tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post6356100764753821136..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: Confused? You will beTom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-69783413424650620662009-02-07T11:13:00.000+00:002009-02-07T11:13:00.000+00:00Error spotters - well done and thanks. Actually I ...Error spotters - well done and thanks. Actually I should have known better to prepare a complex piece on the nmight before a two-day business trip away from the internet: normally I'd find and correct errors in the morning. So thanks for that: an ordinary chessplayer is right in both instances which have both been corrected (as has a third error which seani was kind enough to point out to me separately).<BR/><BR/>However, it does all serve to illustrate the point, which I've made on here before. errors of this sort are almost inevitable - whether you're publishing on the internet or in print. However, there is supposed in book publishing to be a checking process, called copy-editing, which - while there's no process which is infallible - should catch most of the errors, and all the most glaring ones. It's my informed suspicion that some chess publishers do not employ copy-editors (or, at very least, have not done so in the recent past). If Cadogan had one in 1998, what was he or she doing while checking page 27-9?ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-23927877238783725852009-02-06T16:20:00.000+00:002009-02-06T16:20:00.000+00:00Incidentally,I was supposed to proof read this pos...Incidentally,<BR/><BR/>I was supposed to proof read this post and while I may not have been as conscientious as I should have been I assumed the absent king in the first diagram was missing in the original.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-7266796565360801932009-02-05T17:36:00.000+00:002009-02-05T17:36:00.000+00:00Now a couple of questions for youEJH is away and t...<I>Now a couple of questions for you</I><BR/><BR/>EJH is away and therefore not available to respond for at least a few days.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-59143908079920111512009-02-05T15:54:00.000+00:002009-02-05T15:54:00.000+00:00I recognize 33B as Darga - Lengyel from the 1964 A...I recognize 33B as Darga - Lengyel from the 1964 Amsterdam Interzonal. On my WCC site I noted, 'The premature resignation may even have cost Darga a place in the subsequent playoff for the last spot in the Candidates matches.' <BR/><BR/>You can always look up the rest in a database. - MarkMark Weekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10101044127493771263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-35319094313391295532009-02-05T13:31:00.000+00:002009-02-05T13:31:00.000+00:00In K.Darga - L.Lengyel, isn't there a white King m...In K.Darga - L.Lengyel, isn't there a white King missing (or is that part of the fun?)<BR/><BR/>maybe it's taken up Vassily's idea and is off in the background, kissing the queen...<BR/><BR/>SeaniAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-31969522281739558272009-02-05T10:14:00.000+00:002009-02-05T10:14:00.000+00:00Very amusing. Back in the days of rub-on transfer ...Very amusing. Back in the days of rub-on transfer diagrams I can imagine the things falling on the floor and some poor non-chessplayer trying to figure out which went where. What boggles the mind is that in the electronic age it is still possible to publish game scores that don't play through. The database program will not allow that, but somehow the printed version still has errors. Has happened to me more than once.<BR/><BR/>Now a couple of questions for you: (1) Was the author really given as Edgar? (2) Why didn't you also point out the missing the white king in diagram "31"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com