Hmmm... what license would you use?

And a request for tactical support - make it have a mode that allows <CT>-type play where moves are hidden to allow user to play through.

Reading the Chess Olympiad (2016) (kibitz #497) is hard because of the volume.

If I make frequent enough posts then I can use my profile to jump to my last post and start reading from there.

But what if I don't want to make a post?

I could still make one to serve as a bookmark - but basically I'd just be posting junk to mark where I've read.

Can I make a non-publishing bookmark post?

Then my profile snippets would show me where to start reading, while avoiding polluting the dialog stream.

(This would allow me to avoid having to jump to the end and work my way backwards, or have to go forward over the same material over and over using an old post in the forum.

As usual, I'm thinking of a simple escape in the forum post... like

<@bookmark - notes>

The post only would show up for the individual user.

However, some sites have a feature where it assumes that if you visit a page, you read everything on it. Then if you return to that page, all of the new posts are highlighted for you—or likewise, a link takes you to the "last thing you presumably read."

Of course, one might suggest the better way to do the recent games would be to allow the user to sort the games via the columns headers.

Default might be from oldest to most recent (or vice a versa) - click the year-heading and the order goes from most recent to oldest. No special code needed (unless you want to allow individual users to have different default settings for sort order).

Click the Event/Locale heading and get the games sorted by tournament.

Click the Openings, and group the games by openings, etc, etc.

I guess it's like Mike said in Breaking Bad, half-measures vs. full measures.

Why aren't the games for a player sorted by date in the first place?

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/ches...

The end of the list of Carlsen's games should all be Olympiad games, at least, that's what I would naively expect.

I am a big fan of the beautiful and talented women's World #2 player Ju Wenjun.

Could you please update her profile pic to this beautiful picture of her from the Baku Olympiad? Thanks.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22...

(Google image search ("Ju Wenjun chess" ) -> Search Tools -> Usage Rights -> Labeled for reuse)

Not all are even real hits. Of the ones that are, I like this best:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipe...

(Generally, I prefer seeing the person's entire face, looking forward)

Of course, if you like variety unencumbered by legalities, the selection is better here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22...

Thanks.

I *really* like that pic of Ju Wenjun that I linked to.

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<Z> — I thought we've been over this topic? Anyhow, briefly:

Of course they *should* be sorted by date, but it's not, and as always there is a story that goes back over 10 years. When the site was new, two things were true:

(1) The vast majority of PGN did not have date information.
(2) MySQL could index tables MUCH faster on a two-byte year field than a 4-byte date field.

These two considerations caused me to resort to a kind of trick. Instead of storing only the date of the game, I would store two fields: one is the full date (if known), and the other is the year. That way I could sort by the year field when doing large searches, like all Berlin Wall games, and use the full date only when listing tournaments.

Since that time, MySQL (and computers in general) have gotten much better, and our date information is now becoming rapidly filled in, mostly through the dedication of our tireless editors.

Therefore, it has now become a good idea to consider an alternate plan. The simplest plan would be to simply stop using the phrase <ORDER BY Game.year> and instead use <ORDER BY Game.date> — but I am also considering creating a new field which is a concatenation of the date and the tournament ID, to be able to group tournaments even when the dates are not known.

Yes, and your <Recent Games> innovation suggested it was a good time to reraise the issue.

<Therefore, it has now become a good idea to consider an alternate plan. The simplest plan would be to simply stop using the phrase <ORDER BY Game.year> and instead use <ORDER BY Game.date> — but I am also considering creating a new field which is a concatenation of the date and the tournament ID, to be able to group tournaments even when the dates are not known.>

I would think this modest change would offer a tremendous practical benefit to all <CG> users.

Agree 100%.