You've been here a few years now Lord. It's about time you revealed who you are because I <need> to know, the time has come? I can't sleep at night trying to figure out who you are, lol.

CG seems to have a bad case of the Yips in the US Women CC.

Carissa Shiwen Yip has 2 points.

I've tried!

<It was your decision to use what I presume is your real name, you used it for years and years in full knowledge and expectation that it would be archived>

I <never> used my name in "expectation" and definitely not <FULL KNOWLEDGE> it would be "archived!". That's just a lie and you know it, and you own this site. If I contacted twitter, facebook, YouTube, instagram, chess24, etc etc etc and told them what had been going on they'd <never> give me a reply like that! Twitter have been sympathetic, do you want me to send you the emails from them? Do you want me to <prove> that unless I'm in a newspaper, a magazine, for a criminal offence I can have my name removed before the "internet archives" if I don't want it there?

Earth to Daniel/Chessgames dot com.

I'm not trying to start any trouble I just want some peace of mind. And if you'd been through what I've had to endure the last few years <because of> a member of <this site> then you'd understand. Ask me for proof and I'll send you it? Everything's been quiet for a few days and I really appreciate that my stalker has either got bored, or scared, or both. As long as he's not bothering me I really don't care. I just want my real name erased from this site so it doesn't happen again with some other headcase.You asked me to email you, I did and you haven't replied. You have my solicitors number and email so call her too, let's just get this sorted once and for all. I don't think you realize how much this has affected my <real life>. I'm seriously not trying to start any more trouble with Keyser Soze, I could care less what he says on here but will you PLEASE respond to my email or I'll just post your emails about certain members of this site in my forum.

2 different posts from a certain person only roughly 6 months apart (don't quote me on that <exactly> because I never checked the dates but I will if you want?)

<Funny thing , I <<never>> <<ever>> had a twitter account (I can't stand twitter)>.

<Man up talk to me on face skype, <<twitter>> right now, since you "know me". <I'm online..>>>

I wish Keyser Soze all the best in life because he needs it, but I just want to sleep easy knowing I'm not going to be woken because of this person. Yes yes I've been involved in these so called "flame wars" in the past but when I emailed you last September/October about phasing out my username and starting another username you said "I've had no trouble from you for a long time Mark and thanks for the heads up" when I was asking the <same thing> I'm asking you right now. What's changed? Serious question, what has changed? If someone hadn't been kind enough to buy me that premium membership you know I was planning on erasing my real name anyway, recent events have just escualted things.

I don't think I'm being unreasonable or funny with you. Can you please respond.

Although it is "only" a national Championship, the US one is one my favorites.

Somehow the mix of players is always right, lot's of decissive games.

I'd like to know, as I often wondered how a day of a chessgames.com employee looked like.

♘Norway 2016♘ !!! Norway 2016 !!! ♗Norway 2016♗

This tournament will run from April 19th thru April 29th 2016.

Participants include: Magnus Carlsen, Vladimir Kramnik, Anish Giri, Li Chao, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Levon Aronian, Veselin Topalov, Pavel Eljanov, Pendyala Harikrishna & Nils Grandelius

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<<> Norway 2016! <>>

< 3 Prediction Contests: (Win virtual medals - Gold, Silver & Bronze) >

User: lostemperor - Predict the order the players will finish. (3 categories to medal in)

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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. ;)

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<Pyke: While we're at it: How much work is it to set up a Live Game Broadcast?!>

Setting it up is not so hard (but it requires a little training as there are a hundred mistakes that can be made.) The hard part comes when the tournament starts. We have software to extract the moves from some types of sites, but when chess24 does the coverage we have no better technology than paying somebody to watch one computer terminal and type the move on another. Kevin (Kev chessforum) usually takes care of that with me covering for him if he has to leave his station.

<I'd like to know, as I often wondered how a day of a chessgames.com employee looked like. Hope I am not imposing.> Well besides myself (Daniel) there are only a few employees. Maybe that would make for a nice "meet Chessgames" type article.

I'd talk more but I have to set up Norway Chess. We're 90% sure there will be a broadcast game today. I think we're going to keep this one to premium members.

Speaking for the old furniture, there is a distinct sense that recent Live Events were on auto-pilot, with some examples of the wrong game or reversed colors, along with no responses to questions in real time, plus the game was left up for comments hours later.

thank you Daniel for the reply and for setting up the NorwayChess live game.

The idea for the "meet chessgames" article sounds nice.

As for your question: I do not mind if they're free for all. And to be completely honest, keeping them restricted to paying members seems odd to me, because a lot of other sites offer free live coverage, too. Sometimes even with excellent commentary. (see US Championship coverage for example)