Getting Here
There are many chess information sites in the Blogoverse. How do mortals traverse from one to another? Some clues are offered in web referral (referral = the site you were on just before you visited my site) logs and search engine terms logs.
Here are today’s Referrers:
Today
All-Time Search Term Leaderboard
The top three searches to get to my site from its inception until now are:
- Kramnik
- Elizabeth Vicary
- Mark Ginsburg
And here’s today’s search terms:
Today
| Search | Views |
|---|---|
| kramnik | 3 |
| 1970s pictures | 2 |
| chess blockader widipedia | 2 |
| elizabeth vicary | 2 |
| “1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. c4” | 2 |
| sicilian basman-sale variation | 2 |
| photo elizabeth vicary | 2 |
| ginsburg chess | 1 |
| paul keres | 1 |
| aries backgammon | 1 |
| novality chess set | 1 |
| famous 1970’s historical photos | 1 |
| mark ginsburg | 1 |
| tal the chess player | 1 |
| “rook ending” “4 vs 3” | 1 |
| gorlin the pawn | 1 |
| chess life, the jacklyn brothers | 1 |
| mark ginsburg md | 1 |
| jeremy chess ny | 1 |
| john fedorowicz | 1 |
| import database in chessbase database | 1 |
| 70s clothing pictures | 1 |
| washington heights in the 80’s | 1 |
| diana lanni | 1 |
| gggg | 1 |
| classical king’s indian na6 “10 c5” | 1 |
| chess life , the jacklyn brothers | 1 |
| playboy maroc | 1 |
| lego patterns | 1 |
| undesirable guy bum | 1 |
| smith-morra computer | 1 |
| famous photo + ’70s | 1 |
| andrew lawrence drexel burnham | 1 |
| george monokroussos | 1 |
Unrelated News Item: The Evolution of This Site and My Chess.FM Sicilian Defense Opening Segments
As part of this chess history site’s exploding fame, I am being interviewed by prolific and controversy-ridden IM John Watson Friday July 11th for his Chess.FM show. This coincides with the release of some of my Sicilian Opening segment Chess.FM lecture shows. So far, with the help of production engineer Andy McFarland (“Zek”) I’ve covered Smith-Morra from the black side (taking into account IM Alex Lenderman’s previous Chess.FM shows) and also the 2. c3 Alapin Sicilian, also from the black side. The theme of the shows is demonstrating treatments for black that are sound and positionally well motivated.
In addition, if you visit my home page, you will see on the upper right a link to “Chess.FM Training Tips”. This link gives you some of my computer-aided analysis suggestions you can use to refine my Chess.FM suggestions, and you can use the relevant subsections on my site (for Smith-Morra, for 2. c3 Alapin, and so on) to communicate feedback and interesting games you may have played in these systems.
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IM Mark Ginsburg Presents A Personal Chess History 
July 11, 2008 at 12:28 am |
Oh Mark,
I am happy that an internet search for me brings people to you.
How karmically harmonious!
But maybe you should mention me more often?
GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!!!
ELIZABETHvicary
July 26, 2008 at 3:03 pm |
“But maybe you should mention me more often?
GIVE THE PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANT!!!
ELIZABETHvicary”
Hmm… Liz, I hate to break this to ya, but *mentioning* you isn’t, ah, QUITE what these guys seem to want…if you get my drift *wink wink, nudge nudge*