Apr-25-22
 | | WTHarvey: Cattle dogs are good with children and vultures. |
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Apr-27-23
| | WTHarvey: There once was a chess player keen
He studied each move he had seen
With tactics so clever
His games were a pleasure
His passion for chess was extreme!
There once was a chess player bright
Whose moves were a beautiful sight
He never lost hope
Or his skill, he would mope
For he believed in fighting the good fight.
There once was a chess player so keen
Whose passion for the game was extreme
He'd study and strategize
And often would visualize
His victories, in every daydream. |
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Apr-27-23
 | | fredthebear: I like your puzzles and poems WTH! |
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Apr-30-23
| | WTHarvey: Thank FTB but the poems are ChatGPT's. It's limericks have gotten much better. How about these chess tactics haiku? Sneaky knight's attack
Double threat, fork in the road
Checkmate is in sight
A skewer in chess,
Piercing through two pieces deep,
A victory's sweep.
Pieces multi-task
Overloaded, can't keep up
Checkmate, game over
Queen takes knight in sight,
Unexpected move in flight,
Zwischenzug takes might.
Thought provoking to say the least. :-) I tried 'Boden's Mate' or 'Cozio's Mate' but it didn't seem to get the idea what pieces were involved. |
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Apr-09-24
 | | perfidious: <WTHarvey>, I submitted a game you posted at a player page yesterday. In the last few months, I have sent on hundreds of such games, a process which was once a headache but which is now no problem, as there is a fellow admin who is very good about getting them into the system. One need only go to the home page and click the link on the banner to the right called 'PGN Upload Utility ', which takes the user to a page with detailed instructions. If you propose to send on multiple games, contrary to the injunction against that action on the page, it is now permitted, and is actually easier than to send on all single games; I routinely send on batches of ten or so games in one go. Hope this helps. |
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Sep-01-24
 | | Stonehenge: You are trying to submit games that are already in the database: A Khasin vs R Nezhmetdinov, 1957 A Geller vs A Cherepkov, 1955. Also the <[Date "1957/??/??"]> format won't work, it should be <[Date "1957.??.??"]>. I sneaked in another submission of yours:
Keres vs NN, 1960. You had:
<[Event "Simultan"]
[Site "Habana (Cuba)"]
[Date "1960/??/??"]
[Round ""]
[White "Keres Paul (EST)"]
[Black "Gonzalez Zamora Juan Carlo (MEX)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[Eco "E46"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source "ChessAssistant21"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Nge2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.Ng3
c5 8.dxc5 dxc4 9.Qc2 Bxc5 10.Bxc4 a6 11.b4 Be7 12.Bb2 b5 13.Bd3
Bb7 14.O-O Nbd7 15.Rad1 Qb6 16.Nce4 Rac8 17.Qb1 h6 18.Bd4 Qc7
19.Qa1 Rcd8 20.Rd2 Qb8 21.Rfd1 Qa8 22.f3 Bd5 23.Nxf6+ Bxf6 24.Be4
Bxd4 25.Rxd4 Nf6 26.Bxd5 Rxd5 27.e4 Rdd8 28.Rxd8 Rxd8 29.Rxd8+
Qxd8 30.Qc3 h5 31.Ne2 Nd7 32.Qd4 Qb6 33.Kf2 e5 34.Qxb6 Nxb6 35.Nc3
Kf8 36.Ke2 Ke7 37.Kd3 Nc4 38.Nd5+ Kd7 39.Ne3 Nxa3 40.Kc3 g5 41.Kb3
Nb1 42.Nf1 1-0>
Juan Carlos Gonzalez Zamora wasn't yet born in 1960 :) |
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Sep-01-24
| | WTHarvey: <Stonehenge> Thx! I'll proceed with caution. |
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Sep-01-24
| | WTHarvey: <perfidious> Thx for the link. Very helpful! |
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Sep-21-24
| | Stonehenge: Is it possible to use 365chess.com instead of the horrible Chess Assistant 21? I'm not too happy with vague stuff like <[Event "It"]> or <[Event "Ch France"]> when it could be something like <FRA-chT2A 0506>. |
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Sep-21-24
| | Stonehenge: Also, since Chess Assistant doesn't use commas between surnames and given names, it creates a lot of duplicate player files. |
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Sep-23-24
| | WTHarvey: I'll use 365chess.com Thx ! |
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Sep-24-24
| | Stonehenge: Thanks. They don't have everything, but ChessBites is another free option. |
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Oct-15-24
| | Stonehenge: For the more recent tournaments, say the last 20 years or so, I prefer 365 because ChessBites doesn't use full dates. |
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| Oct-16-24 | | stone free or die: <<the real stone> For the more recent tournaments, say the last 20 years or so, I prefer 365 because ChessBites doesn't use full dates.> Interesting update. |
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Oct-18-24
| | Stonehenge: Next thingy:
<[Source "chessbites.com" date by Chess Assistant 21]> is wrong. Quotation marks only at the beginning and at the end please: <[Source "chessbites.com date by Chess Assistant 21"]> is right. It seems nitpicking but otherwise it won't process properly. |
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| Feb-01-25 | | YoungEd: Thanks for all your puzzles, <WTHarvey!> They're appreciated. |
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Mar-19-25
| | WTHarvey: 14 Queen Sacrifices of Boris Spassky
https://lichess.org/study/36hRI9xX |
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Apr-12-25
| | WTHarvey: The Chessboard Paradox
A knight stood unmoved, quite aloof,
While logic cried, “Jump to the roof!”
But stillness, not flight,
Was the brilliant insight—
The threat was more potent than proof. |
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Jul-13-25
| | WTHarvey: 24 Queen Sacs by JR Capablanca
https://lichess.org/study/yvPnK52z |
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Aug-21-25
| | WTHarvey: Lichess.org rated 'mate in 3' puzzles:
2400-99 https://wtharvey.com/ap324.html
2500-99 https://wtharvey.com/ap325.html
2600 and up https://wtharvey.com/ap326.html |
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Aug-24-25
 | | offramp: Thanks for those puzzles! |
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