According to Chess Today, 5 players tied for 1st at Foxwoods.
Final Standings: 1-5. GMs Shabalov, Shulman (wins playoff), Becerra, A. Ivanov and IM Hess (GM Norm) 7/9, etc.
One annoying feature of many American tournaments is that the organisers do not post PGN databases online. One can only wonder if they hope to sell them later for thousands of dollars, but in the meantime they do a disservice to the chess community. Thus you won’t find any games from the Foxwoods Open in our database … (Chess Today)
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Its because they are a bunch of crooks, cheaters, and they promote cheating.
It costs time and money to enter all those games. I think to expect this to be completed right after a tournament is highly ambitious to say the least.
They could set up a XML parse for the PGNs, and use automated virtual real time MD5 hash refresh to secure the entire database. PGNs are lightweight content, and the balkanizing effect of XML would not apply in dealing with PGNs.
There needs to be one international chess database management standard, one that is interoperable, and for the moment, PGN appears to dominate that function. PGN works great, but it seems certain that eventually, AI game analysis of the future will require further data management enhancement.
With all the money Goichberg takes from players to go waste on horse gambling he can afford to go buy 100 monroi gizmos to ensure the top section always has the games available live.
he’s a cheapskate looking only to make money from the chess players and never give anything back
Or buy the damn DGT boards. He doesn’t provide clocks or sets to even GMs. He offers no good conditions. But he’s more than willing to spend USCF money for his agenda.
come on guys,
130 games from early rounds already on foxwoodsopen.com,
and more on monroi.com, from the last rounds
I really do not understand what those Chess Today guys are talking about. Foxwood PGNs are here (and were there before they wrote the article): http://monroi.com/watch/?tnm_id=1016 Bill’s tournaments are superbly covered live by Chris Bird. Did they write how Robert Hess made a GM norm? PGNs of American tournaments are at monroi’s website: http://monroi.com/chess-games.html Can someone send this link to the Chess Today folks, so they would not be “annoyed” about the lack of games any longer.
Anonymous:
re: the statement below. It would take a lot of work for an individual to manually compile the games into a single PGN file. This would be easy to do at the source via a simple program, since the Monroi device generates text automatically. Perhaps Monroi hopes to generate more mouse clicks by making games access more tedious?
Another Anonymous said…
I really do not understand what those Chess Today guys are talking about. Foxwood PGNs are here (and were there before they wrote the article): http://monroi.com/watch/?tnm_id=1016 Bill’s tournaments are superbly covered live by Chris Bird. Did they write how Robert Hess made a GM norm? PGNs of American tournaments are at monroi’s website: http://monroi.com/chess-games.html Can someone send this link to the Chess Today folks, so they would not be “annoyed” about the lack of games any longer.
Monday, March 24, 2008 1:08:00 PM CDT
organizers have complete PGN files. it’s their right to post it or not. based on how you disrespected this organizer, i do not think that he should give you this compilation any time soon. if you are from chess today, you can take a few interesting games from Foxwoods monroi site and annotate them for news. that’s all you need. unless you are from chessbase and want a database of PGNs for purposes of selling those games back to players on a CD.
A few years ago, GM Alex Onischuk wanted to play in the world open. This was after he won the US Championship. Goichberg would not provide him chess equipment and said that GMs have to bring their own gears just like everyone else. He’s too cheap to provide chess equipments for world class GMs like any other organizer in the world. So forget about DGT boards. He’ll never do it unless he makes the USCF pays for it.
Mr. Goichberg is not obligated to provide conditions or equipments for the grandmasters. He is also not obligated to provide complete game scores.
It is up to the players to decide if they want to play in his tournaments or not. Talking about it will not change a thing.
Best wishes,
Susan Polgar