tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post3232210610221830541..comments2023-09-30T18:56:06.919+09:00Comments on The Closet Grandmaster: Championship? What Championship?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post-3047911336844495382008-08-28T13:41:00.000+09:002008-08-28T13:41:00.000+09:00hey dude this slightly critical article of yours o...hey dude this slightly critical article of yours of the nswca reminded me of all those posts of last year from you and your readers that were very anti nswca...........what has changed this year? lets see now.......the only difference is that your mate parr is now a nswca official and so since parrs election you have deleted any anti nswca posts from your readers? or maybe a lot of those anti nswca posts in 2007 were not from your readers but from yourself? from where i sit chess is nsw is no better in 2008 than it was in 2007 so why are you noow so pro nswca?...........if anything chess in sydney is worse this year than last year as some long time tournaments have closed and some ches clubs are clinging to survivalAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post-22382711257699269922008-08-25T16:08:00.000+09:002008-08-25T16:08:00.000+09:00AnonThat's what the site is for - a history of Aus...Anon<BR/><BR/>That's what the site is for - a history of Australian chess in games from the earliest to the latest. You can't expect one person to key in 200 years' worth of games overnight. Perhaps you could offer to help?<BR/><BR/>If you looked a bit harder you'd also find games from quite recent events such as the 2008 Australian Championship.<BR/><BR/>DJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post-22353450486847496672008-08-23T16:51:00.000+09:002008-08-23T16:51:00.000+09:00Wow! positively antiquarian and positively useless...Wow! positively antiquarian and positively useless. I just checked out Ozbase. You can dig up some really, really old or obscure games there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post-19845405993704872432008-08-23T15:25:00.000+09:002008-08-23T15:25:00.000+09:00Correction - that should be 29,000 gamesDJCorrection - that should be 29,000 games<BR/><BR/>DJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post-80651184937079472342008-08-23T15:23:00.000+09:002008-08-23T15:23:00.000+09:00Australian games are collected and archived by Pau...Australian games are collected and archived by Paul Dunn, the ACF Archivist who maintains Ozbase. You can link to it from the ACF Web site www.auschess.org.au. Paul does a terrific job as a labour of love and currently has over 23,000 games on the database.<BR/><BR/>Denis JessopAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14539885.post-28626880096299048552008-08-23T08:16:00.000+09:002008-08-23T08:16:00.000+09:00Yes, shocking news ain't it: "ResultsThur...Yes, shocking news ain't it:<BR/> "Results<BR/>Thursday August 14th at Parramatta RSL<BR/>Round 2<BR/>Dejan Antic 0-1 George Xie"<BR/>http://www.chesschat.org/showthread.php?t=8179&page=5<BR/><BR/>But where are the games???<BR/><BR/>BTW, does anyone know where I can find collection of Australian chess games in pgn etc? Is anyone actually collecting them, Australia wide, and making them available on the Net?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com