CCC archive no longer working?

[Juan P. Naar]

Seems to be down:
https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/

[Ajedrecista]

Hello Juan Pablo:

Seems to be down:
https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/

Yes, it is a tragedy on its own. Since your warning, I had checked the site once or twice per day, without success. The last archived copy is from February 1st, 2026:

https://web.archive.org/web/20260201141 ... z.com/ccc/

There are some SSL online checkers for the validity of certificates. I tried three of them, all agreeing that the certificate is valid from April 3rd, 2023 to March 31st, 2033:

http://www.sslchecker.com/sslchecker?su ... 48286b1b7d
https://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker. ... mintz.com/
https://app.trackssl.com/users/sign_up? ... ntz.com%2F

• The first SSL online checker says Vendor signed: No ← SSL is not trusted and Hostname: Doesn't Match.

• The second SSL online checker says There was an unknown error verifying the certificate: 18 (self-signed certificate) and None of the common names in the certificate match the name that was entered (www.stmintz.com). You may receive an error when accessing this site in a web browser.

• The third SSL online checker says Valid hostname: No.

It is the time of the CCC heroes to getting back the site again.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[smatovic]

[...]
It is the time of the CCC heroes to getting back the site again.
[...]

Haha, at least I won't engage a second time

http://www.stmintz.com/

Plain site, without the s in https, says that domain is parked, so the yearly subscription was probably not renewed, Idk.

--
Srdja

[Peter Berger]

Seems to be down:
https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/

I hope the current powers will work on getting the archive back and hopefully integrated into CCC.

[Ajedrecista]

Hello:

I missed to check the link for a few days and the situation has changed since my last time. Right now:

Not Found

The requested URL was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[Rebel]

I still have the complete posts in .txt format.

Ideas ?

[Rebel]

A raw sequential dump of the text file (about 900 Mb), first posts...

Subject: Chess System Tal
From: Chris Whittington
Date: September 22, 1997 at 09:07:51


The master went off for CD duplication last week, we expect it back
shortly and will be shipping the first units into Germany within a few
days. Then France, then Spain, then UK.

Sorry for the long wait

Chris


Subject: Paris WMCCC
From: Chris Whittington
Date: September 22, 1997 at 12:39:35

Who's going out to Paris of us lot ?

Shall we do dinner one evening (I think some days are morning games
only, with the rest of the day off) ?

Ed, which day(s) are you going to be there ?

Enrique ?

etc.

Chris



Subject: Re: Paris WMCCC
From: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: September 22, 1997 at 12:58:07
In Reply to: Paris WMCCC
Message ID: 10058
Posted by: Chris Whittington
On: September 22, 1997 at 12:39:35


On September 22, 1997 at 12:39:35, Chris Whittington wrote:

>Who's going out to Paris of us lot ?
>
>Shall we do dinner one evening (I think some days are morning games
>only, with the rest of the day off) ?
>
>Ed, which day(s) are you going to be there ?
>
>Enrique ?

I'll go to Paris for 2 or 3 days. To me it doesn't matter which days,
so I prefer to be there for this dinner. Day, please?

Enrique

[mclane]

Cool flashback. Paris was great.

The championship we had no internet, and people fall on the floor.
With Louwmanns in a private taxi who drove like hell arround the corners.
With my friend peter schreiner in one room. He operating mchess, me doing CSTal. With the boss.
Meeting christophe theron.