You might like to adjust the title of Zurich Chess Challenge (Blitz) (2016) to something like the <Zurich Chess Challenge 2016 - Opening Blitz> and use the existing title for the blitz event that is played on the last day.

The Opening Blitz to which the above link connects was played on 12 February, the day before the tournament started, to determine which players had White three times in the five rounds of the round robin first (rapid) section of the event.

The first and rapid ("new classical") section of the tournament is then played from 13-15 February. The second and blitz section of the event will be played on the evening of 15 February.

The results in the latter will be added to the former under the tournament's hybrid scoring system (<2, 1, 0> for the rapid section and <1, 0.5, 0> for the blitz section) to determine the overall standing in the Zurich Challenge - http://www.zurich-chess-challenge.c....

Perhaps they could be relabeled to make a clear distinction between the three, eg:

- Zurich Chess Challenge (Opening Blitz) (2016)

- Zurich Chess Challenge (Rapid) Tournament (2016)

- Zurich Chess Challenge (Blitz) Tournament (2016)

Also, the organizers have an idea about their rapid times (40+10) becoming the new classical, a somewhat arrogant notion IMO that may not be a good one to buy into. I mean in the event titles you choose for this tournament.

The titles on tab headings are shorter than the titles at the top of the tournament pages, presumably because of print space considerations?

First, I'd like to point out what you say at your Pun Submission Page:

<Entries are judged on the quality of the pun>

How can you willy-nilly replace titles without considering whether the proposed replacements are an improvement or not?

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Why not simply re-post the winners of <tpstar>'s private contest, and indeed any other terrific games, with the original titles?

Was there an agreement with <tpstar> about renaming the puns? After all, he put in a lot of work to find new names for them all.

Can others re-title games? Is there to be a submission process for renaming games? You say at the pun submission page:

<You should take great care when selecting the game to use, because you will not be allowed to submit another pun for the same game.>

Are we to take it that we cannot come up with a new title for a game we have already named, only another can? What a can of worms.

There is a voting procedure for rating titles, elucidated at the Pun Voting Booth. How can you justify changing game titles selected per that supposedly democratic process? Perhaps I don't fully understand the process, but the voting details are fairly explicit.

<Since all of these games are by definition very good, we will surely run all of them again one day, and then we have the opportunity to revert back to the previous puns. Or, just perhaps, we'll think of something novel.>

How sad it would be to re-title "The Immortal Game" Anderssen vs Kieseritzky, 1851, "Kasparov's Immortal" Kasparov vs Topalov, 1999, "A Long Walk Off a Short Peer" Short vs Timman, 1991, any of the Caissar Pun winners of past, and multitudes of other terrific titles, especially after you have made it clear that quality is key and second titles are not allowed. Where does this can of worms you've opened lead?

<CIO: I think the very notion of replacing puns is abhorrent>

<CG:let's not go so far as to be disgusted; this isn't to be taken that seriously.>

Koneru Humpy

It's an old saw of mine, so you can expect me to pipe in here and there when such matters arise.

FIDE (and really almost all other databases) use collation format, which is given on her FIDE card as:

<Koneru, Humpy>

http://en.chessbase.com/post/what-s...

which discusses Anand's name at length.

Secondly, delete the title a day or two later

This way, the "winner" gets their "Moment in Glory" while the games are not permanently scarred with torturous, painful, incomprehensible and otherwise nonsensical gibberish

Keep in mind, due to "diversity" our global viewers may not have a clue as to whats going on with the daily deal, which pretty much describes my situation :) lol

<MissScarlett> You should be happy to know all games (not just the new ones) played in Caleta are now designated as "Caleta GIB".

Yes, we will, someday.

I have an opinion about the collation issue which probably is nearly identical to your own, but the implementation is not so clear. As I'm sure you know we have two names for each player, the short-form and the long-form. So we have "Fischer" and "Robert James Fischer". What's needed is to make the long form in the format of "Fischer, Robert James".

Of course some people might not like seeing that at the top of game page (I know I wouldn't) but that's no problem--it's an easy transformation to turn "Z, X Y" into "X Y Z". The problem is the reverse transformation.

How on earth do I write an algorithm that takes the 80,000+ players in our directory and turn them from the current format to the collated format? I know we can scrape FIDE data for a lot of the big players, but we have a LOT of players. What of the others? How do we generically transform a string like "Aldsdfgs H Q Jerqjdd Kjdskd" into a properly collated name?

The situation is that especially in past years, we haven't been very good at knowing intuitively what a first or last name is. Everybody knows that Wang is a family name, but when we see a player like Yan Fang we don't know enough about their names to know which name is the surname. It's very possible that we received the name in Western order. I know many of you would know the answer off the top of your heads, but to us it might as well be my example of "Aldsdfgs Kjdskd". Besides, it's not like we have a staff to study each record individually anyhow.

What would a near-perfect solution be? Well, first collate names like zanzibar suggests, so we have "Koneru, Humpy' and "Hou, Yifan". Then add an special bit to each player which says "Asian-ordered-names". That way we could present "Hou Yifan" at the top of the page, which would be most proper, but also make sure you can find her in the H's in the player directories and not abbreviate her name as "Yifan".

Please consider transitioning to GOTD *title* from now on so people don't expect to be entertained every second.

I'll post a little more later, but the vast majority of the difficult work has already been done by FIDE.

E.g. Yan Fang

Hop over to FIDE http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?...

and it's <Fang, Yan>. Done.

And for those without FIDE id's you, already track nationalities - that makes the work fairly easy, just count words when parsing and > 95% of the non-FIDE cases are done with complete certainty.

Of course, the "de xxxx, la xxxx, von xxxx" cases need some care. As would names like:

Pierre Charles Fournier de Saint Amant

But it's a non-destructive transform - so easy to fix.

You take up none of the points I made, except perhaps to discreetly acknowledge that you had an agreement with <tpstar> to replace game titles. I'm disappointed in your approach to this matter; you could have handled it much better.

<tpstar: Next time I will run a daily countdown in my chessforum so voters can enjoy the results before these complainers ruin it for everybody.>

Your bluster and derogatory words mean something else to others.

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Look, yes I'm annoyed that my game title got replaced, particularly by a weaker alternative. It is a source of pride to score the title of the GOTD, ask anyone. So, to have a title I was actually proud of changed mere months later stung.

What stings even more though, is your dismissal of my point of view. We've disagreed on some things before, but I've always done my best to stay civil during those moments.

In general though, I've been a big supporter of this site: donating memberships for holidays, talking your site up, and simply being a positive contributor.

Heck, you pay more attention to posters who have been long-term thorns in you paw. I have a legitimate observation and you write it, and me, off with half a dozen words.