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this has all the world championship cycle information

http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc-indx.htm

 

who is this guy?

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Mr. Week's site does have pgns of the games.

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It's designed for information, not for interactivity. Mr. Weeks has been offering chess information long before a deluge of data became instantly available on the net.

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A long time ago, I'm guessing in the late 1990s, there were few chess sites and few information sites... no chessgames.com, no wikipedia, no Google... very little of anythng compared to today.  Mr B.M. Weeks conducted a sort of symposium called Chess History on the Web (later he became the Chess Guide at About.com, one of the earliest proliferators of chess knowledge on the web and a pioneer of chess blogging).  I had been pouring myself into chess history for a couple years by then, but was lightyears behind the people taking part in those discussions, most of whom are known in chess history circles as published writers, researchers, etc.  I mostly lurked and asked occasional questions as I knew history is less about facts than about understanding.  The symposium eventually shut down since, although heavily moderated by Mr. Weeks, everything tended to devolve into embarrassing one-upmanship and name-calling.   I learned that academia isn't much different than school-yards.  But also learned a lot of good things. 

Nowadays, everyone is an instant expert who consults wiki for immediate facts but few of these experts have real understanding.  I learned the value of patience and understanding from Mark Weeks.

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batgirl wrote:

Nowadays, everyone is an instant expert who consults wiki for immediate facts but few of these experts have real understanding.  I learned the value of patience and understanding from Mark Weeks.

Which is why your blog posts are essential reading. Thanks!