TWIC at 25: How Mark Crowther's brainchild changed the world of chess

This column kicked off on Sept. 18, 1993. Some 364 days later, it got a lot easier to write.

That's because the very first issue of "The Week in Chess" debuted Sept. 17, 1994, on a newsgroup known as rec. games. chess. Mark Crowther, a librarian information scientist at Britain's ...