Chess Today is celebrating its first birthday!
CT-365, 7th November 2001

 
Alexander Baburin: Time really does fly - a year passed very quickly and all of a sudden we have a small case for celebration as our paper is one year old today. But perhaps this is not such a small reason to celebrate - if you consider what happened in that year.
One year ago dot-com ventures were flying high and I sometimes thought that perhaps I should be thinking big, dreaming up some colossal chess portal or something of that kind. But instead I wanted to start an electronic chess paper, which would provide a service to chess fans every day - news, games, stories, puzzles... Nothing glossy and certainly no IOP on NASDAQ was planned! Chess Today had no sponsor's money to burn and I hoped that the paper would make money by charging a subscription fee. While this is still not a very popular concept on the Net (well, it is very popular among content-providers!), it worked and I was able to run the paper without making my kids hungry. Meanwhile Boo.com and Lastminute.com bit the dust, Amazon is still struggling to show any profit - but CT is alive and well. I would like to thank our readers for that - at Chess Today we are happy to have such a loyal audience!
Vladimir Barsky: Believe it or not, our issue today is number 365, exactly the same as the new TWIC (don't forget to take a look at it). And from now on we will be ahead, because we'll prepare CT-366 tomorrow while Mark Crowther makes TWIC-366 only next week! :-)
Mikhail Golubev: In my view, Chess Today is the first really professional project in the electronic chess journalism. I wish a lot of success to CT team and to Alex personally. He goes in the correct direction.

Chess Today 365 PDF file (7.11.2001)
Chess Today Ukrainian Championship Report: CT-316 PDF file (19.9.2001)
Chess Today Annotated Games and sample issue CT-155 (12.5.2001)
Alexander Baburin's interview with Ruslan Ponomariov (18.11.2000)
Launch of Two New Chess Web Sites (7.11.2000)
 
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