![]() "I find out where the results are going to be, I find out the dates and times of all the rounds, feed that into a computer and then I transfer them to the web," he explains. ![]() TWIC is not just a collection of games it's the processing that Crowther does that has added value. "I never go to bed on a Monday without finishing TWIC," Crowther said. Apart from a few times in the early years, he hasn't missed a single week. These days they come out on Monday nights, without exception. Since September 17, 1994, Crowther has posted almost 1,300 issues-that round number will be out in three weeks. It was an early example of chess and the internet being made for each other. "I never go to bed on a Monday without finishing TWIC. He is always in for a chat on Skype, and a few days before the interview he said he was "looking forward to it." It characterizes the cheerful personality of the man who single-handedly changed the chess world a quarter of a century back, when he started publishing his weekly chess magazine The Week In Chess (TWIC). Mark Crowther, the publisher of the site, is from Clayton, a suburb of Bradford in northern England. The first issue was published 25 years ago today. ![]() The Week In Chess is a household name in the chess world and still the place to find the latest chess games, altogether and nicely sorted, for download.
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