dub3 card · www.theweekinchess.com
The Week in Chess (1994)
Buffering... 12%
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Media
- Era
- Pioneer (up to 1994)
- Collection
- The Long Tail
What it does
On reveal: +2 Power to the next card you play.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Media cards broadcast Power to your other lanes.
The site, in 1994
A chess news site edited by Mark Crowther, with the game scores from major events, based in the United Kingdom.
It began as a weekly Usenet post on rec.games.chess on 17 September 1994, and Crowther had a web page for it within weeks. He went full-time on it in 1996, and issue 1000 came out in January 2014.
Pioneer era, up to 1994. Grey pages, blue links and a browser called Mosaic. Images were optional. So was colour.
The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1994 page.
Put it on your site
Run The Week in Chess, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1994. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1994, then plays a short scene. Want The Week in Chess in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
