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After 23.75 years...

Post by Steven DuCharme » Mon Oct 18, 2021 5:06 pm

stansco.com will close permanently on 10/20/2021 :(
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Re: After 23.75 years...

Post by Joey Stewart » Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:05 pm

That must be the record for the longest running chess website -1998 to 2021. And I never heard of it at all until today.
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Re: After 23.75 years...

Post by carstenpedersen » Wed Oct 20, 2021 7:55 pm

Joey Stewart wrote:
Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:05 pm
That must be the record for the longest running chess website -1998 to 2021. And I never heard of it at all until today.
I suspect the record belongs to TWIC, which has just celebrated its 27th birthday. As far as I know without ever missing a week (it's on issue 1406), a remarkable achievement by Mark Crowther.

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Re: After 23.75 years...

Post by Richard Thursby » Wed Oct 20, 2021 11:56 pm

ChessBase dates from at least 1996, see references here https://en.chessbase.com/post/twenty-years-ago

TWIC hasn't been quite every week: 1406 weeks ago only lands in November 1994, rather than September (according to a computer, I haven't calculated it manually). In the article on 1000 issues https://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/ge ... r-for-twic Mark Crowther mentions missing one issue in 1996.

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Re: After 23.75 years...

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Oct 21, 2021 8:42 am

Also TWIC has changed site
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