C Garcia Palermo vs G Vescovi, 1995

Koltanowski vs Keres, 1955

The games that I submitted remain refused.
It's disgusting, the quality of efused games is evident, as we see below:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nu...

I posted "go wesley!"...and wesley is not even listed as a participant. It should not be counted.>

Yes, <Grenke (2015)> and <Tata Steel (2015)> were both fixed by <fixpgn>(*).

But try to create an xtab from the PGN of either of these two examples:

New Zealand Open (2015)

George Trundle Masters (2014)

http://tbilisi2015.fide.com/en/main...

What I think we have here is a nut full of worms.

I'll have to stop you there, I'm afraid.

<tolengoy>/<bulibug>/<lainulo>/etc. understands and uses English quite well — very well indeed if you consider that it is probably his second language.

His problem isn't intelligence or a language barrier. His problem is that he's personality-disordered in the way that trolls are, and like most trolls, he is here to cause a maximum of disruption because that's how he gets his fun. "For the lulz."

The more attention his antics get, the happier he is. In this way, he's like an emotionally disturbed child, acting out for attention and at least as happy with negative attention as positive. (Remember, this kind of personality takes joy in causing others distress.)

As with such a child, the remedy is in principle a simple one: Deny him the reaction he wants. In fact, pretend he isn't there.

But of course he isn't a child. He has the well-honed ability of a malignant narcissist with decades of practice to find resources that cause enough pain to elicit a reaction. This is what he counts on, master psychologist that he is (and all successful trolls are), to help him remain relevant and feel gleeful at putting so many people to so much trouble on his account.

Here is where kibitzing restrictions may put a real crimp in his strategy. There will at least be far *less* opportunity for him to poke and prod; he will have to find a way to be a relentless creep in two posts a day.

One caveat: Don't put it past him. He lives for this.

It's about all the lunacy with the involved discussions of trolling - it's not aimed at any individual in particular.

I was having a little fun modifying the famous Pink Floyd song. I was actually inspired by the Beavis and Butthead and perversion comment by <wannabe>.

I sympathize with your cause, at least if it's about getting some games submitted. I have a whole bunch of Feuer games, a Czech master from the 1920's, that I submitted and haven't been accepted. I had to type all those in by hand too.

There's many vibrant chess scenes, both from the past, and from other parts of the world, that are probably under-represented on <CG>. I consider myself lucky to have gotten a few of my submissions accepted, and really can't expect all of them to be (though of course I hope they are).

I don't understand all the dynamics at play here, and since I don't know all the story, it's hard to have an opinion about a lot of the matters raised in this forum.

<Btw, adding it to the favorites list should give some PITA points.> Oh no, adding somebody a favorites list deducts PITA points.

I just examined George Trundle Masters (2014) in pretty good detail. (I didn't do the other one just because opens are never as well organized.)

<The problem here isn't from a correction slip denormalization. It's more intrinsic.>

You're right. I downloaded SCID on my own machine and made the x-tab myself to see it first hand. After studying the headers of the games it concluded it was looking at three tournaments:

1. "George Trundle Masters", took place in site "?".

2. Also called "George Trundle Masters", took place in site "Devonport, Aukland NZL".

3. Also called "George Trundle Masters", but look place in the site "Devonport, Aukland, NZL" (with a comma)

Of course we didn't type those headers by hand, that's what the official site offered for download. Maybe they published a few rounds with sloppy headers, get a complaint, then the subsequent rounds have their site-fields filled in. Then at some point a comma was added or subtracted.

So I can see what's going on: SCID is being extremely picky about PGN quality. If CG was that picky, we'd end up with three tournaments too.

I'm not saying SCID is bad software, just that it doesn't seem to cope well with the actual sloppy stuff that official sites publish regularly. Which shouldn't be surprising: we often have to manually intervene with official PGN ourselves.

chessgames.com: Of course!>

This PITA thing looks like an exceptionally powerful tool for social self-moderating of a forum.

Congratulations!

I've got the impressions the threshold for kibitzing restrictions is high - please keep it that way.