There are a few chess sites on the web we scan regularly for news and information. Mark Crowther’s The Week In Chess is one of them.
Mark’s story is a case study in achievement. He started out, back in the dark ages before the Web, with the determination to become a chess journalist. So he began emailing a weekly newsletter, The Week In Chess, to chess discussion lists and posting it on the USENET newsgroup rec.games.chess (back in those days, my children, there was only one chess newsgroup).
Mark persevered through the years, and his dedication paid off. He became what he set out to be, a chess journalist. His site remains one of the first sites we turn to when we’re looking for information on events in the world of chess.
A highly recommended feature of his site are the book reviews by John Watson; our only complaint about them is they appear all too infrequently. TWIC also carries regular reports from John Henderson, chess columnist for The Scotsman, on European chess events.