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re:Convert Yahoo! Chess Game Notation to PGN - 2006/08/17 16:21
Alternatively, consider playing chess on FICS instead of Yahoo.
FICS - http://www.freechess.org (Free Chess Internet Server)
iNemesis - http://www.ideabuilders.com/public/ (free graphical interface for FICS)
For reasons why, visit:
http://www.edcollins.com/chess/yahoo-vs-servers.htm
It's an excellent page about Yahoo vs the Chess Servers. Check this page to see all the benefits of a *real* chess server like FICS, as opposed to game sites like Yahoo.
Among other things, he gives a table showing just some of the advantages in playing chess on the chess servers, with a chess interface, compared with playing chess at Yahoo! and their Java applet. One of course, is that using a graphical interface (like iNemesis) on chess servers like FICS, you can have your games saved in PGN automatically, not to mention analyze them immediately afterwards with a chess engine.
Check his page for all the details, but here are a few quotes:
"A popular place to play chess on-line is at the Yahoo! Games site. At times, I see anywhere from 4,000 to 5,000 people, or more, logged into the chess room, playing here!! These figures never cease to amaze me because
Yahoo! is NOT the ideal place to play on-line chess! That distinction belongs to the chess servers, namely, US Chess Live, FICS, Chess.net and to a lesser degree, ICC.
"This page is my effort to help educate those who are not yet aware of the on-line chess servers and all of the many advantages that they offer.
"Unless you are a "newbie" and you simply have not yet learned how to download programs and unzip and run them, I can see NO advantage in playing chess at Yahoo!. The only advantage in playing chess at Yahoo!
is that it caters to computer newbies."
Read more at: http://www.edcollins.com/chess/yahoo-vs-servers.htm.
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