Thanks much for your thoughtful reply. So it's a much bigger problem at root than can be fixed by making a better "bot-crawl-code" for our website.

I know (actually I barely understand) <Daniel> has been thinking of a way to improve the way <SECRET OPENING NAMES AND CODES> are automatically distributed on to new game uploads.

But if as you say, nobody can agree in the first place...

On another topic I saw by accident, <Mr. Keene> is either thick about "people" or he's got a lot of nerve, or both.

For years I saw you post several times to <Ray> in various places around town. Your posts and questions were always respectful, interesting, knowledge-based, and engaging.

I never once saw him reply to any of your posts. That doesn't mean he never did, I just never saw it if he did.

And now that his <proven- not alleged> plagiarism came up recently, you were one of the first to defend him- and defend him on accurate grounds, with an accurate point that was not naive, not toadying, and not mean spirited.

Rational and nuanced, I'd label your posts on this topic, even the ones I disagreed with.

It's also obvious that you regard <Ray> with some warmth and good feeling.

So do I and I've never met him IRL or even here at cg.com. I don't know him at all except from his books and especially on TV. I like his books. You know who else does? <Yuri Averbakh>. I like <Yuri's> books even more than <Ray's>. I was just yesterday reading a fine <Averbakh> book in which he lists <Ray> as the sole reason the ill-starred <Kasparov- Korchnoi>/<Smyslov-Ribli> candidates matches were ever played. <Ray> really did save the day there. <Averbakh> knows <Ray> of course. I think he was extra well-meant towards <Ray> because he was so frustrated with the stubborness of his own Soviet Chess Section, not to mention with the fairly odd FIDE president <Camp David O'Mannis>.

Anyways sorry to stray off topic.

So for <Ray> to put *you* on ignore?

I used to enjoy the outrage of parents who thought their shrieking sprog was a universal passport.

Sorry, couldn't resist. Um, yeah, loud two-year-olds, ewww. Horrible creatures.

<Aged two, I was too busy reading science fiction...>

At first glance, I thought this was an Indian name -- but he's Finnish, lives in Scotland, and writes in English. His first book, The Quantum Thief, was superb. I'm now reading his 2nd, The Fractal Prince.

Well played <Myles>, well played. And appreciated. It tickles me no end when mates reply back referring to the same meme.

<Annie> Is "Queening" related to " Close-order Swanning About"?

Here is an audiovisual aid:

I know, that's what I meant. :)

Yes, get rid of beard plz. ;p

Are you sure that guy is not even secretly a little bit Indian, just now and then, or something? :s

Remember, a few years ago, when there was talk of adopting the opening classification system developed by Eric Schiller ...?