The Week in Chess

The Week in Chess ( TWIC abbreviated ) is a Since 1994, periodic electronic publication that provides information on chess news.

For the chess -related online journalism The Week in Chess possessed, published by the British chess expert Mark Crowther, a pioneer function. The original form was a weekly posting a message within a newsgroup. " TWIC 1" appeared in the Usenet Group rec.games.chess on 17 September 1994. Later TWIC was published on Crowther's private website and 1998, eventually moving to the address chesscenter.com.

The coverage extends to news, tournament results, and ( partially annotated ) games in PGN format. Within a short time it was TWIC as an internationally leading source on the Internet in the field of chess news. Crowther benefited from this is that many volunteers helped to provide him with results of chess tournaments and other news.

Despite the growing number of chess sites The Week in Chess will continue a recognized position as a reliable news medium. TWIC today in the form of a weekly newsletter. For important chess events, the site is updated daily ( it also contains a review section removed ). For users TWIC is free of charge. It was financed by advertisements and the sale of books and software of the company " London Chess Centre ". Since the revenue fell short of expectations, Crowther was the end of August, 2012 that the support of TWIC by the London Chess Centre is terminated.