Game Collection: Game of the Day Pun Index (A-C)

In 2012, the top number of errors for a shortstop was 27. Now, look at Honus Wagner, generally considered a great shortstop of the Dead Ball Era:

http://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/...

If you scroll down to the fielding numbers, you see what would be an incredible and unacceptable amount of errors today. Over a 162 game season, Wagner would average nearly 60 errors a year.

I've heard Ralph Kiner reminisce about just how good a fielder Wagner was, even as an old man.

I have a question: I looked at this and I can't figure out if the missing games have been added?

Game Collection: USSR Championship 1937

<USSR Championship 1937
Compiled by suenteus po 147

Game Collection: USSR Championship 1939

Game Collection: USSR Championship 1940

Will you tell me if the missing games have indeed been added to all three collections?

It strikes me that it wouldn't take very long to just reconstruct the tournament, add in the missing game and an introduction, and then re-nominate it?

Obviously Peter would be credited with the original collection.

I see that Peter (whose username I always remembered as suetonius, but is a bit different) has started collections on the Hoogovens tournaments in Beverwijk. I wonder if he already submitted the games, for I can easily find them and submit them. I think they are complete from 1950 onwards, but from the 1940s there are many games missing, in fact probably lost.

PS. A few days ago I did a correction on the result of the game Robatsch-Donner, Havana 1965 and I see that this correction has already been implemented. I hope and trust that such corrections do not interfere with the project.

PPS. The introductions to your game collections seem to have a life of their own and are making it rather time-consuming to search for a specific collection, especially if the title begins with a letter in the latter half of the alphabet.

I've been going much too quickly in all editing actions, not checking closely enough, and also not waiting for answers to important questions such as country codes.

I should have waited for you to answer my question about the USSR Championships before deciding to put (RUS) in all of them. Now I have made a big clean up mess that I could have avoided just by slowing down long enough for you to answer my question about this.

So yes I'm sorry, but more concretely I will slow down on everything. If I have a question to you or another senior editor, I'll wait for the answer. If I disagree with the answer, then we'll have a discussion and reach a consensus before I act. If I see a collection nomination, I'll take a good, long, hard look at the entire thing before clicking "AYE."

You and Peter and Paul (and others) did a massive amount of work on those USSR collections and I feel very bad about cocking up the nomination and promotions on them.

A couple of months ago, <cg> began a concerted effort toward constructing the long-requested historical tournament pages. A first step was to give the Biography Editors (now styled Games Editors) the power to add or correct date and round information on game pages so that the Historical Tournament pages would display properly.

My Historical Tournament pages 1&2 are a record of collections which had been updated. (We soon finished over 200 collections, totalling nearly 20,000 games).

Pages 3&4 were suggestions for future work. I took most of them from Peter's (suenteus po 147's) work. I had been planning to go back and add collections from others as well, but the whole thing has sort of gotten away from me.

Even though we're still swamped with work, additional collections from important tournaments are encouraged. Peter has not been active for several months, and there seems little chance of his coming back anytime soon. If he started a collection with only a few games, please feel free to redo it.

I have no idea about the status of his submitted games, and it seems the only way to check is by searching the database.

I see you have finished some collections already. Is there any way you can find the dates of the individual rounds? The games in an Historical Tournament collection are ordered by date; if this is missing, a mess ensues. For an example, see USSR Championship (1931), where the games are in no apparent order.

Even without the dates, though, good collections are useful. If the dates can be found and added afterward, everything will be fine.

PS. The correction slip process does not hamper our work at all. In fact, once corrections are made they are automatically reflected on the Historical Tournament page and enhance its quality. If you hadn't noticed, corrections are being made much more efficiently these days.

PPS. I'm not completely sure what you mean. Are you say that the my Historical Tournaments 1-4 lists are clogging up the searching process? I can only apologize for that, but hopefully the problem will slowly go away since I am trying to remove entries from these introductions as they are turned into Historical Tournament pages.

Yes, last year (as jww) I made collections of the Saltsjobaden 1948 interzonal because there wasn´t one, which surprised me for such an important tournament, and of Beverwjk 1963 and 1967 because those tournaments interested me for some reason.

As for the dates, next time I am in Amsterdam, probably in a few weeks, I will visit the Max Euwe Centrum which is reported to have one of the largest collection of chess books in the world. (Only the Koninklijke Bibliotheek in Den Haag seems to have more.) I´ll see what that collection can offer me but even tournament books don´t always provide that information, so I may have to look in the magazines too.

I don´t intend to spend much time on your project, for I think it´s largely a waste of effort. In most tournaments only a minority of the games is really worth looking at, so why collect all the games and create a separate page for each of the tournaments?

This time I'll await an answer from you, but any future nominations I make will use this list as a guide to the country code:

<Regarding <Phony Benoni's> idea to use current FIDE country codes, here's a fairly current list:

http://users.skynet.be/hermandw/if/...

So in this list Germany is (GER) and England is (ENG).

I suggest we follow his suggestion, and for the time being at least, let's all use these codes for the nomination site field?

Don't be thrown off by the Flags on this list, they are the FIDE flags for each country, not the actual national flags.>

Discussions about decisions seem to have a way of petering out or becoming "forgotten" over time.

However, I'd like to be able to nominate events without causing future clean up problems.

You suggested this list, and Daniel previously alluded that he was pleased we had been using more recognizable codes for some of the countries than are featured in the list he put in the nomination box.

Such as (ENG) and (GER), I assume.

So, if you don't want me to follow the FIDE list in any new nominations, just let me know and tell me to wait more.

If you do think this would be ok for me to do, please let me know.