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The hosting, or the novel event of them not working?Carl Hibbard wrote:It's nothing to do with me this year for the first time in a while.Richard Bates wrote:They stopped working hours ago.Roger de Coverly wrote:
(edit) The second set of live boards appears to have frozen (/edit)
Richard Bates wrote: Does somebody actually have to mention it on here for Dave to know when it isn't working?
There's a reference on the site to pgn4web, but if there's an option to use that instead of the DGT presentation, it's not visible.Paul Dargan wrote:Maybe it's a browser or zoom issue - but much worse than other live coverage I've followed (and with many less games being shown)
Perhaps some procedure notes should be maintainedJonathan Bryant wrote:As I recall, over the last few years things have been a bit shaky on the live game front for the first few days and then they settle down for the rest of the tournament.Richard Bates wrote: Does somebody actually have to mention it on here for Dave to know when it isn't working?
If most IMs have my endgame knowledge then i would rate it pretty poorRichard, what’s your take on Fernandez not trying to prevent ... h5 in the rook ending? I was surprised that an IM wouldn’t play g2-g4 on reflex alone. As somebody of that standard yourself, how would you rate your colleagues endgame knowledge in general?
My knowledge, such as hasn't disappeared from my memory, was all acquired 20+ years ago. I'm atrocious in endgames these days.I noticed the same. I think that reference is a forgotten leftover from last year website, while they do not seem to use pgn4web anymore this year.Roger de Coverly wrote:There's a reference on the site to pgn4web, but if there's an option to use that instead of the DGT presentation, it's not visible.
Results page has Haria beating Hawkins (he lost). Now has Akshaya drawing with Ward (she also lost). Who knows about results off live boards? Wouldn't like to be a journalist trying to make copy...! One can explain a lack of results caused by web problems. But how the wrong results get shown... something of a mysteryMartin Benjamin wrote:According to the ECF Twitter feed: Hawkins is the first to 2/2. Nine boards still live from Aberystwyth.
According to the website: 4 Haria, Ravi Haberdashers As 1.0 ENG 2202 IM Hawkins, Jonathan Consett 1.0 ENG 2516 1-0
It is very confusing and actually puts me off watching as I have no idea if what I am watching is accurate!Richard Bates wrote:Results page has Haria beating Hawkins (he lost). Now has Akshaya drawing with Ward (she also lost). Who knows about results off live boards? Wouldn't like to be a journalist trying to make copy...! One can explain a lack of results caused by web problems. But how the wrong results get shown... something of a mysteryMartin Benjamin wrote:According to the ECF Twitter feed: Hawkins is the first to 2/2. Nine boards still live from Aberystwyth.
According to the website: 4 Haria, Ravi Haberdashers As 1.0 ENG 2202 IM Hawkins, Jonathan Consett 1.0 ENG 2516 1-0
The usual reason for wrong results to emerge from live boards is that the Kings are initially mispositioned at the conclusion of the game. Even if the mistake is rectified almost immediately, the damage is done and the intervention of the live boards operator is required.Richard Bates wrote:Results page has Haria beating Hawkins (he lost). Now has Akshaya drawing with Ward (she also lost). Who knows about results off live boards? Wouldn't like to be a journalist trying to make copy...! One can explain a lack of results caused by web problems. But how the wrong results get shown... something of a mystery
All for the sake of being too clever by half and not willing to design three buttons into the hardware.David Sedgwick wrote: The usual reason for wrong results to emerge from live boards is that the Kings are initially mispositioned at the conclusion of the game.
I don't see what relevance that has to the Results page, which is presumably populated independently of what happens on the live boards. (and as i pointed out the Results page managed to show all three results for Akshaya's game at various points, so can't be anything to do with a faulty result from the live boards)David Sedgwick wrote:The usual reason for wrong results to emerge from live boards is that the Kings are initially mispositioned at the conclusion of the game. Even if the mistake is rectified almost immediately, the damage is done and the intervention of the live boards operator is required.Richard Bates wrote:Results page has Haria beating Hawkins (he lost). Now has Akshaya drawing with Ward (she also lost). Who knows about results off live boards? Wouldn't like to be a journalist trying to make copy...! One can explain a lack of results caused by web problems. But how the wrong results get shown... something of a mystery
David Sedgwick wrote:The usual reason for wrong results to emerge from live boards is that the Kings are initially mispositioned at the conclusion of the game. Even if the mistake is rectified almost immediately, the damage is done and the intervention of the live boards operator is required.
Not necessarily - there may be some kind of automatic feed through. However, ...Richard Bates wrote:I don't see what relevance that has to the Results page, which is presumably populated independently of what happens on the live boards.
... that does make it likely that my suggested explanation was wide of the mark in this instance.Richard Bates wrote:(and as I pointed out the Results page managed to show all three results for Akshaya's game at various points, so can't be anything to do with a faulty result from the live boards)
At previous championships, players were sometimes required to leave the boards as they were, whether on a live board or not.David Sedgwick wrote: ... that does make it likely that my suggested explanation was wide of the mark in this instance.