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ChessCafe.com (1996)
Now with 40% more bandwidth.
- Cost
- 4 RAM
- Power
- 7
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Tech
- Era
- Boom (1995 to 1998)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: A random card in your hand costs 1 less.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 4 RAM to play and brings 7 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Tech cards bend the rules: more RAM, cheaper cards and patches that weaken the other side.
The site, in 1996
A chess website founded in 1996 by Hanon Russell that published endgame studies, book reviews and other articles every week.
About twenty monthly columns, by writers including Yasser Seirawan, Susan Polgar and Mark Dvoretsky. It stopped publishing new columns in May 2015, and is now dormant.
Boom era, 1995 to 1998. Netscape, frames, hit counters and animated envelopes. Everyone had a homepage, and every homepage was under construction.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1996 page.
Put it on your site
Run ChessCafe.com, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1996. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1996, then plays a short scene. Want ChessCafe.com in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
