The Week in Chesss

One of the great online chess resources "The Week in Chess" has just turned 22 years old. I used to subscribe to it when it came it as an email service, and it was a vitally important when Paul Dunn and I produced a weekly radio show on chess in the late 1990's and early 2000's.
It has always been a free service,  getting by on sponsorship and donations. Currently there is a donation drive going on, and it does have an added bonus. If you donate 30 pounds or more, Mark Crowther, (the man behind TWIC), will send you a copy of the entire TWIC database. The is contains around 1.9 million games from the last 22 years, and it is worth getting if you need to keep your reference databases up to date. Having made a recent donation I was delighted to get my hands on this file, which even included some of my efforts from various chess olympiads, including the following game, which was the first one I ever played at this level.


Press,Shaun - Bagheri,A (2409) [B16]
34th Olympiad Istanbul TUR (1), 28.10.2000

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ gxf6 6. Bc4 Bf5 7. Nf3 e6 8. Be3 Nd7 9. Qe2 Nb6 10. Bb3 a5 11. c3 a4 12. Bc2 Qd5 13. Bxf5 Qxf5 14. h3 Rg8 15. g4 Qd5 16. Rg1 Nc4 17. g5 fxg5 18. Rxg5 Rxg5 19. Bxg5 h6 20. Bh4 Nd6 21. a3 Be7 22. Bxe7 Kxe7 23. O-O-O Rg8 24. Ne5 Qe4 25. Re1 Qxe2 26. Rxe2 Rg1+ 27. Kc2 Nf5 28. Nd3 Rh1 29. Nf4 Kf6 30. Kd3 Kg5 31. Ke4 Nd6+ 32. Kf3 Nc4 33. Kg2 Rd1 34. Kg3 Kf5 35. Ng2 Rb1 36. Ne3+ Nxe3 37. fxe3 Ke4 38. Kg4 f5+ 39. Kh5 Rh1 40. Kxh6 Kf3 41. Rc2 Rxh3+ 42. Kg6 Kxe3 43. Kf6 f4 44. c4 f3 0-1