Soltis's Sites
First we had Down Memory Lane with Andy Soltis, in the March 2015 Chess Life. Then we had JP/Moon/Fischer, based on Archive.org. Now we'll have GM Soltis continuing,
You probably know the names of some of the departed: Chessville, Chess21, The Chess Oracle, Chess Dominion, Chess Chronicle, Chess Check, Wolffchess, Worldchessrating. and both Chessplanet.com and Planetchess.com.
Are those sites really 'departed'? Let's ask Archive.org for help once more.
- chessville.com: Saved 418 times between June 2, 2002 and February 14, 2015.
- chess21.com: Saved 296 times between March 27, 2002 and February 2, 2011.
- thechessoracle.com: Saved 95 times between August 23, 2000 and December 22, 2014.
- library.advanced.org/10746:, aka Chess Dominion; Saved 89 times between January 16, 1999 and September 8, 2012.
- chesschronicle.com: Saved 12 times between August 8, 2004 and December 16, 2014. ???
- chesscheck.com: Saved 8 times between December 6, 2009 and December 16, 2014. Ditto
- wolffchess.com: 'Page cannot be crawled or displayed due to robots.txt.'
- worldchessrating.com: Saved 63 times between September 10, 2002 and February 10, 2015.
- chessplanet.com: Saved 9 times between December 5, 1999 and December 17, 2014.
- planetchess.com: Saved 39 times between December 20, 1996 and December 18, 2014.
Nine out of ten isn't too shabby. But wait, there's more: What's happened to Wolffchess.com?; '(7 years ago) We have ALL of Wolffchess.com's content on Chess.com in ...' That makes ten out of ten. All present and accounted for, Andy!
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