ARCHIVED POSTS
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 851 OF 1118 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
Sep-12-15
 | | chessgames.com: <SwitchingQuylthulg> I find myself wanting a shortcut like that myself. The only thing I don't like about it is that there will be problems when we have 1,000,000 players in the database. (I doubt we'll ever have 1 million legitimate player records, but our methods burn through the numbers very quickly due to our rule to never recycle them.) It could be years before we have that problem, but once it happens, I don't see a neat solution. Probably the best way would be to use URLs like /p/12345 In any case, thanks for the notion. |
|
Sep-12-15
 | | SwitchingQuylthulg: <chessgames.com: It could be years before we have that problem, but once it happens, I don't see a neat solution.> It could easily be decades before that happens; and when/if it happens, <then> you can introduce URLs like /p/1000000. Doing so won't break any of the old URLs (without the "/p", or with the "/p" optional) since 5-digit and 6-digit player IDs will continue to not overlap with game IDs. |
|
| Sep-12-15 | | zanzibar: I'm having a Renoir moment.
Brown and purple, purple and brown...
Or am I wrong?
<This is brown>
<This is purple, <this is brown>, and now purple> Who the hay cares?
Well, I'd like the two colors to be a bit more contrasting, to aid in the visual differentiation. Maybe brown and blue? Oh, and the first color should remain the same... constant. Imo, of course. |
|
| Sep-12-15 | | whiteshark: <ceegee> On Ruy Lopez, Open, Howell Attack (C81) you should add <9.Qe2> to the headline so that it's consistent to the underlying diagram and the starting position of the <Howell Attack>. |
|
Sep-12-15
| | chessgames.com: <when/if it happens, <then> you can introduce URLs like /p/1000000. Doing so won't break any of the old URLs (without the "/p", or with the "/p" optional) since 5-digit and 6-digit player IDs will continue to not overlap with game IDs.> Oh, I never thought of that. Right you are, SQ. Well done. |
|
| Sep-12-15 | | zanzibar: <CG> just wondering about the backlog of photos I've submitted. Maybe time for a status call? |
|
Sep-12-15
| | chessgames.com: Oh that's right, I do have quite a few photos from you that need to go up. Some of them looked great. I'll email you when they are online to make sure none fell through the cracks. |
|
Sep-12-15
| | chessgames.com: Server will go down for maintenance in about 10-15 minutes. We should be offline for 10-15 minutes. Wish us luck; we're going to fix this thing yet. |
|
Sep-12-15
 | | Annie K.: Ouch. :s
Howzitgoin? |
|
Sep-13-15
 | | Phony Benoni: I don't like to bring up something trivial at a time like this, but is today's pun supposed to be <Grace> Under Pressure? |
|
| Sep-13-15 | | truefriends: In the teamgame I am playing for team black. Is there a way to hide my forum for all the players of team white? So I can post some analysis there and discuss things with other members of my team that are just to specific or boring for the team forum... |
|
Sep-13-15
| | chessgames.com: <Phony> No problem, just a stupid typo, has been fixed. I'll delete your post on the page if you don't mind. <truefriends> Sorry, we don't have that functionality. It was decided that discussing the game outside of the sanctioned forum would be a bit hazardous. In GM vs the World games there is only one single person to trust, so it's a sound sacrifice. It's no big deal for one person to take that care required to make the system work. Plus, most of these GMs didn't hang out on the site, they came in to make their move then left. They aren't likely to stumble upon page they aren't supposed to see because they don't even begin to look. But if we allowed the function you describe, you'd have to trust the entire lot of Chessgames users to not press 'logout' and peek. I could live with that, as they're trustworthy lot, but there's more. We must trust them not to be technologically clumsy and peek at a page while they are inadvertently logged out. That's a bit too much to ask for. Anyhow thanks for the request, I went into depth just because I wanted you to know the reason why things are the way they are. |
|
Sep-13-15
| | chessgames.com: Good news:
From what I understand the defective hardware has been replaced, and they network should remain working without downtime. What I predicted would be 10-15 minutes of downtime turned into 1-2 hours because of some IP4 vs IP6 software issue, or something like that. Once that was squared away we are running on the new equipment and don't foresee these problems again. |
|
Sep-13-15
| | Phony Benoni: <chessgames> No problem with deleting the message. I was going to do it myself, but waited to long. |
|
| Sep-13-15 | | whiteshark: <ceegee> All of today's [Date "2015.09.13"] World Cup (2015) games are either rapid or blitz i.e.
subrounds 3-4 = 25mins rapid
subrounds 5-6 = 10mins rapid
subrounds 7-8 = 5mins blitz
subround 9 = armageddon w/ 4vs3mins(?) |
|
Sep-13-15
| | chessgames.com: <<ceegee> All of today's [Date "2015.09.13"] World Cup (2015) games are either rapid or blitz> And Armageddon is a possibility as well, no? We've been through this last year. The only effective way to handle the situation to use software that scans the tournament reassigns game types based on the second part of the round number. Fortunately this software was written a year ago. I'll have to dig it up and then confirm that the format this year is absolutely identical to the format last year. Unfortunately, during the progress of the tournament Sargon will likely get 100 correction slips about game types, which he has been instructed to delete. I don't see any easy way to assign the game types correctly as the PGN comes in. The best solution is to accept the PGN then later run the software that reassigns the game types where needed. |
|
Sep-13-15
| | chessgames.com: Sadly I must retract that "good news" I posted yesterday; there are still problems and we'll be back at the data center later today to try to get some stupid piece of hardware configured properly. Again. |
|
| Sep-13-15 | | FairyPromotion: <chessgames.com: Unfortunately, during the progress of the tournament Sargon will likely get 100 correction slips about game types, which he has been instructed to delete. I don't see any easy way to assign the game types correctly as the PGN comes in. The best solution is to accept the PGN then later run the software that reassigns the game types where needed.> I'm obviously not aware of the technical difficulties, but wouldn't it be better to assign the games of day three (of each round) as rapid rather than classical. As it is currently, 73 games played today are listed as classical, while non of them actually are. Had they been assigned as rapid, 62 of these games would have been correctly assigned, and only 10 blitz and 1 armageddon games would have needed correction. These games can even be listed easily on this page, and (I believe) fixed in a matter of minutes, rather than going through standard correction slip requests. |
|
| Sep-14-15 | | MarkFinan: I've been saying there's something wrong with this site for weeks now. I missed the bookies.... Again. |
|
Sep-14-15
| | chessgames.com: <FairyPromotion> It sounds like you're advocating some sort of intermediate measure, like setting all of the games from Sep-12-15 to "RAPID", until a more permanent solution can be found. I would agree, except this isn't such a big issue that we need to solve the problem piecemeal. We already have software to handle situations like this, and after running it on the World Cup I believe it already corrected all of the games from September 12th. Please keep in mind that during the next rest/tiebreak day the same problem will occur again, but the software will come in later to change the games as appropriate. |
|
Sep-14-15
 | | Richard Taylor: <CG.com>For the record I discovered why the PGNs for the NZ Seniors (earlier this year) were unobtainable. They were for the simple reason that no one wanted to enter in all those games. So there are no PGNs as such. Of course I have my own games and there are a few of some of the players (some were IMs and one or 2 FMs) which might be findable. I talked with one of the arbiters and he says that PGNs are an 'optional extra', further commenting that although the tech is available for every board to be wired so to speak, the reasons against this are political...but that is an 'advance' that will no doubt take place in the future... The simple fact is that someone, very keen and dedicated, otherwise has to physically enter the games (perhaps not all of them: because some of them, including quite a lot of mine, are rubbish). Well they do here in NZ, not sure how it is done in big International tournaments. |
|
| Sep-14-15 | | MarkFinan: I got the email and I appreciate it. I wish you would have sent it a week or so back though. I honestly thought it must have been my connection, right up until yesterday when I saw other people complaining (mentioning) about the same problem. Anyway thank you. |
|
| Sep-15-15 | | FairyPromotion: <chessgames> That's great. When you said <I don't see any easy way to assign the game types correctly as the PGN comes in.> in your previous post I thought that you were actually considering it a relatively bigger issue, and just offered a practical solution. But if it's all fixed by the next day, it's obviously a minor one. |
|
Sep-15-15
 | | offramp: I happened to look at this page, User: LIFE Master AJ where the top line reads:
<LIFE Master AJ
Member since Aug-21-03 ยท Last seen Sep-14-15>. Where was he? |
|
| Sep-16-15 | | Abdel Irada: I notice that <TheFocus> has a new Confederate flag avatar. This makes me a bit curious, because not long ago, <MissScarlett> wanted to use the same avatar, and you told him the symbol was not acceptable. When did that change, and why?
∞ |
|
 |
|
ARCHIVED POSTS
< Earlier Kibitzing · PAGE 851 OF 1118 ·
Later Kibitzing> |
Kibitzing
