"lost issues" of TWIC

The first 399 TWIC issues were distributed through the bartering of floppy disks at chess tournaments

I've got them, many thanks.

Really good of you to make the effort and I concur with NimzoRoy's sentiments in Post #20.

Most helpful. Thanks.

I used TWIC to update my Big Database from ChessBase for many years. With CB 11, however, I started using their automatic update feature instead. Then, they parted ways with Mark Crowther and that stoped working.

I fell a bit over a year behind in my updates of BD 2012. With the help of this thread, I have rectified that.

Hi,

You can try to recover all twic filers in the github :

https://github.com/rozim/ChessData/tree/master/Twic

210 - 993

Regards

Nicolas

So where do you click to get them?

If anyone is looking for any issues of TWIC PGN, please let me know, I managed to download all the issues, cept I'm missing some of the files (I'm looking for PGN for issues 90, 100, 131) and I'm always willing to help out (BTW: I think Mark didn't release issue 90), but I don't really know if Mark allows people giving away back issues of the magazine in PGN (I've also added ECO information to each game, this is before Mark started doing it himself). I'm currently working on a TWIC dataBase for those curious (and another version of the GriphBase). Anyhow, just putting in my 2 cents worth.

Yeah well, I wanna get his input, but I'm not offering the database for obvious reasons, I just want a reliable database, if Mark wants a copy of my work I'd be more then happy to send it to him. Someone has already offered the Twic dB, up to issue 965 as is., and their dB looks messy. So I had to re-do it.

Philip,

I only have TWIC 843-1051 and would really like to have the issues up to that point. I can only use PGN (not Chess Base). Can you help me? - Rick

I have links to TWIC 1-1026 (complete) on my website in both PGN and SCID formats.

http://gorgonian.weebly.com/pgn.html

pawpatrol, thanks very much - I got the pgn!

Thank you, pawpatrol.

I put the TWIC 1-1026 in SCID format on Google Drive read-only at https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B-NtPUkhZfJOfk9nUHkwa091WF9SZmF3YUNLRENvWVNFUnc1SU9lci13Y1FyeWw4ajd1dkU&usp=sharing 

Do anyone have TWIC 1-919 and is able to share a link to download pgn files?

time to dig this one up again.

does anybody have issues 1-209 and would be willing to share them? thanks in advance!

Make a small donation to TWIC and Mark Crowther will send you a complete set.

i don’t need the complete set, see my post again. cheers.

No idea on what's going on here.

The comment, made two yeas ago in a thread that is mostly more than nine years old, was general information for everyone looking to fill in gaps. It wasn’t posted specifically for you. I might have added that Mark Crowther incurs expenses making TWIC available and the donation keeps the resource available to all.

Of course, if you find someone willing to share the early issues through this thread, that’s useful too.

Lots of free chess stuff that was available a few years ago is no longer on the web. Do you remember Günther Ossimitz’s download page? Günther died 14 years ago. Bill Wall’s page came down about a year ago.

Everyman was not giving away free stuff, but they made ChessBase versions of many books extremely low priced. Jacob Aagaard bought the company and closed down that part of it. The low prices resulted in zero royalties for authors. Aagaard’s books were being sold with no proceeds going to him. I’d forgotten how many of these books I bought until I bought a new computer last week and started transferring files.

to clear up misunderstandings, i don’t have an issue supporting people who contribute to the chess community, on the contrary. in this case, the missing number of events does not justify purchasing essentially a dupe of my extant collection.

i had taken a break from building my own db from scratch for a few years, returned recently and was at the same roadblock once i had regathered many files after a disk crasch et al. - i even forgot i had posted in this thread prior to when i found it again through web search (chess.com has no tracking of one’s own posting history in the forums, so it exacerbates the issue). i have been using archive.org with good results to recover many sites and games.

that being said, there was actually a user on github who had posted the then-complete twic set starting with issue one, in cbv format. i recall downloading it but couldn’t find it anywhere on my drives. currently reverse engineering the games from the listings in crowther’s accompanying newsletters, so that should work as a fallback option.

and as if the machines were eavesdropping in on the convo - here is that very file upload i was talking about - twic issues from 1-210, in cbv format. i have reuploaded it on mediafire:
https://www.mediafire.com/download/181bpfdg01bu2pf/TWICde1a210.7z

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