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Mar-08-16
 | | Phony Benoni: GOTD displaying only to participants in the game. |
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Mar-08-16
 | | WannaBe: <CG.com> Chess Viewer Deluxe reporting PGN error, game does not load for today's GOTD, Bayo-not. |
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Mar-08-16
| | Phony Benoni: Problem resolved. Thanks. |
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| Mar-08-16 | | WinKing: Three More Days!!!
♘Candidates♘ !!! Candidates Tournament 2016 !!! ♗Candidates♗ This tournament will run from March 11th thru March 28th 2016. Participants include: Viswanathan Anand, Levon Aronian, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri,
Sergey Karjakin, Hikaru Nakamura, Peter Svidler & Veselin Topalov *****
<<> The 'Candidates Tournament 2016' ! <>> < 3 Prediction Contests: (Win virtual medals - Gold, Silver & Bronze) > User: lostemperor - Predict the order
the players will finish. (3 categories to medal in)
User: Golden Executive -
Predict the result 1-0, 1/2, or 0-1 (3 categories to medal in) This year will be the 10th Anniversary for this contest!
(from 2007 to 2016 - 10 years running)
User: OhioChessFan - Predict
the result 1-0, 1/2, or 0-1 & the number of moves. (4 categories to medal
in)
All three of the organizers <lostemperor>, <Golden Executive> &
<chessmoron> have confirmed they will be running their contests for
this event.
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Also don't forget about <chessgames> ChessBookie game for this event.
He can't wait to take some or all of your chessbucks. ;) ChessBookie Game
Don't miss out on the fun for this Super Event - Three More Days!!! |
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| Mar-08-16 | | Aurora: Hello <chessgames.com> Today the <31st Reykjavik Open> a 10-round Swiss tournament started in the Harpa Concert Hall in the Icelandic capital. The event gathers together around 250 players, including 2700 players <Mamedyarov, Andreikin, Rapport and Sargissian.> Official website: www.reykjavikopen.com |
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| Mar-09-16 | | WinKing: Could we please get a page for that tournament in Reykjavik <chessgames>? I would like to list some of those games in the ChessBookie forum as the rounds progress. |
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Mar-09-16
 | | chessgames.com: We're missing a few scores but here you go: Reykjavik Open (2016). |
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Mar-09-16
 | | AylerKupp: <chessgames.com> I don't know if you have had the time to read and digest Agon Ltd's recent position on restricting the dissemination of Candidates Tournament data (e.g. game moves) and how it might affect your live coverage of selected games. I refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World..., https://www.chess.com/news/candidat..., and http://www.chessdom.com/update-on-a... for more information on the subject as well as my own humble personal opinion in World Championship Candidates (2016) (kibitz #79). Good luck. |
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| Mar-09-16 | | WinKing: <chessgames.com: We're missing a few scores but here you go: Reykjavik Open (2016).> Thanks <chessgames>! |
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Mar-09-16
| | chessgames.com: <AylerKupp> I am familiar with the NBA/Motorola case (as it's been attempted to be tied to chess before, unsuccessfully) and I also tried to understand AGON's position. Of course I have opinions but I've been advised it would be best to keep them to myself. Let me simply reassert that we will be broadcasting the top board of the tournament daily. |
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Mar-10-16
| | AylerKupp: <chessgames.com> That's good news. Thanks. |
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| Mar-11-16 | | Boomie: Ordinarily, I like to stay on topic in a forum, but I had to share a link to the ongoing match between Lee Sedol and the AlphaGo go engine. This is go's equivalent of Kasparov vs. Deep Blue. Lee has been the best player over the last 20 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFr...
The commentary by Michael Redmond is terrific. I wish chess commentators brought that much energy. The little dance they have to do to inform novices as well as seasoned players is a measure of their skill. Redmond is the best I've ever seen. Plus I got squashed by him once in a simul he gave so I am doubly charmed. I know some of you gamesplayers have enjoyed the game of go. This is a terrific presentation of go at the highest level. |
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| Mar-11-16 | | Alien Math: Had some interesting games in the 2016 HDBank Open this year https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-t... along with some pictures of some of the younger players, not all had 2100 elo and some had no elo at the time http://thethao.vnexpress.net/photo/... |
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| Mar-11-16 | | whiteshark: <ceegee> I noticed s.th. strange: After <1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. c4 > there's a single game with <3...d5> mentioned here: Opening Explorer However in the game K Lerner vs M Roiz, 2004 black played the main move <3...d6>. Additional strangeness is reinforced when you use Games Like K Lerner vs M Roiz, 2004 where again <3...d5> is given. Probably a small bug 4u... |
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| Mar-11-16 | | whiteshark: ps.: It seems that there has been a <Correction slip submitted> and (potentially incomplete) carried out. |
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| Mar-11-16 | | ajile: <AylerKupp: <chessgames.com> I don't know if you have had the time to read and digest Agon Ltd's recent position on restricting the dissemination of Candidates Tournament data (e.g. game moves) and how it might affect your live coverage of selected games. I refer you to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World..., https://www.chess.com/news/candidat..., and http://www.chessdom.com/update-on-a... for more information on the subject as well as my own humble personal opinion in World Championship Candidates (2016) (kibitz #79). Good luck.>
Thanks for the links. A rather interesting debate on the monetization of chess. And while I sympathize somewhat with the organizers who pay for everything the whole issue is misguided IMO. I think these people believe they can make some nice returns on their investment in chess. But they probably know very little about the status of chess in the past going forwards into the future. Chess is slowly and inexorably being solved by computers and will eventually die a slow death. So really the issue isn't whether they have the right to restrict access. The issue is you are going to lose your money and your dreams of becoming a chess investment millionaire are a delusional fantasy. |
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| Mar-11-16 | | zanzibar: Of course, a nice historical perspective on copyright is always worth a read: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/... |
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| Mar-11-16 | | zanzibar: <CG>, a small bug perhaps? Doing an <Advanced Search> on <Martinez>: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches... Of course, the usual complaint about finding a specific player with the default sorting applies. But compare the <Martinez> list with this one: Player Directory (M)
Given the canon, I might expect more entries in the former search than the latter, but... Notice anyone missing in the <Advanced Search>? Should I spoil the fun and tell you who? |
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| Mar-11-16 | | zanzibar: <CG> another little point - have you an opinion and/or decision on retaining the <Source> tag in PGN? |
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| Mar-11-16 | | ajile: <zanzibar: Of course, a nice historical perspective on copyright is always worth a read: http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/...
Very interesting thanks. Looks like the authors need to update that page though. <Latest update: 31 January 2015.> |
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| Mar-11-16 | | luftforlife: <zanzibar>: Thanks for the helpful link to Edward Winter's Copyright on Chess Games (1987, as amended through January 31, 2015). I had read it before, but it is worth rereading, as you point out. As one might expect, copyright laws do vary from country to country. With regard to the potential application of copyright doctrine, protection, and enforcement under federal statutory and common law here in the United States to the interdependent joint creation, commemoration, publication, or dissemination of the moves of chess games simpliciter (as opposed to such application to the broadcasting or rebroadcasting, by video, audio, or both, over the Internet or otherwise, of live, delayed, or prerecorded telecasts, broadcasts, films, or videos of chess matches), see, e.g., Iris Kokish, Note, U.S. Copyright Protection for Our World Chess Champions: A Futile Zugzwang, 49 U.S.F. L. Rev. Forum 11, 21-22 & n.95 (2015). Here's a link:
http://lawblog.usfca.edu/lawreview/... This student note is certainly not the alpha and omega on the subject, but it is contemporary, and it does view chess-copyright issues through the lens of United States law. Certainly the author (a Class A player in 2015) found Edward Winter's Copyright on Chess Games (in its 2012 iteration) worthy of consideration, for she quoted and cited it in her Note. See id. at 13 & nn. 10-20. |
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Mar-11-16
| | chessgames.com: <whiteshark: <ceegee> I noticed s.th. strange> That's what happens when somebody submits a preposterous opening that gets corrected later. The glitch in the O.E. can linger for a while, but I just forced a reprocess. <Notice anyone missing in the <Advanced Search>? Should I spoil the fun and tell you who?> Yes, you should. Understand that if you search for a name like Martinez, there might be 900 of them in the database but it will only list a few dozen, based on ratings and/or the CG Star of Megaimportance. Or is it an actual bug? <zanzibar: <CG> another little point - have you an opinion and/or decision on retaining the <Source> tag in PGN?> Mixed feelings. It's certainly a well intentioned idea, but as always, the Devil's in the details. I'll be happy to discuss this with you once the candidates are well underway. |
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| Mar-11-16 | | zanzibar: <chessgames> The Martinez of interest: Dionisio M Martinez (kibitz #4) OK, let me reply to this...
<<Notice anyone missing in the <Advanced Search>? Should I spoil the fun and tell you who?> Yes, you should. Understand that if you search for a name like Martinez, there might be 900 of them in the database but it will only list a few dozen, based on ratings and/or the CG Star of Megaimportance. Or is it an actual bug?> We have a fundamental difference of opinion of how a search should work. If I search for <Martinez>, then I want all <Martinez> to show up. I understand they might not fit on one page, but there should be some kind of ability to page through all the results. Either that or just kind of notice to narrow the search. At a minimum, there should be some indication that the results are incomplete and have been truncated. Truncating the search results without any kind of notification is just confusing (for me at least). And how can I systematically find the Martinez who played in 1891 if I don't know his full name? The need for the complete list seems clear to me. |
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| Mar-11-16 | | zanzibar: As for the Source tag...
Yes, we can easily defer that discussion.
(But for the record, I'm primarily targeting the original source refs - like ACM, DSZ, ACB, CCP, etc., not tracking ChessBase, NIC, 365 or rhp sourced games.) |
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| Mar-12-16 | | morfishine: I think there's an error in the standings of the Reykjavik Open Reykjavik Open (2016) Supposedly, Elisabeth Paehtz Elisabeth Paehtz is leading, but her list of games played Reykjavik Open (2016)/Elisabeth Paehtz has her playing J K Thorgeirsson no less than 5 times and thrashing him 4 out of the 5 games |
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