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 | | Benzol: <EmperorAtahualpa> I was about to do a bio after your request and found someone had already done one. So thanks to whatever administrator did it. A fine job too. :) |
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| Mar-13-06 | | Blackmagic: CG.com, why next to her "highest rating achieved" is 2499, when in the bio you wrote 2560? |
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| Mar-13-06 | | acirce: <Blackmagic> Pay no attention to the "highest rating achieved" thing, it's a useless and misleading feature. It's based on games in this base only, and the overwhelming majority of players lack lots of their games here. |
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| Mar-20-06 | | twinlark: <acirce> Are you sure (second time I've asked you that today - no matter)? FIDE's ratings are presumably based on all of a player's registered results that are forwarded to it by International Arbiters, and there are very many ratings in Chessgames.com that are identical to FIDE's historical ratings. CG.com only prints a fraction of a player's games and I can't see how anything remotely sensible could result from that. Highest rating in this database can't mean it's based on only the games in the database, surely. <Chessgames.com> Can you clarify? |
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| Mar-20-06 | | acirce: That's what they say at ChessGames.com Statistics Page They might be correct for most of the 2700+ players (haven't checked them all) but it definitely doesn't apply on the rest. |
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| Mar-20-06 | | twinlark: <chessgames.com> I don't get it. Why not source the FIDE ratings website for the correct ratings? |
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| Mar-20-06 | | Karpova: I guess that the <highest rating achieved in database> is genereated automatically and depends on the highest rating shown on a score sheet.
looking up fide.com for every players' rating would be time consuming, don't you think so? |
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| Mar-22-06 | | twinlark: You're no doubt right. If there'd been a simple or even moderately complex fix for this problem, I'm sure CG.com would have done it long ago. After all, the FIDE ratings change every three mpnths, and there's no way that FIDE's update could automatically flow through to these pages. There'd be a huge amount of work involved in checking all of the thousands of pages every three months and updatng even a few hundred of them. <Chessgames.com> I'm sorry if I've sounded critical in earlier posts. That was uninformed and unworthy of me. Would it be possible to eventually set up the ratings field so that the database updating could be further updated manually by administrative player editors if the cost/benefit of doing so was remotely rational? Just a thought. |
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Mar-30-06
 | | chessgames.com: <<chessgames.com> I don't get it. Why not source the FIDE ratings website for the correct ratings?> For the record, the "highest achieved rating" is the highest rating shown on any of the scoresheets in the database, modified by any edits that administrators make. Since we don't have every single game for every single player, this figure is sometimes lower than the true highest rating. Furthermore, there are errors on some scoresheets. In other cases, scoresheets indicate ratings which are not official, e.g. Shirov's rating shot up to over 3000 when we imported some games from an ICC simul. Hans Berliner had a rating in the 2700's because his games indicated the ICCF correspondence rating. Many American players show their USCF rating which tends to be higher than FIDE ratings at the upper end of the scale. <there are very many games in Chessgames.com that are identical to FIDE's historical ratings. CG.com only prints a fraction of a player's games and I can't see how anything remotely sensible could result from that.> Believe it or not, the method of taking a semi-random sample of games across all periods of the player's career does a pretty good job at getting close or nailing the true highest rating, but it's subject to many errors. Remember, the period of time that a person enjoys their highest rating is at least 3 months, and for older players it would be 12 months, as FIDE used to post rating lists only on a yearly basis. The likelihood of us having a game from the player's highest rated interval is fairly good. And so, while I can't agree with acirce that the statistic is "useless", it definitely can be misleading. The highest-rating field helps is in many ways, but people who turn to this statistic for any kind of scientific survey will surely be disappointed. We have actually begun obtaining rating data from FIDE, but only if the rating that FIDE shows exceeds the one we have in our database. The same technology to do this will provide for us, In the future, a "current rating" field which we import from the official source. |
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| Apr-01-06 | | DeepBlade: Try the Slav, Charmeleon, Advanced System
Tan Zhongyi vs A Stefanova, 2004 |
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| Apr-19-06 | | chesswonders: Happy birthday! |
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| May-04-06 | | DutchDunce: <HB> Er...shouldn't that comment be reserved for Susan Polgar? |
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| May-04-06 | | DutchDunce: Curious if there are any Anti-Tromp books on the open market? Stefanova's plays almost nothing but Bg5 and yet her opponents are still getting creamed. I wonder if a little opening prep would be the antidote for that. |
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| Jun-08-06 | | BIDMONFA: Antoaneta Stefanova STEFANOVA, Antoaneta
http://www.bidmonfa.com/stefanova_a...
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| Jun-08-06 | | Bartleby: <Curious if there are any Anti-Tromp books on the open market? Stefanova's plays almost nothing but Bg5 and yet her opponents are still getting creamed. I wonder if a little opening prep would be the antidote for that.> Michael Jeffreys has written an entire book on dealing with non c4 D-Pawn systems (Colle, Torre, London, Tromp, etc) with his recommendations. It's been reviewed at Chessville: http://www.chessville.com/reviews/D... Although personally, his recommendation against the Tromp isn't to my taste as black. A full pawn center is a full pawn center, after all. I prefer 2. ... c5!? for a sharp reply or 2. ... Ne4 and 3. ... d5 for a solid one. |
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| Aug-24-06 | | Albertan: An interview of Stefanova is at:
http://www.worldchesscup2005.com/ma... |
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| Sep-07-06 | | dravid: She's cute. |
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| Oct-30-06 | | euripides: <bartleby> that book is by John Cox; Martin Jeffreys is the reviewer. |
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| Nov-01-06 | | ahmadov: This lady beats Negi and Harikrishna at Cap d'Agde. Not bad at all! |
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| Apr-18-07 | | DutchDunce: Yep, she won the silver on tiebreaks against the older Kosintseva. What I don't understand is why players insist on playing 1...Nf6 when Stefanova has White. Stefanova has one answer to that, the Tromp. And invariably she knows the opening better than her opponent and wins. This to me signals that you must either (A) play something other than Nf6; or (B) learn the Tromp better than Stefanova (good luck there). Instead, players choose option (C) which is allow the Tromp without a clue, and lose. No sense whatsoever. |
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| Apr-19-07 | | Eti fan: Hello everybody,
I am new to chessgames.com. I have been reading it for a while and decided to get into the discussions. I start with my first post here because I am a big fan of Antoaneta Stefanova - Eti and want to wish her all the best for her birthday (April 19th). Happy birthday Eti! |
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| Jul-29-07 | | AlexandraThess: She is a good player with good tactical skills in addling her opponent's head. Unfortunately for her, she lacks consistency in her positional play, which is intolerable on this level. That's why she is constantly losing points. |
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| Nov-21-07 | | trapdor: I heard she just finished first in a women-men team match in Mexico with a undefeated 6/8 score. Anyone has a link? |
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| Apr-08-08 | | gadfly: Eti is having an incredibly successful string of tournaments during 2008 and gained more than 74!!! over the last rating period. At 2538 she seems to be set on breaking her all-time highest rating of 2560. At the Women's Russian Club Cup after seven rounds of which she played 5, she has won 4 games, drawn one and remains undefeated! If she keeps playing at that level, I would not be surprised if she breaks 2600 by the end of the year and joins the top 3 in the women's Fide top list. |
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| Apr-19-08 | | brankat: <gadfly> Yes, Antoaneta has been in great form this year, so far. Not only at the Russian Club Cup, but also earlier in Gibraltar and Reykjavik Open. West wishes for Your Birthday, Antoaneta! |
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