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**Just2Good** · 10-01-2008, 02:55 PM

I have entitled this post News News News because I just discovered something!

I don't know why I didn't do this before, but Bill's post prompted me to dig a little deeper. So I tallied, using the Admin CP, the total post count from July 07 when OzChess started through to 30 September 2008.

The number, added manually by myself using a calculator was 9385. I did this twice and reached 9385 both times (for the sake of accuracy).

So Bill appears to be correct, the Admin CP > Statistics function is in fact adding moves in the correspondence chess forum to the total post count. I believe I also discovered why my previous experiment to verify this failed.

What is interesting though, is that if one subtracts the total number of posts in the correspondence chess forum from 9385, you arrive at 8756 which is the total claimed on the OzChess index homepage. This likely means that Kevin's calculations in the past short changed OzChess because the correspondence chess forum posts were being subtracted from the real post count.

Thank you,

AO

10-01-2008, 02:55 PM	#4 (permalink)
Just2Good Tin Cup Champ 2004 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Cairns Posts: 6,039 ICC Handle: Advantage FICS Handle: Advantage	News News News I have entitled this post News News News because I just discovered something! I don't know why I didn't do this before, but Bill's post prompted me to dig a little deeper. So I tallied, using the Admin CP, the total post count from July 07 when OzChess started through to 30 September 2008. The number, added manually by myself using a calculator was 9385. I did this twice and reached 9385 both times (for the sake of accuracy). So Bill appears to be correct, the Admin CP > Statistics function is in fact adding moves in the correspondence chess forum to the total post count. I believe I also discovered why my previous experiment to verify this failed. What is interesting though, is that if one subtracts the total number of posts in the correspondence chess forum from 9385, you arrive at 8756 which is the total claimed on the OzChess index homepage. This likely means that Kevin's calculations in the past short changed OzChess because the correspondence chess forum posts were being subtracted from the real post count. Thank you, AO __________________ . "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." ~ Buckminster Fuller ~