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We have created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the World Chess Championship website.This site contains links to other sites. The World Chess Championship is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites.
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Some of our pages track incoming addresses and external sites which refer to our own pages. Our index page tracks the search terms which are used by the major search engines and directories to list our site. We use this data to determine which material is most interesting to our visitors.
Starting April 2009, Google AdSense launched 'interest-based advertising', which is driven by data collection of non-personally identifying information. Google suggested the following language for Adsense publishers. Adsense is the service that delivers the advertising banners at the top of our pages:-
We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, see Google's page on Advertising and Privacy.In 2023, Google announced,
Beginning 16 January 2024, publishers and developers using Google AdSense will be required to use a Consent Management Platform (CMP) that has been certified by Google and has integrated with the IAB's Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) when serving ads to users in the EEA or the UK.For more about the impact of the announcement on this web site, see CFAA's CMP : Wrapup (September 2023). If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this web site, or your dealings with the site, you can contact:-
Mark Weeks wcc@mark-weeks.com
All pages link back to the index. The Kings's crown icon at the top of each page also links to the index.
The index (three pages) links to crosstables for all events. 
All events have a crosstable which summarizes the results for the event.
A crosstable links to highlights and PGN files for the event. . 
Crosstables are linked together in chronological order.. 
The highlights have positions from games of the event and perhaps some background about the event. Highlights link back to the crosstable for the event.
The highlights also have their own index page. .
Highlights are linked together in chronological order.. 
The games are in PGN (Portable Game Notation) format and are compressed using ZIP. A PGN file is a text file in algebraic chess notation which can be read without special software.
The PGN files also have their own index page .
The links between the games
The highlights page for an event covers the action for that event.A highlights page contains interesting positions from key games played during the corresponding event. A game on a highlights page can be linked to our bibliography page with a star .
Three star games
When a game earns three stars, it is referenced on our best games page. The moves of the best games can be viewed online using the Internet Chess Club's game viewer. This requires that your browser be Java script enabled.
Best games are linked together in chronological order.. Other pages on the site
Roster of players Alphabetical list of all players who have participated in a World Chess Championship event, with links to the event(s) in which they participated Women champions Events which have determined Women World Chess Champions. Other World Champions Lists of Correspondence and Junior World Chess Champions. There is no information about the events other than the winner. Computers World Computer Chess Champions (WCCC) and World Microcomputer Chess Champions (WMCCC). Crosstables are available for many events. Thanks to Reciprocal links and acknowledgements for source material. Great rivalries Running battles between title contenders. Gadgets Chess directories, chess rings, and a lot more chess material not specifically related to the World Chess Championship subject. A springboard for exploring chess on the Web. Chess gifts Chess related products sold by e-commerce companies with which the World Chess Championship site has an affiliation.
This site has been in the making since May 1997. We were looking for information on the Web related to one of the 1960's Candidates matches and couldn't find anything. We decided to gather as many World Chess Championship games as we could find and make them available ourselves.
While we were collecting the game sources, we were surprised how many errors there were in the material which was already available on the Internet. We remove errors as we find them but it is an ongoing process.
The PGN files were loaded onto the Compuserve server in August 1997. The HTML crosstables were loaded at the same time and were built directly from the PGN headers using simple software which we developed ourselves. This helped us to remove many inconsistencies from the PGN files. The site was moved to Verio in October 1999.
Since the first files were loaded, we've added bits and pieces about the various events, time being our main constraint. The World Chess Championship is a broad subject and we doubt that we will ever really finish the site.
We have a large backlog of unpublished material which we polish and release from time to time. Most of our background material is original, and where we've extracted from other sources, we've so noted. If there is any violation of copyright, we'll remove the offending material immediately.
We think the Web, which allows anyone in the world to see our material, is an amazing technology. We thank you for your kind remarks and positive feedback -- it is the main reason which keeps us going!
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