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| Mar-03-20 | | Hans Renette: great to see your work on Pillsbury is almost ready. Looking forward to it! |
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Mar-23-20
 | | jnpope: Ok, I just finished the Table of Contents to vol 2 (not much else to do during this outbreak/lockdown). Other than writing some intro text to vol 2 I think I may actually be done with Pillsbury for another 20-some odd years!! Given the current pandemic crisis I may be forced to release this two volume set digitally. And then once the crisis is over I can consider putting out a limited edition "prestige" hard-cover set. |
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Apr-12-20
 | | Annie K.: <Nick> in Hungarian, the -ben (or -ban) suffix means 'in', or 'at'. So "Sakk-Körben" means at the Sakk-Kör, which means Chess Club. :) |
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Apr-12-20
| | jnpope: Thanks! I was getting Chess Circle as a translation which is often used in French, i.e. Cercle des Échecs. So French and Hungarian tend to use "circle" and the English and German tend to use "club/klub". https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-... |
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Apr-12-20
| | Annie K.: Circle or Club mean the same thing, usage is variable. BTW, please never use accented letters for the player names in your game submissions. Acute and grave letters like Á should be written as regular A, etc.; diaresis and double acute letters like Ö should be written as Oe, etc. It's ok to use accents in the Source tag. :)
And if you could leave a one-line space between the PGN header and movelist, I would appreciate that too. ;) |
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Apr-12-20
| | jnpope: I will try to be mindful of the non-English characters. ChessBase allows for any Latin-based characters and, as it accepts them, I tend to use them. I'm guessing the swap-out is to help locate people via CGs search algorithm? I always wanted Daniel to improve his search logic and I offered to help once... I still have a beautiful wildcard pattern matching and cascading search algorithm I wrote back in my heyday as an eCommerce developer. It would first check for exact match and if none were found it would gradually swap out parts of the search term with wildcards looking for best match, similar match, etc., until it returned something under a "was this what you were looking for" heading... beautiful thing... the philosophy back then was to never return nothing on a search (always keep 'em buying!). |
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Apr-12-20
| | Annie K.: I would love to implement it sometime!
I discussed wildcard searching with Daniel too, and he said that introducing wildcards to his current search method (that we still use) would be too resource-intensive. But if we get around to improving that system, I'll remember your offer. :) Yes, the issue is both the fact that people with no accents on their keyboards would have trouble finding such players, and that the player names are part of the game page titles, which would then look bad in Google indexing. |
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Apr-18-20
| | jnpope: Ok, so Philidor is the exception to the rule? François André Philidor ;-P |
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Apr-21-20
| | jnpope: Ugh... I just shot holes into my favorite candidate for the missing draw: http://www.chessarch.com/archive/18... Leaving only a single candidate remaining... which I suspect will fall at some point as I work my way through Bell's Life in London. |
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Apr-26-20
| | Annie K.: Yes, Philidor was Daniel's test case for accented letters. :) But I believe he is the only one - plus, this case doesn't affect either the search much, or the links that use the shortened name, because the accents are not in the last name. Still, I will ask you not to use any accents, not even in first and middle names. ;) |
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Apr-26-20
| | jnpope: <Annie>: I will keep all the names formatted in the English-Latin alphabet. Any chance of getting Joseph Wilson corrected (see Biographer Bistro)? And for A Zerega vs O Field, 1868 I am fairly certain that the Otis Field who was active in the 1860s died in 1871, he was named "Otis Field" (no middle initial or name found), I believe "Otis Warren Field" to be a younger player who was not active until after 1900. "Otis Field" was a merchant, billiardist and chess enthusiast roughly the same age as Augustus, and I strongly suspect (like 99%) that he is the opponent in that game and not a 16/17 year old "Otis Warren Field". I submitted corrections for both, but the corrections queue appears to be further behind than the submissions queue. |
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Apr-27-20
| | Annie K.: OK, I took care of those. Now let's talk about linking to posts. ;)
When you link to a post with the format that has the kpage attribute (like you just did in the Bistro link) that link is not going to work right for anybody whose ignore list is not identical to yours. In order to have the link work for everybody, use the format that you get most easily by right-clicking the date stamp to the left of the post and copying the link from there. |
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Apr-27-20
| | jnpope: Biographer Bistro (kibitz #20704) |
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Apr-27-20
| | jnpope: Ok. Took me a couple of tries to figure out how to get the link differences using my tablet (I'm not always on my PC). |
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Apr-27-20
| | jnpope: Thanks for creating "Otis Field" (I added a small bio) and moving the Jonathan Wilson games into Joseph Wilson. ;-) |
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Apr-28-20
| | jnpope: <Annie>, what is the best way to submit a couple of replacement games?
I have two games that have better data (site/locale, dates, source info, and more moves in one case, etc.).
Do I submit them as new PGNs with a note or do I shove them through the correction slip form? |
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Apr-28-20
| | Annie K.: Correction slips from the game pages. Although as editor, you can edit site and date yourself. :) |
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Apr-29-20
| | jnpope: <Annie>, I submitted two new Turk games, but on the first one I missed changing the Annotator tag over to be Source. ChessBase doesn't have a Source field, so I use the Annotator field for source data and have to manually swap out the tag text. |
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May-13-20
 | | MissScarlett: Who was the chess columnist for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin? |
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| May-14-20 | | dumptrump: Lewis, then Reichhelm |
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| May-14-20 | | dumptrump: And likely Wells, as well. |
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May-15-20
| | jnpope: Chess Monthly, v3, March 1859, p100, gives Dr. Samuel Lewis and F. Wells starting the column, and stated again Chess Monthly, v5, May 1861, p131. Sometime in 1861 it appears Reichhelm took over the column according to the British Chess Magazine, v26, 1906, p16, but I do not have an exact date when he took it over. |
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May-15-20
| | MissScarlett: Sorry, I should have been more specific.
I was referring to the period in the 1860s covered at <Chess Archaeology>. So Reichhelm is the man, it seems. |
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May-15-20
| | jnpope: Definitely Reichhelm ftom 1864-1870. I should remove the "probably" from the holdings page... |
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May-16-20
| | jnpope: <<Annie K.>: Circle or Club mean the same thing, usage is variable.> Something else I learned today: In England a "Club" was a formal group with a charter, regulations, and officers (i.e. President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, etc.) and inclusion was by membership. Whereas a "Circle" was an informal group where people could just show up. Circles are not dependent upon charters, regulations or a rigid hierarchy of leadership. Today we use the term "club" interchangeably but there was definitely a difference in the 1800s. I'm not sure when the nomenclature started to break down. My guess is probably after World War I. |
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