Acknowledgements

Even if this site is essentially a "one man project", there are many people that contributed in different ways. The following list of contributors is sorted alphabetically. I can only express my gratitude with a very big THANK YOU!

Kelvin D. Copeland and his wife

They delivered feedback concerning the Grand Prix system. Furthermore they reminded me of the "two players, one computer" problem.

chrisray

His constructive criticism with regard to the navigation, the login process and many other points helped improve the site substantially.

Jeroen van Dorp

Jeroen is the author of several articles published here. Our discussions by email and ICQ-chat have been invaluable. His chess website Tacky Patzer Chess is one of the most entertaining chess sites on the web.

Jens Puhle

He delivered very precise and some conceptual ideas. Furthermore, he provided the images of the chess pieces used for the games. Are you interested in China, or do you even plan to travel there? His China page is worth a visit!

R. Milner

His feedback on the naming of the leagues and his problem report helped a lot.

Cade Plazinich

He contributed many test reports, especially relating to WebTV. His "hey, that's great" comments were very encouraging.

Pedro de Pradines

He contibuted in many different ways.

First, he is the "only executive officer" (his words) of the excellent site www.GoCritique.com. The critics from the visitors of that site (for ChessWorld) helped to avoid many errors from the start.

Second, more private discussions helped to improve the design of the site.

Third, his excellent newsletter The 4Site Journal inspired many ideas on design and navigation.

Roman Schechtel

His solution for the little menus on many pages is simple and good. Much better than my original method. You may visit him at www.schechtel.de.

Claudia Stahl

My wife helped in many ways. Most important, her "silent approval" of all those nights at the computer made the development of this site possible. But she contributed even more directly: She is responsible for many aspects of the usability and "friendliness" of this site.

David Steer

His corrections of the texts on the playchess pages much contributed to the comprehensibility of the site.

Eduardo de Suastegui

He wrote the fantastic Java applet for viewing the games played at this site.

Graham White

Graham is a professional proofreader. Through his corrections some sentences have a "close similarity" with English. All the "Germish" stuff stems from me.

You can visit his website, the Southbourne Chess Club.
I like these very nice chess puzzles!

David Whiteland

He wrote the basic machine for playing web-based email chess games. Parts of his BeholderBoard Virtual Chess-set are still the "kernel" of the PlayChess tournament machine.