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You probably know that at the bottom of our main news page there are buttons that take you one page forward or back, or to the newest or oldest pages.
If you click on the "Last Page" button you will be taken to the very first report filed on our new database driven news service. We had been providing World Wide Web news coverage since 1996, but with statically uploaded HTML files (you can see a lot of the reports in the Wayback Machine archives). But after months of development we were, in September 2001, ready to switch to the new system – initially parallel to the old one. The launch was scheduled for September 12, 2001. Below is the first report, front page blurb and all. Note that the pictures we had included from the 1995 World Championship were scanned from prints – photos we had taken before the advent of digial cameras.
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In 1995 the PCA world championship, sponsored by Intel, was held between Garry Kasparov and Vishy Anand, ranked first and second in the world. The prize fund was 1.500.000 US$, with 2/3 for the winner. Here are some pictures I took of the event, which was staged on the Observation Deck at the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, 400 meters above New York City's financial center Wall Street.
Crossing from New Jersey to New York on the Staten Island Ferry
Kasparov pondering a move on the 107th story of the World Trade Center
Audience watching the moves of game 16
GM Yasser Seirawan explaining the position in the VIP room
Following chess moves on the observation deck
Garry Kasparov ponders a move in the glass cabin built for the players.
Thomas Friedel feeling a bit queasy while looking down on Manhattan...
...from the very top of the World Trade Center
Looking back from the ferry to New Jersey after the games.
Here's
a moving tribute...
(The video has unfortunately been removed)
Frederic Friedel
