Description
A webring that linked 196 hobbyist sites about chess, and the member sites that could still be recovered.
Provenance
Recovered from the last surviving backup after the original server was scrapped. Pages, images and files were captured; interactive features were documented with screenshots. All files were recovered; 53 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0fafde1b48ce4f3832d898bcd31e1af3cd949d914ad8974bd6201e1d46536852- Last verified
- Sep 27, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-WEB1-4 · lz-browser core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- None. Captured over the network.
Access
Free, in reading rooms only, under the Lazarus orphan works policy.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-WEB1-4, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on the web.
Cite as: Yara Ong, The Chess Ring (2002–2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-04862.