Thanks for that!
During the last three days, ChessVibes.com has been unreachable for a total period of approximately seven hours. According to our hosting provider, at several points their server couldn't handle the CPU load anymore. We would like to apologize for the fact that we were down for such a long time. After some analysis, we've come to the conclusion that it was you, our audience, who caused the damage. The Corus Chess Tournament by itself generates about six times as many visitors as we had in early January, but both Bobby Fischer's death and the Short-Cheparinov Soap on top of that, resulted in an enormous peak, which was too much for the shared server we were using. A killing success - and we'd like to thank you for that!As from yesterday afternoon, ChessVibes is running on a dedicated server. We have the feeling it's now responding considerably stronger, and it should be able to handle our growing chess audience.
Peter Doggers joined a chess club a month before turning 15 and still plays for it. He used to be an active tournament player and holds two IM norms. Peter has a Master of Arts degree in Dutch Language & Literature. He briefly worked at New in Chess, then as a Dutch teacher and then in a project for improving safety and security in Amsterdam schools. Between 2007 and 2013 Peter was running ChessVibes, a major source for chess news and videos acquired by Chess.com in October 2013. As our Director News & Events, Peter writes many of our news reports. In the summer of 2022, The Guardian’s Leonard Barden described him as “widely regarded as the world’s best chess journalist.”
Peter's first book The Chess Revolution is out now!
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