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19 July 2010: Closing down sale has ended. All sales pages removed from this site. Send no more orders please.
14 July 2010: Kibitzer column posted at the Chess Cafe, reviewing new books and announcing Tim's retirement from the business side of his chess activities.
14 July 2010: Added more games to the free additions and corrections PGN download database.
6 July 2010: Closing down sale. The directors of Chess Mail Ltd. have decided to cease trading by the end of July 2010 and to wind up our company after the closing down sale this month. This is to enable the directors to retire from business; the company does not owe money to any third party.
27 June 2010: Added a book review on Victorian sport in Westmeath (NOT chess).
10 June 2010: Added more games to the additions and corrections PGN database.
10 June 2010: More background information added to the pages about my late father's book Copper Wire.
9 June 2010: Updated information on Tim's next book, Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland 1824-1987 including an image of the cover design.
9 June 2010: Kibitzer column about Anand v Topalov.
23 May 2010: Added a free PGN download file of corrections and late additions to our database. This file will be updated from time to time. Today we give the correct score of a game from the 17th CC World Championship which was previously wrong due to an input error in the ICCF database. Plus a few games that we found since finalising UltraCorr 3A.
26 May 2010: Updated my bibliography and publications list.
12 May 2010: New Kibitzer article at the Chess Cafe about a new kind of cheating in correspondence chess. ICCF officials are now investigating...
5 May 2010: Table of contents and pictures to preview Tim Harding's forthcoming history book
25 April 2010: Recovered from an archive of our website: the origins of the Frankenstein-Dracula Variation in the Vienna Game, as unearthed by Tim Harding..
23 April 2010: Feature about GM Zukertort added. Some of this material was on the Chess Mail website a few years ago, but has now been updated and a new article by Tim Harding has been added, about Zukertort's visit to Dublin in 1879.
23 April 2010: Tim's personal site updated substantially with four new pages that will be developed further in future.
23 April 2010: Copper Wire pages updated: new photograph.
5 March 2010: Links and Copper Wire pages updated. Some updates to Tim Harding's home pages were also made, including the updating of the Kibitzer index table.
SOME OF THE UPDATES LAST YEAR:
3 October 2009: Added two annotated games by Janis Vitomskis to his obituary.
4 September 2009: New page: Where to play CC.
23 August 2009: New Irish CC-IM.
13 July 2009: Tim Harding's homepage updated with graduation photograph.
8 July 2009: Obituary of CC-GM Janis Vitomskis (Latvia).
8 April 2009: New chess book reviews posted in the Kibitzer series at the Chess Cafe.
14 March 2009: Article about the late Prof Carlo Alberto Pagni's researches into correspondence chess.
11 March 2009: Article about Erik Larsson posted in the Kibitzer series; various minor updates to this site.
22 February 2009: Death of ICCF pioneer Erik Larsson.
22 February 2009: ICCF President Samraoui resigns.
22 February 2009: Umansky website added to our links page.
7 February 2009: Various page updates, including links and the Kibitzer index page.
26 January 2009: New historical article posted: about an early American correspondence chess tournament.
14 January 2009: New Kibitzer article at the Chess Cafe.
8 January 2009: Chess Mail editor Tim Harding successfully defends his thesis on chess history and is recommended for the award of a Ph.D. later this year.
July 2007: Site transferred to a new host.
