Little changes to the expanded version of posted game viewer:

• As you arrow through the game, current move number is highlighted in comments (if there are comment on this move). It helps at the end of the games (or with short games) when the current comments are not at the top any longer.
• You can click comment move number to sync game position to the comment.
• Links to posted game lead to the expanded version of the viewer.

MFO1600 swept their opponent in style: 4-0. For MFO1800, it was very close. Here's how close it was:

In this position from gile-whis game (rare case of two 4-letter names), Whis who was playing white had 43. Rc6!, making f4 a mate. If he did that, all gile's work would be wasted. He missed, the game ended a draw, and MFO got a win.

SamuraiGoroh(1618) whispers:

that was close

Irina Krush, the women's champion, said she was getting into chess more than ever, while Samuel Shankland, the junior champion, may be quitting professional chess.

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MFO_UltimatePatzers are doing surprizingly great given their low rating. They did not lost a match yet with two draws and a win. That puts them at third place in the standings.

MFO1600 continue rocking with two wins and a draw. They are in the second place currenlty. But, they lost a body - jabONE is MIA. (If not for that, I would expect three wins.)

Hi buti, call me waste of web resource or anything. I cannot help to create this new topic

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH WE WIN

That is something I wanted to do for years...

MFO games have comments to allow opponents talk to each other. A line or two per move max was expected, if any, so there was no need to make the comment window big. Here's the classical example.

Then, the same code was reused for posted games. The idea was to post the game, then edit it to add your comments. Here's an example of that. I copied the comments from somewhere.

Next, I allowed the comments in the input PGN, and that opened the door for Mekk's bot games. Those games have a lot of whispers, and the comment window is definitely not big enough for that. I made is as big as I could w/o breaking other applications, but it was not enough. Because of the small window height, I strip line breaks that Mekk's PGN contains. That makes the text fit better, but ruins the readability.

It was time for another viewer, designed especially to view Mekk's games. The LT-PGN viewer Mekk uses on his site is excellent, but I don't like that the column for comments cannot get wider if I has space on my screen. Plus, I did not want yet another code on the site, so I reused the existing one. Here's how it works.

If you go to posted games forum, you'll notice that latest ahorse game is posted twice. Open the latest post, by me. Press the ExpComm button (below on the right). You get to a page with everything stripped out and comments on the right. Hit right arrow and watch the game. Notice that line breaks are restored. Try different sizes of the browser window - comment window takes as much space as it can.

I have two problems left. First one is old - smiley ruins a comment (see move 3). It does not happen that often, but it is still a bore. I have to investigate this one. Second is urgent - what do I write on the new button? The problem is - the button should not stick out to the right more that the field below. Otherwise, it may break down to the next line on a narrow screen - ugly.

Any ideas?

What's going on fellas, nice work on the recent games. I've been working in Oakland and San Francisco 24/7 the past week or else i would have watched them. So are we guaranteed first now since ahorse won? Or is Josh's game going to decide it all? Whats the next move/step for us after this TL tourny too as far as team games/competition?

A conflict has pitted two former world champions and onetime enemies, Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov, against high-ranking Russian officials.

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With the current score (2-0), that guarantees us the pass to the final (because we placed 1st, so a tie will make us pass).

This time we have it easy since a draw on the next round will make us co-champions, so is very likely we'll bring back the cup after long time...
Good job everyone ^.^

With a score time at 5.5 a piece in a 12 game match, Topalov had white pieces in the last round. Nevertheless, Anand put up a spectacular performance with black peices to win the game and thus defend the title.

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The world championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov has been as closely contested as predicted, but there have been no eye-opening innovations.

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Veselin Topalov's aggressive style (some would call it reckless) was on display in his victory at the Linares Tournament in Spain.

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Magnus Carlsen of Norway defeated his rival Sergey Karjakin at the Corus tournament in the Netherlands.

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I wanted to automate the process of inserting an excellent Mekk's frame into MFO post, but I did not want to add yet another button to already crowded editor. So, you add the frame the same way you add a video from youtube. Steps:

• Find the game you need on Mekk's site, arriving, for example, on this page http://mekk.waw.pl/mk/watchbot/game/670194
• Copy the URL
• Click on Video button
• Paste the URL into the input field
• Click OK

Floated left div will be inserted into your post. Do I need a border around it maybe? How can I improve the discoverability of this feature?

At the World Cup, Wang Yue and Li Chao showed up late for tie-breaker games in their third-round matches and had to forfeit because they had been smoking.

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