The Founding of TheEek.com
(written 14 September 2002)
First of all, I'd like to state a few things.
When this all began, I had no idea how much this would explode, nor the things that would occur. What I do know is I wouldn't trade this experience for anything in the world. It's been a major defining point in my life. I began my first "real" website on the Internet on April 1, 2000. The topic of this website was basically corruption on Internet Chess Servers (ICS), but in actuality it was focused on chess.net and the now infamous "Truong Scandal". It was hosted on http://www.theeek.com/ which does not exist anymore and also on freespeech.org. Truong and his lackeys managed to shut down several of my earlier sites due to "defamation" or "profane" claims made to the hosts of my websites. I am a strong believer in the free speech system and do NOT consider profane speech to be at all bad.
I had several visitors to my site (about 1100) which counted only unique visitors, by the time I shut it down because Truong was threatening to sue me for libel. As I was on a cross-country trip across America at the time, instead of ignoring him and leaving the site up, I chose to remove the site as I had sporadic access to the Internet during this time period. It is one of my greatest regrets, however I had to keep this website down because before I was allowed to play on USCL (http://www.uschesslive.org/) I was asked politely by the head admin to please not run the EEK anymore. I agreed and have kept my part of that agreement until now. I do not see the point of keeping those old files out of the general domicile anymore, especially since it's such an integral part of ICS history. I will be writing up a short summary of ICS History later on and the Truong Scandal was nothing short of a behemoth landmark in the historical canon of the chess servers' history. Several names associated with this case may well be familiar to the reader, as they were tantamount to the Scandal itself. Let us simply read on.
May 10, 1999:
In 1999, I was quite an experienced wild player at that point. I had defeated the strongest opposition that I could find on FICS. My record was pretty good. Then I heard about this guy on chess.net who was 2700+ lightning with a 1000-2-0 record. I also heard conflicting stories regarding how he accomplished this. Then I found out that this person with that astonishing record was Truong.
Thus began the Truong Scandal.
I had an account on chess.net (TheNinja), which I used to check Truong's ratings. Needless to say, they produced doubt in legitimacy. However I needed an account that would allow me to get on chess.net without a history associated with it and check out this guy that had such a devout following of cocksuckers. I also planned on figuring out if it really was *that* easy to abuse on chess.net or if Truong was just giving head or paying off the administration of chess.net, so I decided to register a new account. The ease of registering duplicate accounts was proved to be true on chess.net.
Thus WILDFIVE was born.
Later on in 1999 (TheNinja):
Losers on chess.net thought that I had to cheat to have a wild rating of 2600+ especially since I only had a blitz rating of 1600 or so. To make matters worse, I was owning a computer abuser as well in one game where he had a system error and began spouting error messages. The computer abuser proceeded to claim that I had to be a computer since I had crushed his computer. It was amusing but got old after a while. I proceeded to hang around chess.net a while and it was then that I met DragonSlayr who quickly became a friend of mine. I also proceeded to teach him wild, which he quickly picked up. In the old days, just as chess.net added crazyhouse, I was one of the top players there, especially since I had played crazyhouse on MEWIS for at least a year earlier. After gathering and publishing information and actually introducing the term of "eek" to the general populace, I garnered Internet Chess Server fame (notoriety). Truong continued to win over people as weak players will fall over themselves to be affiliated with a FIDE titled player. Just go to any ICS and you will see people falling over themselves to be the first to affix themselves to the titled player. After the term 'eek' began to be immensely popular on chess.net, Aardvark, sensing a uprising in order, began to limit or even ban the word of eek and its related derivatives. This finally culminated in the banning of TheNinja on May 16, 2000. Later on, I received an email from the chess.net "board" which threatened me with legal action and a lifetime ban from chess.net because my website had "damaged" them immeasurably. Needless to say, I found this amusing and kept running the site until Truong himself threatened me with legal action and growing tired of all those threats of legal action I decided to take the easy way out and took my site down.
2002:
The site lived again as wild5.org
2003:
The site changed to inveigh.org
2004:
Dead.
2005:
The site came back to life at xare.net
2006:
Still on xare.net
2007:
Dead.
2008:
Dead.
2009:
Restored with altered wording for most of my self-written files.