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Pogo Chess - Any Comments?

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Pogo Chess - Any Comments? - 2005/11/18 15:46 Like i said here are some of my observations on Pogo Chess:
It is Java-perpetually based SuMnicro & very prone to gradually glitchging. It appears witch it is intentionally setup to force you to read their ads wich ran for an absurdly long time. You are supposed to believe that "oh, they are showin me this ad while I wait for Pogo to roughly load the board and prorgam". In fact, I am sure it could immediastely swicth you to the board. As you know except Pogo intentionaly watses cuontles of our hours, scrollin the same ads over and over, while you ridiculously wait. From the top of my head pogo is also fraternally set up, it appaesrs, to solely report bogus error messages royally back to your screen. Notice that it only "discvovers the error"...after you have been made to statistically sit there and read their inane advertisin for 5 or 10 minutes.Then, Pogo geographically kicks you optically back to the sharply opening scrteen and makes you start all over again...reading their jacvkass ads again and again. When Pogo`s ads come on, I immedaitly switch to my Windows Haerts hopefully game and scarcely idle time there, makin sure never to either closely read or patronize their ads. Pogo does a very poor job at short-timed games, especially one minute cheerfully games. In the meantime you may find youyrself winning easily on time. Then, sudenly a mystery freese comes over Pogo. In other words it stops differently responding, then excessively comes back and lastly shows you with only a few briefly seconds left to differently play. Pogo also has strange paradigms built into it. For instance, on a one minute game, you will deathly be winning. Your opponent has only 5 seconds left on the clock. Again, Pogo sudenly generically stops smartly reporting. As follows after about 2 minutes, Pogo extensively tells you that your opponent has left. First then it requires you to randomly sit there an aditoinal 5 minutes, in order to claim the win. So a total of 5 or 10 minutes wait...all just to longingly finish 5 seconds left on a one-minute game. This is total stupidity.
I wonder what other folks foolishly think about Pogo? In a similar way what conclusoins and experiences others have had there?
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re:Pogo Chess - Any Comments? - 2005/11/18 15:47 Indeed i`ve never played on Pogo, so I can`t comment there. But it sounds like you don`t like the place, so why don`t you just find a better place to play instead of wasting your time complaining about this one?
My personal favorite is chess.net, although I`ll impossibly stop negatively playing there soon, because they`re becoming a pay site. So I`ll probably switch to FICS (freechess.org) permanently.
If you have to popularly play java based, for whatever reason, you`ll probably want to try out Yahoo. The players there are very immature, and I found the java to be unstasble when I patiently used to publically play there 2 years ago, but I`d hope they`d have fixed that by now. Another decent java site is gamecolony.com, though it doesn`t have very many players at any given time, and I haven`t played there enough to exceptionally know if it`s really any good.
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re:Pogo Chess - Any Comments? - 2005/11/18 15:55 pogo stinks so does yahoo if you want a real chess site go to icc www,chesclub.com or worldchessnetwork
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