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| Feb-17-15 | | Abdel Irada: Good *skill*, <rookpawn101>. ∞ |
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Feb-17-15
 | | moronovich: Good skill and luck <rookpawn 101> ! |
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Feb-17-15
 | | chessgames.com: <rookpawn101> Glad to hear that! <Annie K.> No, there's no conflict, do what you need to do. |
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Feb-17-15
 | | WannaBe: You Go! <rookpawn101>!! |
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Feb-17-15
 | | MissScarlett: Why does the move 11.Nbd2 show up as 11.Ne2 here?
Games Like K Helling vs Lasker, 1925 |
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| Feb-17-15 | | kellmano: <rookpawn101> Good luck. Let us know how you get on. |
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| Feb-17-15 | | zanzibar: By the way <DomD>, for some reason I have the impression that you may be the resident polyglot here on <CG>. If that be the case, then you have a talent that would most certainly be appreciated on the Biographer Bistro. One tournament that might be interesting, if I may suggest, is <DSB-07 German Chess Kongress (Congress), Dresden (1892)>. It has a wonderfully colorful selection of characters... <Tarrasch, Makovetz, Porges, Walbrodt, Von Bardeleben, Winawer, Marco, Mason, Von Gottschall, Blackburne, Albin, Schottlaender, Von Scheve, Noa, Mieses, Paulsen, Loman, and evan Alapin> so there's bound to be plenty of good chess.
There is a lot of good documentation from the contemporaneous periodical <Deutsche Schachzeitung>: http://books.google.com/books?id=gS...
edited by H. Von Gottschal himself (and Von Bardeleben also, just a year before). (see <Calli>'s wonderful DS collection: Game Collection: Deutsche Schachzeitung) A good opportunity for a German speaker (which, I sadly, am not), or something who is good with google translate (which, sadly, I am). This particular tournament also has the advantage of having few missing games on <CG>, a benefit over some of the other tournaments I've worked on. I took the liberty to have a quick look at your game collections, and I see that putting together a tournament collection would be a new experience for you. Perhaps you done so in the past, and deleted the collection, but if not - I'm sure you would find the experience both educational and rewarding. Plus it would of course be a valuable contribution. One which, I'm sure, would be welcomed not just by me but by all the other biographers - given how pressed and "understaffed" we are. <But fortunately I have the key to escape realityAnd you may see me tonight with an illegal smile
It don't cost very much, but it lasts a long while
Won't you please tell the man I didn't kill anyone
No I'm just tryin' to have me some fun>
Besides, you don't want to let <FSR> have all the fun, now do you? (You might even be able to add PGN to your spectrum of languages.) |
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Feb-17-15
| | WannaBe: I believe <whiteshark> is quite, if not, very well versed in the German language, I know there are many others, but his name came to my mind first... |
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| Feb-18-15 | | Shams: <rookpawn101> Let us know how the tourney goes! I started in college too, by the way. Lots of us did. It doesn't mean you can't make C player by your fifties. :) |
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Feb-18-15
 | | Tabanus: <WannaBe> <whiteshark> is well qualified but too lazy. And so I suspect <Domdaniel> is ;) They're both spending too much time with you in the bar. |
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Feb-18-15
 | | Stonehenge: PGN Upload Utility
<You may include comments to chessgames.com here:> Does this actually work? So if a have a suggestion for a POTD can I write it down there? For example, I have just uploaded this game:
[Event "DD-LSG"]
[Site "The Hague NED"]
[Date "1905.11.28"]
[Round "?"]
[Result "1-0"]
[White "Esser, Johannes"]
[Black "te Kolste, Jan Willem"]
1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. a3 cxd4 7. exd4 a6 8. b4 dxc4 9. Bxc4 b5 10. Bb3 Bb7 11. O-O Rc8 12. Bb2 Bd6 13. d5 exd5 14. Nxd5 Nxd5 15. Qxd5 O-O 16. Rad1 Bb8 17. Qh5 Qc7 18. Ng5 h6 19. Rd7 Qf4 20. Bxf7+ Rxf7 21. Nxf7 Ba8 22. g3 1-0 19. Rd7 is a nice move because white wants to play Qg6. I guess it can be used for a POTD. |
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| Feb-18-15 | | rookpawn101: Thank you for your wishes fellow kibitzers. The tournament went very well for me. I scored 5/5 and shared the first place with one other guy. After the tournament i played a rapid game as black against a member of our college chess team. He played the Danish gambit and I was able to draw a knight endgame against him with ease( honestly I screwed up, I should have won). Then I played another game as white against a stronger member of the chess team( he was rated around 1900). He played the French Winawar and I was up a pawn 21 moves into the game, that's when he left to attend his classes. It was a hugely enjoyable experience, made a lot of friends. The guys even asked me join them tomorrow for a couple of games. A great end to a memorable day. |
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Feb-18-15
| | WannaBe: <rookpawn101> Most excellent, this was a (USCF) sanction event? Or just thrown together by fellow school-mates? |
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| Feb-18-15 | | rookpawn101: <WannaBe> It was organized by the chess society to popularise chess in our college. Nothing to do with USCF, but I did win a 1000 bucks. That is roughly $20. Did throw a small party for my friends :) |
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| Feb-18-15 | | zanzibar: Thanks <wannabe> for the pointer. If I ever get really stuck on some German phraseology I might shoot <whiteshark> an SOS. He'll blame you for fingering him! (Just kidding). <rookpawn101> - congrats on going 5/5. With that kind of start, you're bound to be a goner for life (no way to get rid of the chess bug now). |
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Feb-18-15
 | | Domdaniel: <Zanzibar> Tabanus may well be right about me being too lazy, though I prefer to think of it as inertia. And I'm no polyglot, though I'm quite incompetent in several languages. If you want to find a true polyglot, start with the people whose first language is not English - I won't mention any names - but whose English is better than many native speakers. |
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Feb-18-15
| | Domdaniel: <Tabanus> Well, yes. Lazy - or, as I said, prone to inertia: it's a fair cop, guv.
But I should point out that I no longer spend time in bars. I've discovered ways of doing nothing without having to go anywhere to (not) do it. And I can urinate away whole years without chemical assistance. |
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Feb-18-15
| | chessgames.com: <Stonehenge: PGN Upload Utility
<You may include comments to chessgames.com here:> Does this actually work?> It pretty much works, but a word of warning: if you upload a huge number of games, the probability of an admin taking notice of a note buried in the middle is rather slim. <rookpawn101> Hearty congratulations! |
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| Feb-18-15 | | Benzol: <It pretty much works, but a word of warning: if you upload a huge number of games, the probability of an admin taking notice of a note buried in the middle is rather slim.> Is it worth noting that a player lost the game due to overstepping the time limit. I have done this in the past with game uploads if known but was wondering if it was worth including that information. |
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Feb-18-15
| | chessgames.com: It's sufficient to leave a single comment on the last move of the game that reads {time}. The game will not be marked as annotated. |
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Feb-18-15
| | chessgames.com: <Annie K.: And we really need to know how Jasper is doing! :)> Sorry for avoiding this question but it gets a little personal. I broke up with my girlfriend (that you may know as Snoochies) circa 2008. Note that we were never married, in spite of what her profile may have read. In the "custody discussion" we both agreed that she should keep Jasper, I would I keep "Boo", a rescue-cat that I've never mentioned before. Boo was an odd little fellow with one good eye and a crooked stance, and he was a great friend, but sadly he passed away of kidney problems a few years back. However, I did speak with Snoochies about two years ago and she says that Jasper has become huge (no surprise for a Maine Coon) and enjoys chasing small animals that encroach on her back yard. So now you know. |
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Feb-19-15
| | Tabanus: <Domdaniel> / Sharkie: Don't worry, nobody is obliged to do anything. Not even me. It's just that we have so many capable members who are not contributing to the player and tournament bios. Perhaps the explanation is not indolence but something else? The recent write-up by <FSR> is very welcome. |
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Feb-19-15
| | Tabanus: As opposed to his recent contribution on the Helgi Ass Gretarsson page. To <make suggestions to improve the site>, I suggest to hire a frantic admin to delete all such stuff from all player pages. Unless this site is for childish English-speaking kids only, and not for foreigners like me. |
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Feb-19-15
 | | Annie K.: <Daniel> strange taste, that Snoochies! But at least she takes good care of Jasper. ;s I'm sorry to hear about Boo... It's hard to lose our furry little friends. :( |
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| Feb-19-15 | | zanzibar: <tab> there's not much hope at stopping such antics... at least in the posts. But after all the recent discussion of PITA, censorship etc. I did have an idea about dealing with such permissive posting guidelines. It's based on an old discussion I believe <Annie K> and myself had, about the time of the, *ahem*, great departure. Due to the passage of time, the particular details are a bit foggy, and I even forget the main point of the older discussion. What I do remember is this - that despite all the inane commenting some posts do contain valuable information. The idea is how to organize it, and access it, and how to filter it. Skipping my usual introductory verbiage let me present the idea of filter-groups. It's a variant of like/dislike - but with smaller, clique-like groups being the voting block. Anyone can create a clique. They can accept/reject applicants as they like. Once admitted into a clique, a member could then vote on a post for the clique. As a <CG> clique member, one can elect to read only those posts with a minimum of clique +votes. It would be a preference setting. You could belong to several cliques, and adopt whichever identity suits your purpose at the time. Or not adopt any, if you want the pure unfiltered <CG> experience. The original idea was for biographers. We would belong to a group, and could cull posts for useful biographical data - say for a player or tournament. That way, all the chaff on the Fischer forum could be turned off, and you could select the one post with actual content, versus 10000 judgmental or argumentative rants, etc. Or the billions of fans on So's page, all simply proclaiming him the best chessplayer now and forever, could also be filtered out. Get enough +votes, and get promoted to a footnote in the bio. The idea, in rough shape, has some merit. But I suspect it would be likely to just atrophy and die in actual practice, if implemented. Still, it's worth mentioning. Besides, maybe I'm wrong, and it would be viable long-term. What's to lose? Given the alternative of hiring <a frantic admin to delete all such stuff from all player pages>... well, at least it wouldn't "throw the baby out with the bath water". (<cliche vs clique> - both of which can be traced back to two separate French verbs, both of which mean "to click" - one for typesetting (see also stereotype), the other for a door latch: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php...
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php...)
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