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Welcome new visitors

29 January 2007 8:55 PM | Last modified: 22:31

Thanks to the Corus Chess Tournament this site is enjoying a major success. The videos we have been making, were appreciated a lot - especially the press conferences. Since literally thousands of new visitors have come to the Chessvibes website during Corus, we hereby warmly welcome these new visitors. And at the same time, in this short article you’ll find an answer to the question: what kind of site is this??

This is a weblog and web site together, and it’s about chess. Our goal is to provide interesting articles about chess news, as well as background stories and columns.

It all started on February 6th, 2006, when the editor-in-chief started a blog for publishing and discussing chess games. Within a year, the site grew into a chess hot spot where every day one thousand unique visitors found articles of a wide variety, but all about chess. The Corus Chess Tournament then made the site world famous, thanks to the many videos we’re publishing, raising the visitors number to thousands and thousands.

The Chessvibes team also grew the last few months, and amongst the editors we now have the GM’s Erwin l’Ami and Karsten Müller and the IM’s Merijn van Delft and Yochanan Afek.

In the annual survey you can read what Chessvibes has done so far. For example, also before the Corus Chess Tournament we published lots of videos online. A neat way to find these, is via the archives, under the header Videos. But you also use the search box in the yellow column, of course.

To conclude this article, we hereby take the opportunity to thank all our visitors. We really appreciate the hundreds of positive comments we received. We also thank Corus. They made everything possible and allowed us to film wherever we wanted.

We realize there’s no way back :) and we’ll certainly continue with making chess news articles and some video’s here and there. We hope you will keep on enjoying Chessvibes!

(By the way, check out the upcoming article. Something to do with Anatoly Karpov.)

Written by peter | Filed under This site 

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9 Responses to “Welcome new visitors”

  1. Alberto on 29 January 2007 10:58 PM

    Is possible to download videos ?
    Why don’t u make some cd ?
    maybe a buisness !

    ciao
    Alberto

  2. Philip on 30 January 2007 12:30 AM

    First of all, congratulations too the entire Chessvibesteam for their excellent performance on the covering of the Corus Chess festival.
    The original and frequently updated articles were a pleasure to read, not to mention your ‘topproduct’;) , Peter’s great videos.
    As one of those new and now daily visitors it’s my hope and trust this Chessvibesteam will continue their masterpiece next month during the Linarestournament.

  3. Joaquin Font on 30 January 2007 4:44 AM

    Thank you so much for your coverage. It has been very inspiring, really bringing the game to life in a new way
    for me.

    I have a suggestion, which is to use a shotgun or directional
    mike when interviewing, for better audio quality.

    Thanks again, Joaquín Fontt

  4. Pal on 30 January 2007 4:45 AM

    you can download the movies.

    click on the movie while it’s playing here at chessvibes, which should take you to the movie at youtube.com. then, copy the URL of the movie and paste the URL into the box on this page.

    http://www.videodl.org/

    then download the movie to your harddrive. the movie will be in .FLV format, but there are quite a view players for this file format now.

    cheers.

    ps - thanks for ALL the movies, chessvibes. keep it up please. we have no chess coverage here in the US.

  5. Thijs on 30 January 2007 10:22 AM

    Is Linares within a few weeks also covered with videoconferences, or is that to much. It was very good stuff, made me a almost a master :) Thanks.

  6. peter on 30 January 2007 10:47 AM

    A lot of people have already asked me this question: will you be doing video coverage of Linares? The answer so far is, unfortunately, no, because I cannot really leave my day job in that period. (Although I’m not sure about that.) And… so far nobody has offered me to pay for my flight ;-)

    So if someone can help me with this in some way, financially or otherwise, let me know!

  7. Thijs on 30 January 2007 5:51 PM

    Perhaps it will be possible to look for any coeditors (with chess knowledge) abroad to fulfill this job. The site now has many visitors from all over the world, maybe there will be some people in generous mood :)

    It’s just a suggestion.

  8. coffeemonster on 31 January 2007 8:28 AM

    Great site!

    Even better Karpov interview questions!

    The quality and depth of those questions betray the knowledge of these players. Either most of these players are at least master strength or they have been playing or following chess for at least 20 years.

    For myself, I have always wondered what Karpov had in mind when he once wanted to run FIDE.

  9. Tural on 13 February 2007 9:37 PM

    Radjabov is a young player.
    He will be next world champion.
    This tournament first place
    1.Topalov, Radjabov
    2.Aronian

    This is really score

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