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Nov-03-20
 | | jessicafischerqueen:
<Jim> User: canyonero is correct about the World Champion in "The Queen's Gambit" looking like <Paul Keres>. When you get to the episode when he the World Champion first appears, take a good look at his face. It looked very familiar to me, so much so that I thought it was a famous actor whose face I had forgotten. He is the spitting image of Paul Keres! I hadn't realized this until the post by User: lotsapoppa. |
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Nov-03-20
 | | saffuna: I was just warning about spoilers. I've seen the first game with him now, and I see the resemblance. |
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Nov-03-20
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Jim> Trying to parse your mysterious post. I don't want to ruin the show for anyone who hasn't seen it yet either, but are you suggesting that <chancho> is the actor portraying the World Champion? Intriguing. I'm going to go out and limb and say you are right about that. |
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| Nov-03-20 | | technical draw: Hey! I'm watching. "The Queens Gambit". No spoilers please! |
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Nov-03-20
 | | WannaBe: < technical draw: Hey! I'm watching. "The Queens Gambit". No spoilers please!> The red-head is my next future ex-wife... Leave her alone. |
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Nov-03-20
| | saffuna: <I don't want to ruin the show for anyone who hasn't seen it yet either, but are you suggesting that <chancho> is the actor portraying the World Champion?> No, I just meant the actor does look like Keres. I and someone else have commented on "Quuen's Gambit" on the Queen's Gambit page. |
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Nov-03-20
| | saffuna: I have asked casually before, but now I am more serious. If one user puts another on ignore, the rule should be that he ignores that poster entirely. It should be obvious. I am tired of reading posts about what I allegedly wrote, or just making stuff up, from people who choose not to read what I post firsthand. |
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Nov-04-20
 | | kingscrusher: Hi Guys
It feels a bit "naughty" for me to clone someones pawn structure collection and not kind of "give back". What if when cloning a collection, there should be a kind of "Inherited from.." credit - to show the person who originally created the collection. Also I feel that if I add more Adams backward pawn exploitation examples, the original person may want to see any "candidate" games for adding of anyone that cloned their original collection. So maybe it could be highlighted to them in some some of summary report - "Kingscrusher added x and y" to the clone which you may want to add to your collection etc. Just some thoughts for maybe a future project
Cheers, K |
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Nov-04-20
 | | Olga Viewer: What if we uploaded the games and collections data to Github.com? They support big open data projects and would be paying the cost of serving the data. We could do a backup mirror so if GitHub is down CG.com would still function. As an added bonus, CG would have permission-based maintenance of the games and collections, history of changes, worldwide server support. And then the game submission page could post a request to the data repository through a GitHub action - allowing us to automate and improve error checking... Seems like an interesting idea. What is github?
<https://www.howtogeek.com/180167/ht...> What is a Github action?
<https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro...> Examples of other big data projects on Github -
<https://github.com/collections/open...>
<https://github.com/awesomedata/awes...> |
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| Nov-05-20 | | technical draw: I just finished seeing Queen's Gambit. It was good. They got most of the chess right except they only mentioned ratings once (1800) and titles once (grandmaster). Because of the time constraint the games had to be played fast (or appear fast to the viewer). I have some other comments but I don't want to be a spoiler. |
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Nov-06-20
| | saffuna: There are some comments on the series at the Queen's Gambit Declined (D37) page. |
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| Nov-06-20 | | Sokrates: The ads at the bottom have become increasingly intrusive. Now they also appear during the login process. Quite annoying. |
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Nov-06-20
 | | MissScarlett: Stay logged in. Problem solved.
Meanwhile....<Player of the Day
Pavel Maletin> Who?????????? Nobody knew who he was yesterday. Nobody cares who he is today. Nobody will know who he is tomorrow. End this... |
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Nov-06-20
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<MissScarlett> I know right? They should have picked someone with more impressive achievements, such as Pavel Maletin for example. |
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Nov-06-20
| | jessicafischerqueen:
<Sokrates> If you already haven't, if you tick the <preferences> box "Do not display 3rd party ads" you may have some joy there. If not, the free <adblocker> and <adblocker plus> work with just about every browser. I literally haven't seen an ad since <MissScarlett> graduated from the <St. Whinian School for Fractious Middle Form Boys in Trouble>. |
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Nov-06-20
| | Olga Viewer: I think an ideal balance can be found for how many ads a user sees vs what they contribute. ** If users knew how many ads they saw in <support> of CG.com it might make users feel better about seeing the ads. Also if ads are not obtrusive, but scheduled (planned, like youtube); it could then be fairly asked that users disable ad-blockers for the Chessgames domain. |
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| Nov-06-20 | | technical draw: <jfq> <They should have picked someone with more impressive achievements, such as Pavel Maletin for example.> Uy, the sarcasm with this one is thick.
Also Maletin is Spanish for briefcase. |
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Nov-07-20
 | | Phony Benoni: Today's puzzle cannot be from move 26, since the game lasts only 24 moves. (Wast that also the cause of the initial position dislaying as the puzzle?) I think this may actually be <16. ?>but can't be sure. |
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| Nov-07-20 | | Sokrates: Thanks, <jfc> I already did the "3rd party" thing a while ago on your recommendation. It blocks effectively AFTER I have logged in, but unlike, say a month ago, the ads now also appear on the login pages. It's certainly not a big problem, just a bit annoying. Thanks for the tip on adblockers. |
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Nov-07-20
| | kingscrusher: Hi Guys
I noticed something weird about this game for the PGN view of it: McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 It seems in the main notation there is Rg8 not Kg8 - okay it has a nice rook symbol which may be part of the issue here. But if you do a PGN view of it you get Kg8 instead of Rg8 i.e. check out:
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/nph... and when you load this into your own software unfortunately also from a chess perspective it makes the final position losing for black because White has Qc4+ picking up e2 I am not entirely sure why the PGN export changes Rg8 to Kg8 - but maybe this affects other PGN exports too. Also btw, I had to make the following technical fixes: PGNMoves = replace(PGNMoves,"OO","O-O")
PGNMoves = replace(PGNMoves,"OOO","O-O-O")
PGNMoves = replace(PGNMoves," +","+")
For an import into Chessworld PGN
It is a great example game of connected passed pawns of course - a classic. I thought I should bring this technical issue into attention. Cheers, K |
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Nov-07-20
 | | Chessical: Today's puzzle simply shows the board as initially set up with no moves played. Does anyone check up on what is being published? |
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Nov-07-20
| | MissScarlett: Today's <Random East European Player of the Day> is Maksim Chigaev. Admit it, you'd never heard of him. Tomorrow, you will have forgotten him. I'm wondering if this feature serves any useful purpose. What do the metrics say? |
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Nov-07-20
 | | Susan Freeman: <chessical> I saw the open. I played it. And I won! I hope your problem was just a glitch. |
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| Nov-07-20 | | technical draw: <chessical> < Today's puzzle simply shows the board as initially set up with no moves played.> That's the puzzle. The answer is 1.e4 Best by test. |
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Nov-08-20
| | jessicafischerqueen:
Another malformed pgn bug report from <kingscrusher> here. McDonnell vs La Bourdonnais, 1834 (kibitz #142) <Susan Freeman> I advise asking your staff about recent coding bugs that seem to be affecting game pages and their attendant pgns. Some members are reporting erroneous game scores having to do malfunctioning "figurine notation" on the Olga move list, and I am aware of a bug that is deleting some of the information in the pgn fields. These are far from minor problems eh? With this kind of error, the integrity of the entire database could be in peril. In my opinion this needs to be taken seriously, and fixed, as soon as possible. |
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