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![]() Wednesday, April 14, 2004 My New Game Site:Jesse Perry's brother Jimmy told me yesterday he's got a game domain, chessnut.net, but nobody's had the time to do anything much with it — could I do something? So I took a look and, Yes Jimmy! I added a quick background picture for a sort of improv logo and spent most of the day chasing some sites people at FICS [(freechess.org) (or Free Internet Chess Society)] pointed me towards for a free game display program. FICS will send you an email note with the games you play recorded in PGN (Portable Game Notation) format, or you can tell the interface program, winboard.exe, to record your games in PGN format. I've got a few games (including a game from Garry Kasparov's famous match with computer Deep Blue) up on the site in demo form, but I've got to work on automatic loading today — right now, if you click that game it comes up with the game notation in the right frame, and you have to copy and paste the game into the display frame ybefore you can watch the game... Maybe I can do a quick fix (or maybe I can find a different display program...). I'll let you know. Update: I found a freeware program that converts PGN format files directly into HTML/JavaScript files, PGNtoJS. That works really well, so I converted the examples I had into the new format. And found out that it does group archive files too. Jesse asked about Paul Morphy games, so I looked that up and found an archive page that has all of Mophy's official games...that's cool. So I converted that into HTML (big file — 1.7M) and put that up. So along with my recent games and an archive that came with the PGNViewer of the 1927 NY Tournament that has lots of games by Casablanka and Alekhine and Nimzovitch (not sure about those spellings!) oh, it's Capablanca and Nimzovich and Alekhine... Anyways, take a look at http://chessnut.net/ and let me know. via The Register
posted by Gary Williams at 12:32 PM | link | Monday, April 12, 2004 via Fark.com and RedNova.com Fluids In Space — New Physics At The ISS![]() This is an effect that happens every once an awhile, I don't know why. It's like the bottom edge of the browser window gets stuck, and when you scroll the page, it repeats a little, then stretches into a set of lines. In this case, I was struck by the effect (which lasted a lot longer than it usually does) to I triggered the screengrabber software I have installed and captured the image you see (with a shadow added for effect...) If you know why IE does this, let me know... posted by Gary Williams at 11:36 AM | link | |
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