<Don't know it. Do I <even> want to know it?>

I think it goes:

I think that might be the "G rated" one. Maybe we should check out the "PG 17" one before final judgment.

<Gentlemen> I don't think we will make it through eh?

Every time I look at the chessgames.com forum I think of the way <Captain Nemo> shut down the IMDB chat. <Ohio> famously warned <Daniel> about that some months ago.

<Nemo> got sick and tired of trying to wrangle the vicious fights on the IMDB Horror board, with which I was intimately involved, very much to my discredit.

There were no problems with the hundreds of other IMDB chat boards, not even the Politics Board. Just the Horror Board but that was enough.

Hacking, socking, death threats, spillover into other venues such as facebook, youtube and you name it.

Nobody in their right mind would want to administer that chat room. So they stopped.

I don't think chessgames.com will go down forever. I think it will be maintained as a database, but a database with no live chat function.

All of our work will be saved, but the one thing that made this site special- the kibbutz function- will be gone, I fear.

<tuttifrooty> and all of those accounts are a pox on this site. A simple solution would be to charge $5 an account to open it. That wasn't Daniel's style, so be it.

<death threats, spillover into other venues such as facebook, youtube and you name it.>

The death threats here are unacceptable. It's been Daniel's site and I mostly get along well with <Travis> but if I ran the place, he'd have one chance to knock it off and then be gone. I guess there are other people I have issues with, but death threats on a chess site......the King's English fails me.

<I don't think chessgames.com will go down forever. I think it will be maintained as a database, but a database with no live chat function.>

That's my best guess too.

<All of our work will be saved, but the one thing that made this site special- the kibbutz function- will be gone, I fear.>

Yep, yep. I will note that if not for the kibbutz function, the vast majority of people who have done the vast majority of work wouldn't have bothered. There are a couple who really don't kibbutz much except in their work, but I don't think it's worth it if I can't have some fun along the way.

<Anyways, either way I would miss talking with you gentlemen more than any other aspect of cg.com.>

A tautology to state the obvious? Yes. But it is also grounding, calming. At least for me.

I know!

"kibbutz" is past tense of "kibitz."

Are there cat pictures?>

Yes, there are cat pictures.

<The Good Anteater>

Wow people are declining and falling all over the place.

He hasn't posted, of course. That's not bad, I still think it's reasonable that he could be the tech guy doing stuff in the background while a second person is chosen to be the "voice" of CG and handles interfacing with users.

It's just idle curiosity, they don't owe me status updates of course. Still, a lot of people would like to know where things stand. Have they reverse engineered Daniel's password and have access to the site? Do they have a list of tasks that are being addressed one by one?

Wow people are declining and falling all over the place.>

This bears a repost because it clears up one of the most trenchant mysteries in western letters:

<< Boomie: <thegoodanarchist: Anyone ever read <The Pillars of The Earth> by Ken Follet? I liked it.> People still read? Amazing.

Are there cat pictures?>

Yes, there are cat pictures.

Hmm here is an intriguing entry from <Hooper and Whyld> "Oxford Companion" 2nd Edition, p.87:

"Under the delusion that skill at chess is evidence of high intelligence, the public has long been fascinated with..."

If "the public" glanced at our <chessgames.com> forum, I doubt it would take long for it to disabuse itself from this delusion.