Maybe the sighted player was hoping to catch blindfold in a blind man's bluff because blindfold couldn't read the little board.

Give, p.b. Give.

That's the point. He wouldn't know--or care--how big the set was, so it was kind of silly to ask.

There were two Jan Kleczynskis (father and son).
Father: 1837 to 1895
Son: 1875 to 1939
Both played chess. The first two games (against Winawer, 1868 and 1871) are probably from father Kleczynski. The next three games must be from his son (considering that the opponents were Duchamp, Tartakower and Chepurnov).

There is also a collection for Game Collection: Database Questions for unresolved problems; as these are they can be submitted and moved to the other collection.

I want to emphasize right at the start that this documentation is not meant as a criticism of the chessgames.com administrators. They provide a wonderful job of providing not just a database, but a community where the games can be discussed. Maintaining the site and adding new games, tournaments and features will always be higher priority than corrections, but I wish there was some way we could get more people doing such updates.

Perhaps I should explain my interest in the topic. As I've mentioned in my profile, I'm a librarian who specializes in cataloging, which means that I am responsible adding and maintaining the information you find in a database which represents the library's catalog.

A large part of my job is "authority work", which involves making sure that standardized search terms such as author's name are used consistently. You want to be able to find all of Capablanca's books at once, instead of having half under "Jose Raul Capablanca", half under "Jose R. Capablanca", half under "J. R. Capablanca", and the rest under "Capablanka".

1) A brief description of the problem;
2) A brief description of the solution;
3) Some source which backs up the correcton.

When making references to games or players in the database, I try to give the direct links to them. Anything that makes the job of the corrector easier has to be a good idea.

I can't say that I have had more success than anybody else in getting corrections, but I do think it important to justify my reasoning as much as possible

I have for example two questions about the game Rossolimo vs I Romanenko, 1948:

a) Was this game really played in Badgastein or was it Salzburg? The two towns are not a great distance apart and Rossolimo played indeed in Badgastein in 1948, but I don't think Romanenko was there.

b) My memory tells me that Black resigned after 17.Ng5. Were the last moves by Black and White really played?

That was the idea. I thought of this forum as essentially an alerting service so that we wouldn't have to go through all the current kibitizes to find problems.

I've added the game to Game Collection: Database Questions, which people might check from time to time as well. I've also done a little bit searching, with these results:

1) The game was not played in the tournament at Bad Gastein 1948; see http://www.365chess.com/tournaments...

2) Of course it may have been a simul or other offhand game. What evidence do you find for Salzburg?

3) We can't be sure of Black's identity.

4) I was unable to find this game online to check the score. Does somebody find a source for the game?

Rossolimo - Romanenko
Salzburg, 1948
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 g6 4.O-O Bg7 5.Re1 Nf6 6.Nc3 Nd4 7.e5 Ng8 [7...Ng4 8.Nxd4 cxd4 9.Qxg4 dxc3 10.e6]
8.d3 Nxb5 9.Nxb5 a6 10.Nd6+ exd6 11.Bg5 Qa5 12.exd6+ Kf8 13.Re8+ Kxe8 14.Qe2+ Kf8 15.Be7+ Ke8 16.Bd8+ Kxd8 17.Ng5 Black resigns (threat: 18. Nxf7#; 17... Nh6 Qe7#) 1-0

or http://www.newinchess.com/NICBase/

[Event "Salzburg"]
[Site ""]
[Date "1948.??.??"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Rossolimo, Nicolas"]
[Black "Romanenko, Ivan Simon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[NIC "SI 31.7.7"]
[ECO "B31"]
[PlyCount "33"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 g6 4. O-O Bg7 5. Re1 Nf6 6. Nc3 Nd4 7. e5 Ng8 8. d3 Nxb5 9. Nxb5 a6 10. Nd6 exd6 11. Bg5 Qa5 12. exd6 Kf8 13. Re8 Kxe8 14. Qe2 Kf8 15. Be7 Ke8 16. Bd8 Kxd8 17. Ng5 1-0

And as a curiosity, this bookmarker says the game was played in a coffee house in Vienna: http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/...

Uhlmann vs Portisch, 1964 See my kibitz.

Ljubojeviv Lj vs Short, 1989 and Ljubojeviv Lj for obvious reasons

I suggested to merge the games of Germek Milan, Germek and M Germek. His real name is Milan Germek.

(1) A Zaitsev vs Uhlmann, 1968 (2) A Zaitsev vs Uhlmann, 1968

How would you decide which should be deleted? Game 1 was input first, as part of a collection of Uhlmann's games. Game (2) was input as part of the tournament, and has more complete information about the event inlcuidng round numer and date.

I agree.

So, here is my mindless ramblin':

Plus I'm depressed today. I still owe $4 for my share of Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick's legal fees. I've put it off as long as I could, but it's due tomorrow.

Positionalgenius 38 days, 10 hours
1345 (265)

1. e4 c5

2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Qxd4 Nc6 5. Bb5 Bd7 6. Bxc6 Bxc6 7. Nc3 e5 8. Qd3 Nf6 9. Bg5 Be7 10. Rd1 Qc7 11. O-O Rd8 12. Bxf6 gxf6 13. Nh4 Bd7 14. Nd5 Qc8 15. Nxe7 Kxe7

16. Qxd6+ Ke8 17. Qxf6 1-0
White Win

A modest proposal:

It occurred to me that a universal tag would be useful. A unique string that could be found via the Search Kibitzing function. For instance, if each post with a correction contained "DB_Correction" or "DBC:" or some such agreed upon tag, the progress or lack thereof could easily be tracked.

My only problem with it is that the kibitz stays there forever, so the tag would remain there even if the problem were fixed. Maybe we could add a second kbitiz noting that the problem had been resolved.