he seems to be a key figure in early chess.com. why'd he get banned
He wasn't banned but closed his own account.
https://www.chess.com/member/minichess
https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/where-is-master-bill-wall#comment-98154313
I am here almost everyday. I changed my handle from billwall to minichess several years ago due to being a little bit more anonymous. I still contribute here with lessons, helping others, contributing short miniature games games, playing a few blitz games, etc. I have never been banned here and am one of the first players on this site. Now retired after 50 years of military service and government contractor work (L3Harris), I spend a lot of my spare time writing chess books and coaching chess locally. I have written 64 books so far, all available at Amazon. I just finished 600 Petroff Miniatures and working on 500 Budapest Gambit games.
I am here almost everyday. I changed my handle from billwall to minichess several years ago due to being a little bit more anonymous. I still contribute here with lessons, helping others, contributing short miniature games games, playing a few blitz games, etc. I have never been banned here and am one of the first players on this site. Now retired after 50 years of military service and government contractor work (L3Harris), I spend a lot of my spare time writing chess books and coaching chess locally. I have written 64 books so far, all available at Amazon. I just finished 600 Petroff Miniatures and working on 500 Budapest Gambit games.
billwall's chess page site.
I don't know if you are aware of that, or changed the url?
my website is at Bill Wall's Chess Page (billwallchess.com)
Not sure if my website will be there that long. My webmaster, Thomas Katsampes, is no longer available to support it.
Nice that one works.
I seem to have had a slightly different url (clone?) that wasn't working past few months which looks exactly like the one you linked.
Bill your website was such a huge resource. I am sad it is gone.
My old webmaster left and could no longer be supported. The pgn games are no longer available to download. I have made a new website at Bill Wall Chess Archive and trying to add more to it. Spending more time writing my chess books, all available at Amazon.
Bill Wall (minichess)
he seems to be a key figure in early chess.com. why'd he get banned