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Jan-14-15
 | | Domdaniel: <WannaBe> I know what you mean. Back in the early days of Spill Chucker, there was an Irish prime minister named Charles Haughey ... my comp told me his real name was 'Charlatan Haughty'. Then his successor was called John Bruton ... or 'Join Britain' according to the machine. I never got as far as looking for chessplayers. |
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| Jan-14-15 | | crawfb5: <Dom> The Lavagnino-McDonnell game was actually a "pawn and move" odds game (otherwise 8...Qf7 is not legal if the f-pawn is on f7). This should be a corrected score: [Event "pawn and move odds game"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1830.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Francesco Lavagnino"]
[Black "Alexander McDonnell"]
[Result "0-1"]
[SetUp "1"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[FEN " 
click for larger view"] 1.e4 Nc6 2.d4 e5 3.d5 Nce7 4.Bg5 Nf6 5.Bxf6 gxf6 6.Qh5+ Ng6 7.Nf3 Qe7 8.d6 Qf7 9.dxc7 Bc5 10.Nbd2 d6 11.Bb5+ Bd7 12.Qf5 a6 13.Bxd7+ Qxd7 14.Qxf6 Rf8 15.Qg5 Qxc7 16.O-O Kd7 17.Qg4+ Kc6 18.Ng5 Rf6 19.Qe2 Nf4 20.Qc4 b5 21.Qb3 Qg7 22.g3 Qxg5 23.Kh1 Rg8 24.a4 b4 25.Qc4 Kb6 26.c3 Rh6 27.Qf7 Rxh2+ 28.Kxh2 Qh6+ 29.Kg1 Rxg3# 0-1 It was published in a collection of McDonnell games played in London which was compiled by William Greenwood Walker of the Westminster Chess Club. Here is the Google Books link: https://books.google.com/books?id=_... The game is on pp 111-112. Some free Google Books are not viewable outside of the US, so I can provide the incredibly long-winded title if you cannot read it. |
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Jan-14-15
| | Domdaniel: <crawf> Thanks. I'd never heard of Lavagnino, so I suppose an odds game makes sense. |
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| Jan-14-15 | | crawfb5: <"Signor Lavagnino is well known to those who have visited Paris, as one of the most brilliant players frequenting the Café de la Regence. When he first played with Mr. M‘D. he received only the Pawn and move, but the odds were subsequently increased to Pawn and two; of which games Mr. M‘D. won a large majority."> |
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Jan-14-15
| | Domdaniel: <crawf> Aha. I *have* visited Paris, but Sr Lavagnino may have been a bit before my time. Thanks again. Je suis Charlie. |
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| Jan-15-15 | | Gottschalk: <Domdaniel>
I am absolutely sure it was one of George Walker books. These books were available for download until recently, however, now I can not find them.
This book included dozens of matches of varying illustrious players who had never received PGN notation. Unfortunately, Walker did not provide the year in which they were played. |
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| Jan-15-15 | | Gottschalk: <Domdaniel>
As a Brazilian I'm used to seeing insulting titles like the today GOTD
"Spanish Influenza". Daniel Freeman can be peaceful, but knows provoke and irritate. |
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Jan-15-15
 | | keypusher: Hi, cg. I uploaded the last missing game from the Chigorin-Gunsberg match. Once it has been added and I've written the introduction, I can nominate that collection. Thanks! |
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| Jan-15-15 | | j paul fellows: To the beautiful Annie K.
I thank you for your odd. And have reprinted its last verse here to encourage others to go and read it in full. As some one who has to relie on spell checkers I hate them, but would not be without one.<Ode to the Spell Checker>
…....
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
For where I am with my project at the moment, cutting and pasting one game at a time is fine. But if it works I will need to get thousands of games. Can I get them here, can you think of somewhere I might get them easer. Did you ear the joke about the dyslexic devil worshipper.
He prayed each day for hell on earth
he prayed to Santa each witching hour
and got what he wanted for Christmas. |
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Jan-15-15
| | keypusher: <Gottschalk: <Domdaniel>
As a Brazilian I'm used to seeing insulting titles like the today GOTD "Spanish Influenza". Daniel Freeman can be peaceful, but knows provoke and irritate.> Why are you provoked and irritated? Is it called Portugese Influenza in your country? |
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Jan-15-15
| | keypusher: CG -- I am clicking on a game and getting taken to Forbes, or an article about Ellen DeGeneres' anti-aging secret. WTH? Carlsen vs Anand, 2013 |
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Jan-15-15
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: Looks like this problem: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/blo... |
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Jan-15-15
 | | OhioChessFan: Same thing as <keypusher> Do something about this <Switch> |
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Jan-15-15
 | | WannaBe: That is weird, if I understand CG's perl parsing algorithm correctly, it should only turn link containing chessgames.com/perl/ into blue links. Like the one displayed. <keypusher> which page did you see it at, originally? Otherwise you should see http://lemonde-mgz.com blah blah blah... |
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Jan-15-15
| | SwitchingQuylthulg: <OhioChessFan> Did you get that problem clicking on <keypusher>'s link, or on some other link? Everyone will go to the wrong page if they click on <keypusher>'s link, since it's not really a game link at all, just masquerading as one. Unfortunately I can't do anything about this issue; the admins (and/or Google) will have to do it. <WannaBe> The fake link does have http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1737319 buried deep inside it. |
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Jan-15-15
| | WannaBe: <Switch> I see, that link was so long I could not see the rest, and I did not bother to paste it into Notepad. The 'fix', would be to alter the Perl parsing, such that only if the link begins with "http://chessgam..." then display it as game/forum/players page. Looks like the current algorithm will *think* it is a chessgames link when keywords is anywhere (within) link. |
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Jan-15-15
| | OhioChessFan: Clicking on <keypusher> link. I just realized that isn't a game link at all. |
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Jan-15-15
 | | chessgames.com: <keypusher: CG -- I am clicking on a game and getting taken to Forbes, or an article about Ellen DeGeneres' anti-aging secret.> How did you get ahold of that link to begin with? |
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Jan-15-15
 | | Penguincw: Say <cg>, isn't Ivan Saric playing in Tata Steel, not Ibro Saric? While on the same topic, in the EZ search, can "Saric" be changed to Ivan instead of Ibro. Thanks. :) |
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Jan-15-15
| | Domdaniel: It's easy to be confused about Ivan Saric -- I think there are four players named Saric ("Shah-ritch") rated over 2500. But Ivan won last year's B-Group.
As <Penguincw> noted at the time, 12 months ago: <Congratulations to Ivan Saric for winning the Tata Steel (Group B) (2014) with a round to spare. His final score is 10/13 (+7, -0, =6), which is +7. He was the only undefeated player in the tournament. Saric finished 1.5 points ahead of runner-ups Baadur Jobava and Jan Timman (he drew both of them, but could've beaten Jobava).
Saric gained 24 points, bumping his rating to 2661, which is a career high. 24 points is the largest increase for both tournaments. Great performance, and let's see how he'll do next year.> |
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Jan-15-15
| | Domdaniel: I fully accept, btw, that the case of the mysterious pseudo-blue links is more important. A Saric is a Saric, but a DeGeneres is for life (eh?). |
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Jan-15-15
| | WannaBe: Another groan(er), courtesy of <Dom>. =)) |
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Jan-15-15
| | OhioChessFan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=594... |
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| Jan-15-15 | | YouRang: I see that <keypusher>'s link has a "chessgames.com" url buried within its text. Evidently, if someone posts a random URL that has an embedded cg.com URL, the display logic will happily convert that random URL to the cg.com display form associated with the embedded URL (e.g. "Carlsen vs. Anand, 2013"), and yet that display form will link to the random URL -- not the (embedded) cg.com URL. All sorts of fun someone might have with that! ;-) |
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Jan-15-15
| | WannaBe: Test, test...
Carlsen vs Anand, 2013 Heh, cool!! |
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