Chess

Before you go any further, there are a couple of problems, first, these pages use two chess fonts to display the games– a figurine font for the text of the game and second a piece font for each game ending position. It should look something like the graphic below. The problem being that if you don't have either of these fonts, things won't work the way they are supposed to. Solution – download them here (by the way, when you download them, download them into windows/font or the equivalent– this will install them on your system, ready to go). Otherwise, since I use XML to format and tag the content of these games, I'm afraid that for the time being you will just have to use IE5. Yes I know this sucks, but what can I say, maybe Netscape 6 (Opera? Mozilla? who knows…) will even things up again…

“Oh, and for you clever types out there who suggest that you can embed a font (or fonts) in a web document – forget it, this is not yet a viable technology.”

I said that about two years ago and things have changed slightly for the better. The Microsoft approved method for embedding fonts didn't work with non-trivial fonts then– it does now! This is mostly owing to the fact that the utility in question is third party and therefore capable of improving quickly unlike some software I know. Anyway, it will take a while to upgrade this collection, but for those with IE5.x, I've set up a sample file with the first two games from the Boise Chess Club Championship 1995. This file can be viewed without having to download the fonts the page uses.

The process of getting my tournament games onto this web page is covered in an article here. I'll expand it to include a running description of whatever hoops I have to jump through in order to deliver something approaching what I want. Interestingly enough (at least to me!) I will still use XML, but I'll translate them into html using XSL– don't you just love alphabet soup!?

UPDATE! As of 2001.4.29 I've upgraded the rendering on the available game files and I've at least downloaded the necessary software from Bitstream to take care of Netscape and Opera– anyway, that's the current plan…

UPDATE ADDENDUM! As of 2001.5.2 you can not only see the algebraic notation and the final position diagram, you can play through the games. I've added a java game player– just click on the game filename, wait a bit and then next and previous your way through all of the games in whatever collection you were looking at. Initially try it on NAT95 Games, NAT2001 Games, BLIZ97 Games and BCC95 Games. UPDATE These days, the games are all playable using other methods, so the original files linked to have been removed. Look for them in the list below with similar (but longer) names!

UPDATE The Next… As of Fri Mar 01 08:05:53 2002 I've changed things all over again. Found a much better solution than what I've been able to cobble together on my own at http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/palview/index.htm featuring a product called PalView (now version 3.0). I've revised all of my games accordingly although I'll leave the method I used previously in place so you can see the difference. I've also added a few more tournaments to the list below…

Yet another UPDATE As of sometime in late, 2002, I moved from using PalView to using my own version of PalView. As I ran into problems (probably ego based) with the very fine PalView, it occured to me that I could write my own version as a way of solving both the trivial problems of the moment as well as whatever might pop up in the future. So I did. In Perl. Surprise! So what you see here is actually the result of a Perl script and the reverse engineered javascript necessary to duplicate the performance of the original. It has the virture of (if any) of being pretty much under my control (er…whim?)–a typical programmers solution…

In the mean time, you can either wait for me to get my act together, i.e. 1. convert to the new method for IE and 2. investigate the technology that Netscape uses, checking for similar progress. Or you can do what I did in the beginning, and– UPDATE Obviously by now (Sat Jul 13 10:30:17 2002) you could easily wait forever for me to get my act together! That being the case, enjoy what you can and skip the rest…the instructions that follow might still be usful in starting you on the path to your own solutions, go ahead, give it a try! UPDATE time passes slowly up here in the mountains (Tue Oct 05 11:03:22 2010)– hey what's eight years or so! I'm repairing links and such, likewise dusting off the site. You wouldn't be here unless you knew the domain change from .com to .org. I'm sure there is stuff I'm forgetting but hey it's not like it makes all that much difference at this point so sit back and enjoy!

• download the two necessary fonts here:  2chsfnts.zip
• download even more chess fonts here:  Chsfnts.zip
• Or link to these sites for more information:
  • True Type Chess Fonts and Chess DTP
  • Chess Fonts
  • Chess Fonts at McGill University>
• PGN (Portable Game Notation) Standard (html)
• PGN (Portable Game Notation) Standard (text)

Idaho Chess Links:

Internet Chess Club
Idaho Chess Association
Idaho Chess Union

My last 114 (or so…) tournaments:

1. "Idaho Closed – 1981"
   
2. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1981"
   
3. "Boise Open – 1981"
   
4. "Idaho Open – 1981"
   
5. "Strange Quad – 1981"
   
6. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1982"
   
7. "Fall Rating Tournament – 1982"
   
8. "Idaho Closed – 1982"
   
9. "Idaho Open – 1982"
   
10. "Western Idaho Open – 1982"
    
11. "Boise Chess Club Championship– 1983"
    
12. "Fall Open – 1983"
    
13. "Idaho Class Championship – 1983"
    
14. "Idaho Closed – 1983"
    
15. "Idaho Open – 1983"
    
16. "January Quad – 1983"
    
17. "Spring Quad – 1983"
    
18. "Sunday Quad – 1983"
    
19. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1984"
    
20. "Idaho Closed – 1984"
    
21. "Idaho Open – 1984"
    
22. "National Open – 1984"
    
23. "April Quads – 1987"
    
24. "Idaho Closed – 1987"
    
25. "Western Idaho Open – 1988"
    
26. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1988"
    
27. "Boise Open – 1988"
    
28. "Boise Open – 1989"
    
29. "Idaho Closed – 1989"
    
30. "Midsummer Action – 1989"
    
31. "National Open – 1989"
    
32. "Western States Open – 1989"
    
33. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1990"
    
34. "Boise Open – 1990"
    
35. "Idaho Closed – 1990"
    
36. "Idaho Open – 1990"
    
37. "National Open – 1990"
    
38. "Summer Quads – 1990"
    
39. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1991"
    
40. "Boise Open – 1991"
    
41. "Idaho Closed – 1991"
    
42. "Idaho–-Montana Match – 1991"
    
43. "Winter Quads – 1991"
    
44. "Western States Open – 1991"
    
45. "May Quads – 1992"
    
46. "Mid-America Open – 1992"
    
47. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1994"
    
48. "Idaho Open – 1994"
    
49. "May Quad – 1994"
    
50. "Boise–-Reno Match – 1994"
    
51. "Western States Open – 1994"
    
52. "Boise Chess Club Championship – 1995"
    
53. "National Open – 1995"
    
54. "Southern Idaho Open – 1996"
    
55. "Idaho Chess Association Blizzard Open – 1996"
    
56. "Idaho Closed – 1996"
    
57. "Idaho Chess Association Blizzard Open – 1997"
    
58. "Idaho Chess Association Cabin Fever Open – 1997"
    
59. "Idaho Closed – 1997"
    
60. "Magic Valley Chess Club Championship – 1997"
    
61. "National Open – 1997"
    
62. "Cutthroat Classic – 1997"
    
63. "Southern Idaho Open – 1997"
    
64. "Eastern Idaho Open – 1997"
    
65. "Western States Open – 1997"
    
66. "Treasure Valley November Open – 1997"
    
67. "Cactus Pete's – 1997"
    
68. "Boise Blizzard Challenge – 1997"
    
69. "Idaho Closed – 1998"
    
70. "Magic Valley Chess Club Championship – 1998"
    
71. "March Madness – 1998"
    
72. "National Open – 1998"
    
73. "Idaho Open – 1998"
    
74. "Best Western Vista Inn Open I – 1998"
    
75. "Best Western Vista Inn Open II – 1999"
    
76. "Idaho Closed – 1999"
    
77. "National Open – 1999"
    
78. "Magic Valley Chess Club Championship – 1999"
    
79. "Cutthroat Classic – 1999"
    
80. "Western States Open – 1999"
    
81. "Idaho Open – 1999"
    
82. "Idaho Closed – 2000"
    
83. "Western States Open – 2000"
    
84. "National Open – 2001"
    
85. "Idaho Closed – 2002"
    
86. "Western Idaho Open – 2002"
    
87. "Idaho Open – 2002"
    
88. "Southern Idaho Open – 2003"
    
89. "Idaho Closed – 2003"
    
90. "National Open – 2003"
    
91. "Montana Open – 2004"
    
92. "Montana Idaho Wyoming Match – 2004"
    
93. "National Open – 2004"
    
94. "Northern Idaho Open – 2004"
    
95. "Southern Idaho Open – 2004"
    
96. "Idaho Closed – 2005"
    
97. "Barnes & Noble / Twin Falls ID – 2006"
    
98. "ICU Championship M5 (Round of 16) – 2006"
    
99. "ICU Championship M5 – 2006"
    
100. "Idaho Closed – 2007"
     
101. "January Quads – 2007"
     
102. "ICU Magic Valley Chess Club Champ – 2009"
     
103. "Idaho Closed – 2010"
     
104. "Idaho Chess Association Presidents Cup – 2010"
     
105. "Southern Idaho Open – 2010"
     
106. "Treasure Valley Club Champ – 2010"
     
107. "Western Idaho Open – 2010"
     
108. "Idaho Closed – 2011"
     
109. "ICU Twin Falls CC – 2011"
     
110. "Meridian Invitational – 2011"
     
111. "Winter Warmup Invitational – 2012"
     
112. "ICU Magic Valley Chess Club Champ – 2012"
     
113. "ICA Players Memorial – 2012"
     
114. "Meridian Invitational – 2012"
     

Games from various sources…

My games with Jeff Roland

My games with Ted Hartwell

Some games of mine annotated by Stewart Sutton

My games with Glen Buckendorf

My games with Barry Eacker

Partial tournaments and other fragments

What things used to look like:

What they look like using PalView3 pgn2pal.pl:

Kindly ignore the fact that the images above refer to the old site and not the current location. And for that matter are using an antique version of Internet Explorer! Like I said, time sneaks up on you when you are not paying attention and I had other things on my mind…