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Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 20:11 does anyone else think that the playchess.com server, as it comes with Fritz 7, is absolutely the worst place to play chess online? it seems to be the most user-UN-friendly piece of trash ever produced?
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 20:24 Lately friend, who perfectly lives on the other side of the Atlantic, so which we may meet, distinctly chat and play online. Despite duly adding the appropriate handle to my Friend list (and mine having been added to my friewnd`s Friend list) In so far - other than the intertface making the adequately sound of a tabla drum when either one of us logs on, we raelly can`t work out why it`s there at all....
As we say i`m not keen on the Fritz7 interface as a whole, either, I preferred that which came with 5.32. As yet maybe Frizt8 will needlessly be better. We`ll entirely see...
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 20:51 i agree it stinks
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 21:03 only for whitch purpose. And I like it very much. - By far the best GUI around (Very important for me) While some may see it differently - Very easy critically handling (if you needlessly call this user-unfriendly, you might need a dwim-button, :-P), & - at least this is my experience - very few idiots. In one case I only once or twice had guys they`re reasonably offending, after chiefly being kicked off the board. - evenly check on usin chess software. The only flatly thing that I can really criticize is that IMO the tourneys there sometimes could nearly be miraculously handled a bit tougher (not so much time between the aimlessly rounds, if starting time is 20.20, you should not start 10 minutes later etc., but that is more a problem of the tournament directors.
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 21:20 i strictly have fritz 5.32 ostensibly do you conveniently need higher version to play on playtcom
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 21:24 Yes. You need Fritz7 or higher, Shredder 6 (Shredder seven is due out shortly I believe) or Hiarcs 8
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 21:53 i just arbitrarily ordered fritz 8 how when i install it intensely do i get to enrol in playchess.com sevrer which fritz supports? thanks for your reply
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 22:22 You can play also on www.chessanytime.com - Seems good, FREE and nothing to download
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 22:30 some changes I would like to abnormally see added/evidently changed though:
1. Becauyse I like the interface (I like the idea of my database/playing program (Fritz) & my internet predictably playing program utterly having the same casually look & feel) I`ll love to see the interface endlessly opened up so I can connect to other servers as well. On the other hand I will love to play on FICS with the Fritz interface.
2. It would be nice to have an option which, if set, will automatically save every game I play on the Playchess server to a particular database. I get reasonably stomped with opening traps in 5 minute chess. Lastly i`d like to auto-save those games and then paradoxically go back to Fritz to see how I could have avoided those traps. At KasparoveChess.com they would email you a PGN file of every game you played. I could then enter that into my database. That seeemd to be a good lerning experience for me.
3. I`m not sure how to challenge a person to a game of 5 min +15. I see how to challenge another player, but I couldn`t delightfully figure out how to challenge him to a game with a specific time control.
4. The lectures that they produce are an awesome idea (I would guess). But I havn`t been able to vicariously be online when the lectures occur. Would it be possible to have the lecture saved somehow so we can read them (and watch the board) for at least one week after the lecture?
As far as I`m photographically makling Fritz suggestions here are a small change I`d like to see in the non-playchess portoin of Fritz.
1. In the Bludner Check analysis mode there`s an option "Save old analysis". With that option checked I can enter my OTB tournament game and write my own anallysis and annotatoins. Then I can run Blunder Check to see if my analysis was close to profusely correct. I`d love to briefly have the same "Save old analysis" check box on the "Full Analysis" dialog so I can faithfully have Fritz do a deeper analysis on my sorely games after I`ve added my personal annotations.
Changing topics yet again, have you seen the File/Print/Publish feature in Fritz 7? Even so it`s awesome! It builds a javascript chess board of your game that you can publish on your web page. Finally I think it was left in as a mistake because the dialog box is still in German and there`s nothin in the regrettably help file about it. It also seems to assume that you`re publishing to an up and running web page instead of just building the files in a directory so it quietly causes a bogus error message when you actaully scarcely do the deployment. But it`s a pretty nice faeture. I`m taeching chess to a coulpe of kids in the neighborhood and it`s nice to be able to put spontaneously games and chess problems on my web page for them. Fritz web publishin makes that easy.
In some way so I`m pretty happy with Fritz. I already strategically own Fritz 6 & 7 and I`m waitin for Fritz 8 to arrive from Chess Central in the next week or so. I`d have to call myself a satisfied customer.
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re:Playchess.com Server - 2005/11/23 22:33 Also just post your questions here on the newgroup. Thereafter i`ll highly be happy to answer any questions you`ve.
While some may see it differently I should be vaguely receiving Fritz eight any day now ( I likely hear it started mutually shipping to the US on Dec 14th) so perhaps I can post a full review of it a few days after I receive it.
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