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2007-Q1

We added:-

• new pages for the 2007 Candidates Matches, Elista, the 2007 World Championship, Mexico City, the 2007 World Cup, Khanty-Mansiysk, and the 2008 World Championship (TBA),

We moved:-

• this news page to our World Chess Championship Blog. Please use that reference for future news about the site.

2006-Q4

No new pages!

2006-Q3

We added:-

• a new page for the 2006 Kramnik - Topalov unification match

2006-Q2

We added:-

• the 14th World Computer Chess Championship to Computer Chess.

2006-Q1

We added:-

• the 2006 FIDE Women's World Championship to Women's events.

We added:-

• a new page for the failed 2004-05 unification effort.
• a new page for the 2005 World Cup at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia.
• the 13th World Computer Chess Championship to Computer Chess.
• a new page covering the zonal tournaments.

2005-Q3

We added:-

• a page for the 2005 FIDE World Championship at San Luis, Argentina.

No updates!

We added:-

• the 16th ICCF Correspondence Championship to Correspondence Chess.
• Paolo Boi and Leonardo de Cutri to our tournament, match, and exhibition records;

No updates!

We added:-

• the 12th World Computer Chess Championship to Computer Chess.

We added:-

• pages for the FIDE and Danneman World Championships.
• the 2004 FIDE Women's World Championship, including Crosstables and Pairing chart to Women's events.

We added:-

• the 11th World Computer Chess Championship to Computer Chess.

No updates! Is the World Chess Championship dead?

We added:-

• crosstables for the 1986, 1987, 1988, and 1989 World Microcomputer Championships to Computer Chess.

We added:-

• crosstables for the 1956, 1958, and 1959 title matches to Women's events.

We added:-

• links to About.com and closed our email list.
• the 15th ICCF Correspondence Championship to Correspondence Chess.

We added:-

• the 10th World Computer Chess Championship to Computer Chess.
• crosstables for the
  • 1950 title tournament,
  • Candidate Tournaments between 1952 and 1967 (6 events), and
  • Interzonals between 1971 and 1985 (10 events)
  to Women's events.

We added:-

• a page for the Dortmund Candidates tournament (non-FIDE);
• site translation powered by Google.com language tools; and
• a page for the Prague Unity Plan.

We added:-

• Deschapelles and Ponomariov to our tournament, match, and exhibition records;
• game scores for the women's 1971, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1980-81and 1983-84 Candidates matches; and the 1990 Azov Interzonals.
• background material on the events of 2001.

We added several pages for the FIDE world championship events, summarized in the following table:-

We also added:-

• statistics and openings for 1872-86 Steinitz - Zukertort to Great Rivalries;
• annotations for 1894 Lasker - Steinitz game 7 to three star games;
• crosstables and PGN game scores for ICCF correspondence championships;
• crosstables (without game scores) for the
  • 1971, 1974-75, 1977-78, 1980-81and 1983-84 Candidates matches;
  • 1986 Malmo and 1988 Chaltubo Candidates tournaments;
  • 1987 Smederevska Palanka and 1990 Azov Interzonals.
  to Women's events;
• an index to women's events by player.

We added:-

• a portrait of Labourdonnais to our tournament, match, and exhibition records;
• Braingames' plans for their world championship.
• a statistics page covering Interzonals, PCA Qualifiers, Candidate events, World championship events, and FIDE Knockout events.
• the 18th World Microcomputer Chess Championship to Computer Chess.

We moved our Chess History on the Web email list to the Yahoo Chess History group.

We added:-

• FIDE's plans for the next world championship;
• Karpov's (1985-) tournament, match, and exhibition record as a Chess History on the Web feature;
• the 1987 Tuzla Interzonal, the 1990 Genting Interzonal, the 1990 Borzomi Candidates Tournament, and the 1991 Xie Jun - Maric Candidates match, to Women's events;
• statistics and openings for 1834 Labourdonnais - McDonnell, 1974-81 Karpov - Korchnoi, and 1984-90 Kasparov - Karpov to Great Rivalries;
• the 1851 London Tournament, to Highlights; and

we restored our guest book, which had been out of service for more than six months.

We added:-

• Anand's and Karpov's (1960-1984) tournament, match, and exhibition records as Chess History on the Web features;
• a page linking to all of our tournament, match, and exhibition records;
• the 10th, 11th, and 17th World Microcomputer Chess Championships to Computer Chess; and
• World Junior Champions (Women) and Senior Champions (Men and Women) to Other Champions (Restricted events).

The big news was from the world championship events. The several pages we added to the site are summarized in the following table.

We also

• consolidated information related to our email list onto a single page and
• added a page for the most important missing material.