is it possible to have a top 10 or 20 of the most collected games of a tournament thus far e.g.

Isle of Man Open (2016)

It would be nice to see those games ordered by most collections

For me one of the key games I video annotated was Nakamura vs Bok - and I saw this is already in a couple of collections.

Even in early days, the number of collections could be a good sign of a really cool game one should check out when visiting a tournament page.

When I worked as a journalist writing about events largely funded by sponsors, I noticed a clear difference between different types of event.

Put simply, sports writers and sports events always namechecked the sponsor, but arts events and writers tended not to.

So if, say, Duff Beer put up money for a stickball tournament in Springfield, the media would call it the Duff Stickball Championship. But if they funded a film festival, it would be called the Springfield Film Festival, (with the Duff logo printed on the event program, and what more do they want, huh?).

This is just one of the reasons why more money goes to sports than to arts.

Chess is in the invidious position of being seen as both sporty and arty, but not sufficiently popular. So where sponsors are concerned it gets the worst of both worlds.

<K-crusher> <is it possible to have a top 10 or 20 of the most collected games of a tournament thus far> Technically possible—but there is the issue that our "notability" metric doesn't work very well with new material. Another potential problem is that if too many people use this feature, then it will become a kind of self-fulfilling prophesy: whatever games are popular by round 4 or 5 will be "locked in place" and it will be very hard for a new game to overcome their lead.

That's not to say it's a bad idea or shouldn't be tried; I've considered it myself and would like to have a feature of that nature.

<whiteshark: In W D Taylor vs J Neumann, 2006 something strange happened - Can you solve this mystery?> It seems you already have and thanks for locating that. Normally I would chastise you for not just submitting a correction slip but with the blinking side-effect and all it was worth mention.

I'm trying to make it so that the site returns a status update during the move rather than an ugly "cant' find the server" type error. That way nobody panics and you even have some idea of when to return.

Yeah - I see how it can inflate those in collections to get even more collected. Maybe a more passive idea is for example on the full list of games :

Isle of Man Open (2016)

To have an extra icon for "in collection" (like the icon for commented on) and maybe when you hover it, it tells you the number of collecitons. Or a "notability icon" when the notability of a game passes beyond a certain threshold - maybe factor in how long the game has also been in the database.

I just think maybe some easy ways of finding the more interesting games would be cool.

A hardware upgrade will take place in the next hour. The new server is so fast it will take us through WCC 2016 and beyond.

I was briefly disoriented after the latest round of hardware/software changes before I realized I'd been logged out in the process.

So far, I like the changes. In particular, I'm pleased to see that you've implemented a function I requested long ago but never expected to see: After I write a kibitz, edit it and click "Post," I am now redirected to the forum where I made the post, without having to go through an additional page.

Well done, and thank you.

I'm unable to search collections using words in the collection title. FOr example, searching <Favorite Games> brings up no hits..

The search seems to be indexing the introductions and player names as usual, just not the title of the collection.

This is urgent, I can't submit any puns without checking Phony's Pun Index collections first...! ;)

This is quite worrying, as you say you're using a laptop. As I understand it, a laptop simply has a *screen* -- a monitor is one of those vaguely TV-like things that connects to a desktop computer.

Unless, of course, you have a large lizard with you, and you are taking out your frustration on it. I must point out that the pounding of monitor lizards is cruelty to animals.

That's unfortunate and there isn't much we can do, but I can explain the situation.

Somewhere on your device there is a table that says that chessgames.com = 199.237.62.164, and it's wrong, because now it's 199.237.62.178. That information was published yesterday to the world.

Even if your ISP gets the update quickly, your device won't be updated instantly. You *might* be able to solve the problem by turning your machine off and on.

If that fails to work, then your ISP probably has the stale IP address. In that case you can't really do much than just wait. This isn't the type of problem you're likely to solve by calling your ISP.

AOL, for example, refreshes all records twice a day, meaning in the worst case, some AOL users might had to have waited 12 hours. But there's nothing preventing smaller ISPs from doing it once a day or even once a week.

On windows, open a DOS prompt, (Start Button -> type cmd and then select the program that looks like a black rectangle box) type in ipconfig /flushdns

Stale DNS records: https://www.petri.com/forums/forum/...

DNS scavenging: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...

I just did a ping chessgames.com and the IP that was found is .178 but my browser does not find it by address.