 20.Rb2
Rae8 21.Rg2 Bc7 22.Bc2 h5 23.Bd2 Bb6+ 24.Kh1 Qxg2+ 25.Kxg2 Re2+ 26.
Kh1 Bh3 27.d4 Bxf1 28.Bd3 Bg2+ 29.Kg1 Bxf3 30.Bxe2 Rxe2 31.Qc1 Rg2+
32.Kf1 Rxh2 33.Be1 Bc7 34.Qa3 Rh1+ 35.Kf2 Be4 36.Ke2 Rh2+ 37.Kf1 Bd3+
38.Kg1 Re2 39.Bf2 a5 40.Qb3 b5 41.Qd1 Bc4 42.a3 Bd6 43.Qc1 f6 44.Kg2
Bd3 45.Qd1 Be4+ 46.Kf1 Bf3 47.Qc1 Ra2 48.Be1 Rxa3 49.Qe3 Be4 50.Qe2
g6 51.g4 Ra1 52.Qf2 Kf7 53.gxh5 g5 54.h6 f5 55.Qe3 Ra2 56.h7 Rh2 57.
Qxg5 Bd3+ 58.Kg1 Rxh7 59.Qd8 Rg7+ 60.Kf2 Be7 61.Qc7 Bc4 62.Kf3 Rg6
63.Qxa5 Re6 64.Bg3 c5 65.dxc5 Bxc5 66.Qc7+ Be7 67.Be5 Bd3 68.Kf4 Kg6
69.Qb8 Bg5+ 70.Kg3 Kh5 71.Qh8+ Rh6 72.Qe8+ Rg6 73.Kf3 Be4+ 74.Kf2 f4
75.Bd4 f3 76.Ke1 Kg4 77.Qd7+ Kg3 78.Bf2+ Kg2 79.Qg4+ 1-0 |
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Jan-06-15
 | | OhioChessFan: I think you need to intervene in the Caissars. What's going on is totally unacceptable. |
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| Jan-07-15 | | Colonel Mortimer: <OhioChessFan: I think you need to intervene in the Caissars. What's going on is totally unacceptable.> Perhaps you could elaborate?
There are probably many things that are unacceptable to you which reasonably minded sentients would be okay with. |
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| Jan-07-15 | | Gottschalk: <OhioChessFan>
I do not think I have the chance "Caissars" and other things here. I think Daniel has rejected games submitted by me for a personal reason. Hard to know what happens, since To him is silent |
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| Jan-07-15 | | Gottschalk: <whiteshark>
I had not reviewed it. Usually my text reviewer accepts castling, perhaps the malware that was in my PC yesterday has caused the distortion.
In any case, the version that <zanzibar> presents seems OK. |
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