Site review - La storia, personaggi e biblio

[Christian Joachim Hartmann]

Thanks for your review, this and all the others!

On 01 Jul 2000, Mark Weeks <10004...@compuserve.com> wrote in article
<8jkm6j$um3$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>:

>The next review, continuing the second pass through the Chess History
>bookmarks, is for 'La storia, personaggi e biblio' by Marco A. Alberti.
...
>The Alberti site is at address...
>
>http://www.queen.it/web4you/noprofit/keres/storia.html

It might be worth pointing out that the "storia" pages
are only a subdivision of the "PICCOLA GUIDA AGLI
SCACCHI SU INTERNET"-Homepage
<http://www.queen.it/web4you/noprofit/keres/p_keres.html>

[...]
>Are there other Web sites that cover this period of chess history? I
>used SurfWax at www.surfwax.com to search on 'Paolo Boi'. Not many
> relevant pages popped out, but I did find:-
>
>http://leoncini.freeservers.com/boi.html (Italian)
><http://friuli.qnet.it/scacchi/manuale/storia.htm> (Italian; another
> history site)
>http://aurora.eexi.gr/~ippotis/proten.html

I've also happened on this friuli.qnet.it site, and I'd like to
propose this site to be added to our Chess History Bookmarks.

The link to the main page is <http://friuli.qnet.it/scacchi/>,
but the link you provided above is the most interesting page for us --
the index to the history section.

This site rather matches your description of "...outlines the
evolution of chess from its ancient origins to the Kasparov era.
Most of the >material is well known to amateur chess historians ..."

Yes, it's that kind of site, but even though the scope may be modest,
I think it is work linking. For one, the site it is nicely made
an agreeable to read. Second, although no in-depth informaton is
provided, it is certainly interesting as a solid introduction
for those who haven't yet read any *book* on chess history (provided
they can read Italian). Third -- any my main reason for liking this
site -- it contains some nice images, most notably a small pic
of the famed Venafro chess pieces:
<http://friuli.qnet.it/scacchi/manuale/storiave.jpg> ^___^

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** Christian Joachim Hartmann
** luk...@Null.net

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[Mark Weeks]

In article <8mjkk9$4fj$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,

Christian Joachim Hartmann <luk...@Null.net> wrote:
> Thanks for your review, this and all the others!

Thanks for the response! It's been very quiet lately.

> I've also happened on this friuli.qnet.it site, and I'd like to
> propose this site to be added to our Chess History Bookmarks.

Done.

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Cheers,
Mark

[althus]

> Third -- any my main reason for liking this
> site -- it contains some nice images, most notably a small pic
> of the famed Venafro chess pieces:

Interestingly enough, they get a mention in the latest Atlantic.

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/09/murphy.htm