<Annie> indeed an accurate post on <Morf>, as usual. As you say, <Morf's> past record indicates that it's worthwhile pointing this out to him. He has a long history of congenial and valuable posts on chess, classical music and other worthy topics.

Sadly, like me and many others in the past, and no doubt future, <Morf> is stuck on an extended "one issue rant."

<Morf> let it go man. The website wants the puns and you're tilting at windmills. I speak from experience on this kind of thing. I'm one of the worst offenders on becoming obsessed with extended Quixotic rants at this website.

If it's expensive to do it, perhaps make a donation page for this purpose? I'd be happy to pay an extra amount.

I tried to click on Jan 1 and Jan 15, and found that the last post in the Bistro was from Sept. 15. Why not until Jan. 1/15? Anyway, it seems the TI events were there, and games could even be played through.

They have bots (aka "spiders") that keep returning to their indexed sites every now and then, and making more backups. It's also possible to request from them a manual backup of any page, though the way to do that changes now and then, so it's best to just go there, request the page you want backed up, and see how it can be done at the moment.

<CG> - <I have a notion to solve all the kvetching once and for all, with a new preference option called "suppress GOTD puns".>

I believe the way they decide (other than by direct requests) what to archive, is just by following links from one page to another, and so on. This is, for the most part, done automatically, not every page gets reviewed by people to decide on its worth.

We pay for having fun, of course! Eternal life is <always> free, according to every single religion and philosophy I know of. Show me one that says you can buy it! ;)

Speaking of libraries, they have been known to burn down... and I can also relate that my mother threw out a lot of her old books a few years ago, because she says she had developed an allergy to old paper. :\ Whereas I've never heard of an allergy to old pixels. :)

If it makes you feel better, though, consider that by paying a membership to <cg>, you are helping support it so that it can host your posts until the WayBack Machine gets around to archiving them. ;)

Anderssen vs J Heral, 1873

It ends in mate, not check.

This is trivial stuff, one might think, but it gets flagged when I try to automatically check the integrity of <CG> games against other sources.

I view this as part of <CG>'s responsibility to get the PGN right - given its role as provider of games to the great unwashed.

So by paying membership fees, the machine gets paid for. Does it also have a physical location - is there even a picture of it?

You might want to go back a little to get the full history.

Start your search with <Internet Canivore>.

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