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| Aug-05-15 | | FairyPromotion: <ughaibu: Thanks. If it becomes premmie only, I'm going to have problems with my Game Collection: Sorry, there are no games similar to this one in> Would this one be eligible: Ponomariov vs I Sokolov, 2007? A game where the bishop captures both knights on the exact same square, and in both cases returns to safety without getting re-captured. |
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Aug-05-15
 | | Penguincw: Just a reminder that arguably the 2nd biggest tournament of the month is coming up: The Russian Superfinal! Site: http://ruchess.ru/en/
Oh, and I know you're busy, but is the <cg> challenge game coming soon? :) |
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Aug-05-15
 | | chessgames.com: Our new similar game feature needs a little prettying-up, but I think it works fine. Here's a free preview of what it does: <Games like Huebner vs K Rogoff, 1972> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Truly a unique game.
<Games like Ponomariov vs I Sokolov, 2007> http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Interesting variation, but well trodden territory.
Notes:
• If there are 25 or fewer games, it lists them all under the diagram. Otherwise, it provides a link that looks like [6619 games] that takes you to a page where you can peruse them. • If you click on a diagram you'll go to the corresponding page in the Opening Explorer. • And the best new feature of all: it actually works! When it tells you the novelty it's the truth, unlike the old one which would frequently fail. This is displayed at the top and bottom of the page. Sorry ughaibu, there's a chance that this will in fact be a premium feature. |
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Aug-05-15
| | chessgames.com: <Penguincw> Yes, the Russian Superfinal, Aug 8-21, don't worry we'll get a page up soon. About the CG Challenge, it's going to be Team-vs-Team, computers-allowed, game #4. Announcement will come soon. |
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Aug-05-15
 | | Annie K.: <cg> and how about using the move-specific links here too? When you click on a similar game link from a given move, that is. :) |
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| Aug-06-15 | | Chess Is More: Is there a way one can search for chess players by country? I was just looking for a Ukrainian chess player which name I have forgotten. But I'll recognize the name if I see it! Anyway, is there a way to do that? |
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Aug-06-15
| | Penguincw: < Chess Is More: Is there a way one can search for chess players by country? I was just looking for a Ukrainian chess player which name I have forgotten. But I'll recognize the name if I see it! Anyway, is there a way to do that? > (I'll try to give you an answer while you wait for one) No, there isn't. However, see if that player's name is on this page: https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.pht.... (or if it's a female: https://ratings.fide.com/topfed.pht...) (those are for active players only) |
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| Aug-06-15 | | Chess Is More: Thanks, <Penguincw>. I found the player I was looking for through the link you posted (Areshchenko). Thank you very much! |
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Aug-06-15
| | Penguincw: <Chess Is More>
Glad to help. :) |
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Aug-07-15
 | | MissScarlett: <Scratchett.. One look at your racist posts in the cafe and being thanked is the last thing you can expect!> You mean the anti-Muslim ones? Oh no, wait, those were yours! <I think the site's doing okay with or without you Scratchers.> I'm not so immodest as to claim to be indispensable. Just realistic enough to know that I'm the best. |
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| Aug-07-15 | | Benzol: <I'm not so immodest as to claim to be indispensable. Just realistic enough to know that I'm the best.> Your self confidence certainly isn't lacking.
:) |
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| Aug-08-15 | | morfishine: Please delete or remove "pun" or "game title" from the following game: K Junge vs W Loose, 1942 "Hang Loose" is repugnant and offensive in the extreme More comments at his site:
Walter Loose (kibitz #5) ***** |
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Aug-08-15
| | MissScarlett: Pay no attention to that milksop. Where are my submitted games? |
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Aug-08-15
| | MissScarlett: May a game without a year date be submitted? |
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Aug-08-15
| | Annie K.: <Where are my submitted games?> In the queue, generally speaking. :p |
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| Aug-08-15 | | positionalgenius: <Chessgames.com>
hard to believe it's been almost ten years I have been here at CG. Thanks CG staff and the memorable kibitzers. Keep up the good work. |
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Aug-08-15
 | | Domdaniel: <Miss Scarlett> Your spelling is usually adequate, but this time it may have let you down... < Just realistic enough to know that I'm the best.> Do you mean 'the beast'? Or 'the breast'? Or - heaven forfend - the zest, the yeast, the guest, the pest, or the jest? I'd go for jest, if I had to choose. You *are* a funny reddish person, after all. And a radish is not always reddish. Just like a kaddish isn't necessarily kiddish, or even Yiddish. I'm not clear what you mean by 'realistic'. In the manner or style of the real? That hardly applies to an irreal entity like you. Me, I'm in Irreal Estate... want to buy a planet, one careless owner, dodgy plumbing? |
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Aug-08-15
| | chessgames.com: <positionalgenius> Thank you so much! <"Hang Loose" is repugnant and offensive in the extreme> morfishine, our puns are never intended to offend (much) but I honestly don't see what is so upsetting. I half-fear that I'm about to learn that he died in some bizarre strangulation accident, but more likely you are taking the expression "hang" far more literally than was intended. If other people feel as you do I will change it after the fact (not the first time) — but I'd like a second opinion. |
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Aug-08-15
 | | Check It Out: Hang loose is a common islander theme and surfer slang, meaning be well, mutual understanding, take it easy, etc. nothing offensive about it. |
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| Aug-08-15 | | hms123: One can "hang out", "hang ten", "hang a left", and "hang loose". Not a problem. |
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Aug-08-15
| | Domdaniel: Re 'hang loose': it's hard to see any possible offence. Worth noting, though, is the large number of people who seem to confuse 'loose' (unstable, unattached, free, affected by diarrhoea, vague, inattentive, etc.) with 'lose' (to be defeated in a game). Wasn't it Ben Franklin who said "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."... ? The main sense of 'hang loose' seems to be to do nothing or to be relaxed. Only a workaholic could find that offensive. A hanger, of course, may be a clothes horse, a sword, or a male member - these words abound in ambiguity, and ambiguity often offends the literal-minded. |
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Aug-08-15
| | Domdaniel: <hms> - < One can "hang out", "hang ten", "hang a left", and "hang loose". Not a problem.> Ah, but if a chess team consisted of Walter Out, Walter Ten, Walter A. Left and Walter Loose, there might be a problem of sorts. Walter is itself a rich source of puns. Like the line from the Olympics: "Are you a pole vaulter?"
"Nein, I am German, but how do you know my name?" |
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| Aug-08-15 | | morfishine: <CG> Please, don't patronize me. I wasn't born yesterday. I am well acquainted with all the derivatives of "hang" (hang out, hang ten, hang loose, surfers, etc.) The fact of the matter is the pun was referencing hanging nazi's at the end of World War II and was specifically directed at Walter Loose (Hang Loose) who was a suspected Nazi. This is a direct attack on his character Do the right thing and delete it
Best, morf
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Aug-08-15
| | Check It Out: <morfishine> How do you know the pun author's intention with the pun? This seems a good time to give them the benefit of the doubt unless you have some direct evidence they were referencing Nazis and hanging. |
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Aug-08-15
| | chessgames.com: <morphishine> I did not mean to imply that you are unaware of what "hang loose" meant colloquially, I was merely confused at why you'd find it particularly offensive. We often use violent metaphors in our puns ("To Kill a Mecking Bird") which never seem to bother anybody. <The fact of the matter is the pun was referencing hanging nazi's at the end of World War II and was specifically directed at Walter Loose (Hang Loose) who was a suspected Nazi. This is a direct attack on his character> OK, that explains it.
The fact is that Lee (Sargon) suggested the pun for that game, and allowed me to pick among "Loose End", "Loose Cannon", "Hang Loose", "All Hell Breaks Loose"
"Turn Me Loose", "On The Loose", "Screw Loose", "Break Loose" and "Fast And Loose". I was the one who selected "Hang Loose." I had no idea of the Nazi allegations and I'm quite sure Sargon did not either. Nevertheless, it may be inadvertently offensive. In retrospect "Fast and Loose" is a lovely one that would avoid the connotations you outlined. |
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