Hope all ok with you..

As always...

http://db.chessmetrics.com ...

<Jul-07-11

<jessicafischerqueen: <AJ> thanks for the cheery prediction- last time Mr. Sonas did a big update, how long was chessmetrics down? <It's getting on five days this time.

<It's inconceivable he wouldn't reopen it right? <He seems to have a great business going and he is famous for his chessmetrics system.>>>>>>

I answered:
<Jess> Sadly - ANYTHING is possible on the Internet.

The EXCITE group was a multi-million dollar business when they started, however, they disappeared almost overnight.

I am praying that Jeff will re-open his site. (I sent him an e-mail, I am hoping he will reply.)

<< Thanks for the tip AJ! I didn’t know the website was down. Actually I have a friend who hosts it for me for very little money and it hasn’t been down for years (until now) to my knowledge. Just a hiccup. You can assure your contacts that it will be back up once I work through whatever the problem is. It is obviously pretty self-running although increasingly out of date, I am afraid! For many years I have been on-and-off trying to figure out how to make it easy to update new games into it, and I think I am nearing a solution, though it may still be a year or two away from execution. Feel free to pass this information on, if you would like.

This is fabulous news!

Outstanding, thanks so much for taking the time to alert <Jeff Sonas>-

It's a Christmas Miracle!!!

I still have to complete some work from there for a project.

I am also currently working on a new game collection: Bobby's 1964 Simultaneous Exhibition Tour.

Then <CG> will have every Fischer game known.

I can't thank Daniel of <CG> staff enough for being patient with my typos. But I am double-checking everything score-wise so there will be no hold-ups.

One person implied that my web pages are only "steals" ('copy-and-paste') from other authors.

It's this historical background that gives your pages extra interest, at least for me.

And it was ridiculous! lol-

That gentleman has just posted that he did not mean that. He doesn't think you are copy pasting and passing off other people's work as your own.

He just said so on the game thread.

I hope you had a great 4th of July!

<Karpov> v <Vaganian> Blitz training games 1975

(with special guest appearance by Semyon Furman)

My note of words on your site provide us with the same focus that <jessicafischerqueen> provides us on her videos to keep our heads in the game ~ Is much help to keep interest

One person said that (pretty much) "all you do is steal from other people's work."

I am trying to upload two games a day.

That is not a guarantee that they will go in that day, though. 2 uploaded on July 6 are not in yet, but they did make corrections in 2 games.

I will upload 2 games today, but none over the weekend.

<Open Defence> is right. No serious chess enthusiast would ever take such an accusation seriously.

For example, <FSR> also publicly acknowledged the value of your work on these pages.

So have many others at this website, and also those who email you.

I bet the number of emails thanking you for your chess web pages are far, far greater than those criticizing you with such nonsense.