Category: Chess

Swiss Chess Table Cleaner

A tool that rebuilds tables generated with the tournament manager Swiss-Chess in order to get a responsive and fit it to your corporate identity.

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July 2, 2022

Illegale Schachstellung in der Krimiserie „Derrick“ 1988

In der ZDF-Krimiserie „Derrick“ S12E6 („Wie kriegen wir Bodetzki? ) von 1988 ist ein Schachspieler zu sehen, der über eine illegale Stellung nachdenkt.

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March 20, 2021

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅳ: Pandoc

Pandoc is a command line tool for converting from one markup to another. It uses a largely enhanced markdown syntax as intermediate format. This allows for adding input and output filters for only one format instead of writing them for every possible conversion anew. In case you don’t know what markdown is: It was invented for writing HTML quickly by...

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March 20, 2021

biblatex-archaeology in its environment Ⅲ: LyΧ

LyΧ is an editor for LaTeΧ that resembles WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors like Microsoft Word or LibreOffice. This is achieved by employing HTML for screen output and LaTeΧ for printable formats. Thus the applicable LaTeΧ commands are limited to those for which a HTML complement is available. It is possible to input raw LaTeΧ code...

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March 10, 2021

WP Tournament Registration updated to 1.1.2

I have released a new version (1.1.2) of my WordPress Plugin WP Tournament Registration. There are only small changes in the documentation and it is tested with the brand new WordPress release 5.7 now. You can check it out on the project page or read the entire manual on the WordPress plugin page. Enjoy!

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October 1, 2020

WP Tournament Registration finally released

WP Tournament Registration is my first WordPress plugin to be published in the official WordPress repository. It provides a registration form mainly intended for hobby sport events. Thus it is not planned to provide interfaces to commercial ticketing systems but easy data editing and highly configurable download formats. It was originally developed for the 2020 championship of my local chess...

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September 11, 2020

My first WordPress plugin uploaded for review

Short report on the upload of my WordPress plugin WP Tournament Registration for review.

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July 5, 2020

Rezension von biblatex-archaeology [v2.2] in den „Archäologischen Informationen“

Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte (DGUF) hat in ihrer Verbandszeitschrift Archäologische Informationen im 51. Jahr ihres Bestehens erstmals eine Softwarerezension abgedruckt. Und man glaubt es kaum, sie betrifft mein biblatex-archaeology Paket. Die Besprechung von Anne Klammt, Forschungsleiterin für digitale Geisteswissenschaften am Deutschen Forum für Kunstgeschichte in Paris, fällt recht wohlwollend aus. Early View bei der DGUF Druckfassung im...

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June 5, 2020

Ein Autograph des Spielleiters Strauch von Tempo Göttingen 1961

Über den Eintrag des Spielleiters Strauch vom SC Tempo Göttingen in einem Buch, das als Preis in der Göttinger Stadtmeisterschaft im Schach 1961 vergeben wurde.

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April 30, 2020

Converting chess diagrams to machine readable FEN with Chessify

Chessify is a multi-service chess platform. Since I am not registered with I cannot say much about it. But a single feature of their phone app is really amazing: it allows to take photos of chess diagrams (printed or screen) and converts them into FEN (Forsyth-Edwards-Notation). This is a standard for machine readable description of chess positions. PGN employs it...

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