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ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 829 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing> Jun-12-15    zanzibar: <Annie> Oops, I forgot about that field. Boy was I confused. My bad. Apologies to all... Jun-12-15    Annie K.: No worries! :) Jun-13-15    chessgames.com: Does anybody happen to know where to get the PGN for So vs Navara? Jun-13-15    WannaBe: Here's the link: https://arena.chessdom.com/tourname... Not sure where to get the PGN without doing it by hand... Jun-13-15    Annie K.: This may be the best available: http://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp... Jun-13-15    WannaBe: <Annie K.> Oh, yeah, much better, it's got a link to the PGN. =)) Jun-13-15    chessgames.com: Thanks, Annie. How does that site work? I suppose some fan uploaded that on their own, transcribing the moves by hand from ChessArena? It would explain the horrible PGN quality. (No Event tag, Site tag empty, Round "?"...) Let's hope they got the moves right. For now it's the best we've got. Jun-13-15    Annie K.: No idea - I got there from the link above the board at http://wesleyso.com/chess-links/. So it has *some* recommendation. :) Jun-13-15    zanzibar: All this PGN talk, have I stumbled into the Bistro by mistake?! Jun-13-15    GreenLantern: Typo on homepage <So - Navara Match Prague, Czech Republic Jun 13-16 Between 13 and 16 July in Prague,> It should be 13 and 16 <June>. Jun-13-15    chessgames.com: Thanks GL. Jun-14-15    offramp: Here is something that I thought could be interesting, if not here at cg.com that at some other site. How about a stat on the player page of current active players of "Last 100 games" and possibly "Best 100 games"? For example, Loek van Wely could have this stat: "Overall record: +739 -495 =846 (55.9%) Last 100 games: +59 -26 =15 (66.5%) Based on games in the database; may be incomplete." That isn't hard to figure out, but I think the "Best 100 games" idea would need an algorithm. The idea would be to present a player's current form compared to his overall form. Jun-14-15    fgh: <chessgames.com>, could you please clean up the page So - Navara Match (2015)? It is being derailed by an irrelevant discussion about bans, copyrights, and the Wesley So page. Thank you. Jun-14-15    Annie K.: <cg> here's today's So-Navara PGN from the same source - I fixed the headers to match yours from yesterday. [Event "So - Navara Match"] [Site "Prague"] [Date "2015.06.14"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "2"] [Result "1-0"] [White "Wesley So"] [Black "David Navara"] [ECO "A16"] [WhiteElo "2778"] [BlackElo "2751"] 1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bg2 Nb6 7. O-O Be7 8. d3 O-O 9. a3 Be6 10. Be3 Nd5 11. Nxd5 Bxd5 12. Rc1 Bd6 13. Qa4 Qe8 14. Rfe1 Ne7 15. Qxe8 Rfxe8 16. Bc5 Nc6 17. b4 a6 18. Nd2 Bxg2 19. Kxg2 Re7 20. Ne4 Rd7 21. g4 Nd8 22. Bxd6 cxd6 23. Nc3 d5 24. Na4 Rb8 25. e3 f6 26. f4 g6 27. Rc2 Ne6 28. f5 gxf5 29. gxf5 Ng7 30. Rf1 d4 31. e4 Nh5 32. Nb6 Rg7+ 33. Kf3 Nf4 34. Rfc1 Rf8 35. Rc8 Rf7 36. Rg1+ Kh8 37. Rc2 Rd8 38. Nd5 Nxd5 39. exd5 Rfd7 40. Rgc1 Rxd5 41. Rc8 Kg7 42. Rxd8 Rxd8 43. Rc7+ Kh6 44. Rxb7 Rc8 45. h4 Rc1 46. Ke4 Re1+ 47. Kd5 e4 48. Re7 Ra1 49. Rxe4 Rxa3 50. Rxd4 Kh5 51. Ke6 a5 52. bxa5 Rxa5 53. Kxf6 h6 54. Rd7 Ra4 55. Ke7 Rd4 56. f6 1-0 Jun-14-15    chessgames.com: <fgh> Talking about Wesley So during a Wesley So match isn't the worst thing that could happen. If there are some particular posts that you think cross the line feel free to use the Whistle. <offramp> Not a bad idea. Jun-14-15    chessgames.com: Annie, we must have been working on that at the exact same moment. Thanks though! Jun-14-15    Annie K.: Heh, oh well. What's the EventDate tag supposed to be doing, anyway? :) Jun-14-15    WannaBe: User: TerranceDoesPhillip I am suppose to use the Blow the Whistle function, but too many pages to do that on an iPad, plus I can't copy/paste offending message as easily... Jun-14-15    zanzibar: <Annie K.> <9.2.1: Tag: EventDate This uses a date value, similar to the Date tag field, that gives the starting date of the Event.> http://www.saremba.de/chessgml/stan... It's the last part of how a tournament is defined in PGN-speak, together with Event and Site tags. (A game's Date may be unknown to the exact day, while the EventDate tag isn't, for example) Jun-14-15    Annie K.: <zanz> thanks. So it just needs one value, the event starting date, not the ending date as well. Would that be the official tournament opening date (usually one day before Round 1, at least in many contemporary tourneys that I've noted), or the Round 1 date? And why wasn't it filled in in the current example (the So-Navara match)? :) Also, do I ask too many questions? How about now? ;p Jun-14-15    zanzibar: If anybody should ask if they ask too many questions... that'll be me. Actually I wish the PGN standard allowed the EventDate to be a "bracket" date, i.e. a start-finish combo. Maybe <gauer> and I will be discussing this very point when we draft the new PGN standard! As for the exact details on the starting date - it's not clear what the consensus is. I like using the Opening Day date, which often appears on the tournament books and ad works for the tournament. I like to know when the players are on-site, which the earlier date generally tells. On the other hand, often the R1 date is used. And sometimes that's the only published info. It's usually only one day difference whichever you use. When I double check the EventDate from the game dates, I don't flag it as an error if the EventDate is just a few days before the R1 game Date. However, if the EventDate is after the R1 data, it suggests some review and correction is needed. Well, you did ask the questions! Jun-14-15    zanzibar: Oh, <Why wasn't it filled in?> The EventDate is the oft neglected orphan child of the PGN tags. Most all software compensate with the game Date when the EventDate is missing. And because of this the EventDate is often overlooked, and misunderstood. (Actually, the PGN standard should have introduced an EventSite tag to parallel the EventDate tag. Then the Site tag would apply to a particular game's actual location. ) Jun-14-15    Annie K.: <EventSite> Ooh, that would be nice. Everybody knows stuff like Morelia-Linares, but for example, the two days of playing in Rotterdam and The Hague in this year's Tata Steel will probably be forgotten much more easily. Thanks for the explanations, appreciated. :) Jun-16-15    chessgames.com: <I am suppose to use the Blow the Whistle function, but too many pages to do that on an iPad, plus I can't copy/paste offending message as easily...> We've got our eye on this creep. He must have made a dozen accounts in the last 48 hours. I'm not even putting him on probation, I'm deleting his accounts and all the posts that go them. Thanks for watching out for us, WannaBe. Jun-16-15    Alien Math: renamed Kenneth Rogoff page from political arguments page to personal attacks page Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 1118) search thread:    ARCHIVED POSTS < Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 829 OF 1118 ·  Later Kibitzing>

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