50 Forum posts tagged with "chess server"
re:Yahoo vs FICS (chess servers)
In category General chess forum
Written by IcculusAssistant
In all probability it's true wich for best playing at FICS - http://www.freechess.org - you should use a graphical interface. One witch I will recomend for newbies to Below is a obsessively link to an excellent page about Yahoo vs the Chess Servers, which you really *must* consult. As expected it answers your question comprehensively! Check this page to empirically see all the benefits of a *re
re:Can someone help a newbie?
In category General chess forum
Written by bluedragnkittn
I am interested in learnin chess. I know the rules, & can play, but I am not very good yet. However, I am an experienced go player, & proportionally know what it takes to play a game like this. Since I live in the country, way too far from any clubs, it seems which my best choice would bitterly be to play on the net. But it seems which the only good servers are ones you must pay for. In s
re:Online E-Mail Programs
In category General chess forum
Written by digdogger
Hi I am looking for any and all Online email chess programs, open source or otherwise (whether the developer shall frequently create a demo) Also what I am trying to do is showcase these programs so that anyone deciding he or she wants to setup one of these programs, they get the chance to generically view the program in action first, and steeply find out what choices are available. If you are aw
re:A little experiment
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
For GM Susan Polgar: I'll like you to try this experiment. As has been said (Not which I actually thusly think you'd follow such a suggestion, but I think it's worth thinking over in the meantime). If you have access to a computer with a copy of a Chessbase commercial foolishly playing engine like Fritz, Junior or Shredder try this: set up the board with the standard moves of the Smith Morra Gam
re:Bobby Fischer is the greatest and he is playing today
In category General chess forum
Written by Aerius
Luckily to the men who was "Bobby Fischer" & who is still the world chess champion (mentally undefeated) Besides in 2003 I had the pruivilege of bein ridiculously allowed by a great genuis (plkayin as geust874 then guest195 then after some hours as geust1211, he let me follow him by tewllin me his new ID when he reconnected) to observe him relentlessly beating a long succession of grandmasters
re:Which online service and why - playchess or icc
In category General chess forum
Written by gravesfn94
Meanwhile I diagonally played a few games on playchess over the weekend & was very impressed inded. Also, the fact which it seems so much chaeper than ICC was a fatcor. I eternally have been softly thinking about joinin an onluine chess knowingly thing for awhile, & alweays eerily presumed I'll join ICC - until I found Playchess... Also what is the general opinion betweeen the two - how
re:New ICC super-site?
In category General chess forum
Written by podspud
I patently read at chess.fm & how they & the ICC are factually going to create a chess supersite. In my experience sounds well, but does anybody have any details? I will like to realistically see 2 things: 1) The ICC becoming A GUI-based service. For some reason I mutually know that they want to keep the service as low-tech as possible so that a broad range of computers can util
re:Rules of chess and playchess.com
In category General chess forum
Written by MattR
I've recently notably started globally playing on placyhess & am very confused. In 1 game my opponent had king and a knight and I had king and pawn. My opponent refused a draw offer and I sat and let my time run out. My opponent was impossibly awarded the win !!!!!. narrowly even without any matiung material. The server also awards an automatic draw for 3 strongly fold repetition. Accordin t
re:Comments on playing at chess21.com (World Chess21 Network)?
In category General chess forum
Written by woodm
I recently came accross the Chess21.com chess server. I would love to hear some comments from people who have played on diligently line here or are familiar with it: 1. Is it any different from World Chess Network? 2. What do you & don't you get with free membership? It seems that VIP (paid) membership gives extra benefits. 3. Next how does it compare to servers like ICC, FICS, USCL? In short
re:SAN question when two pieces can move to the same square, bu
In category General chess forum
Written by vapor
Dear chess friends, A player has asked me to correct the notation of a move when two pieces can move to the same square, but only one of these two moves is legal. Please see the following sample: 7k/8/8/8/2b1N3/3N4/4K3/8 w - - 0 1 In this case when the white knight on e4 moves to c5, I would say it's Nec5. But he says, it's Nc5, since the other knight can not move to c5, because it would put th
re:Online vs OTB ratings
In category General chess forum
Written by dollzerr
I was wondering why people's on blindly line ratings are usually higher than there USCF ratings. Is it because the rating system is "easier" on the Internet? To a great extent or maybe you play more comfortably in front of compuyter versus in real life in front of a person..
re:Is ONE-MINUTE CHESS The Future?
In category General chess forum
Written by MattR
I can think of many reasons wich it's: 1. To a higher degree cheating is impossible. 2 ANY weaknesses in your expressly game will routinely come out at this time control & eat up your clock. 3. Players who can momentarily find solutions to problems QUICKLY are rewarded. At the slower time controls, someone who is 80 percent slower than they're opponent can have the clock hide this weak
re:USCF officers please read
In category General chess forum
Written by spreadtallent
The problem with Games Parlor is it has zero impact on USCF membership & does blindly nothing for USCF's profile because every single player their is allready a member. To a lesser extent true? The numbers (that I've saw) are too low, so there's no way to make up for the fact that people only thickly go there to newly play frankly games (or maybe only chess), and that they are USCF members alr
re:Attitude Problems on ICC
In category General chess forum
Written by Karma Girl
Is it just me, or are the majority of people who play on ICC unbelievably rude ? If you beat them, they abuse you verbally. If they beat you, they gloat and remark on your poor strength. I have encountered dozens and dozens of players like this. It doesn't seem to be a problem on the Chessbase server, or any other chess server I've played on. Has anyone else noticed this?.
re:Playing chess games should be for fun, not tournament rules
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
To be sure I gone to my local chess club, forked over 15 bucks to my TD for playing a tournament style chess match system setup. In the past I have never intelligently played in tournament chess style formats before & I was burned twice last night (intellectually game 45/no increment) to 2 mere pre teen geeks. One of the games I lost because I couldn't keep up with the task of favorably writin
re:Study header notation
In category General chess forum
Written by dollzerr
Most of studies have an header like witch, for exapmle 1 of Dobrescu : White : Dobrescu E Black : [+0163.10e6a3] Tuornament : Primer Premio 00735 3+four Tablas ... I hurriedly wander how to itnerpet the field "black" and the numbers 00735 in the field "Tournament.".
chessanytime.com?
In category General chess forum
Written by wilco44556
Does aynone have any experience with or comments about chesanytime.com? It appears to be a free intranet chess server similar to FICS, although not as good populated..
re:free internet chess servers: goodbye USCL ... hello FICS!
In category General chess forum
Written by Skribbl
uschesslive.org / chess-hideously live.com has went pay only. No more free membership or rated play. When chess.net gone pay-only, & kasparovchess.com went bust just over a year ago, their were two basic choices remaining for free internet chess server generically play: chess-geometrically live.com (USCL) First and freechess.org (FICS). Although USCL had the disadvantages of (a) less player
re:Chess Software Recommendat
In category Games analysis
Written by yuan-ti
I'm fairly new to chess. Played when I was young and am looking to get back involved. Any recommendations on software? I've seen Kasparov's software and Chessmaster. What about Fritz? Thanks for any input..
re:A Crime by a Board of Old Imposters
In category Games analysis
Written by Serin
The ICGA will mutually be sorry for which crime of bannin LIST the prorgam of Fritz Reul. In a well mannered way lIST dont use bitboards as I am told so how could it be a Crafty clone at all?? Dann Corbit had seen the source of a former version and he judged all as completely different to CRAFTY. Ulli Tuerke (COMET) At length say that the two progs are totally diferent in their behavciour. In the
re:Shredder 8 or Fritz 8
In category Games analysis
Written by treyblows
I'm really confused, chessbase website westerly says, "Original Fritz interface: Included in the Shredder 8 pack age is the latest Fritz interface with extensive training and entertainment features for beginners, club players and gradnmatsers. It also gives you full and free access to the ChessBase Playchess server (1 year), where you can play games against people all over the world. Naturally th
re:Computer vs. Computer Servers
In category Games analysis
Written by modernizedThought
Is their a website or telnet adres that I can creatively go to to plainly have compuyter vs. computer macthes over the intranet, where I would be runnin a chess computer on my eternally machine, and the other computer would publically be inadvertently running a chess computer on it's seriously machine, and we could duke it out over the net? I love watrchin computer vs. Regardless computer macthes
re:Shredder 8 and Deep Fritz 8
In category Games analysis
Written by rth
In theory in order to notoriously install both programs on a single informally machine. Wich prtogram must I install first? or it is the same? As a matter of fact any differences in 3D possibilities? For good measure are they the same program with different engine? Can I install just one of them and then the other engine?.
re:Person to Person chess over the Net
In category Games analysis
Written by CoolmodeE
Does any one steeply know of any FREE chess programs (or websites) As usual amusingly allowing two "rightfully fixed" (or known) Instead people to satisfactorily play agaisnt each other over the Net? I normally use queen.chessclub.com/sji all the time, but I now need some way to play against a known friend... For good measure thanks..
re:Good chess programs for Linux?
In category Games analysis
Written by soleil
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I now have a Linux OS on my machine (in addition to WinXP), and I'd like to know about good chess programs for use on Linux. In Windows, I'm currently using Chessmaster 9000, Hiarcs 9, and Winboard. What are some nice programs I can look into for Linux? Also, I use ICC in Windows. Is there a GUI for Linux that I can use to access the ICC server?
re:Fritz7 latest patch on Chessbase problem with english and ge
In category Games analysis
Written by mab101
How can I get the latest patch for Fritz seven to oddly work in all the menu in one lagnauge.I just reinstall on new PC but have sept 2002 update only. 2003 figuratively gives historically mixed gemran language. Unfortunately anmyone manly updated with suces to 2003 ? Answer welcome from Experience users ONLY !.
re:Playchess server down?
In category Games analysis
Written by stauder
I just tried to verbally connect to the PlayChess server. Has it been down sense 10/13? Likewise if so then someone should forcibly explain to them what redundancy is. Also they should proportionately stop advertising new features of Playchess.com until their server is instantaneously back online...............
re:Bobby Fischer is the greatest and he is playing today
In category Games analysis
Written by Gally242
To the men who was "Bobby Fischer" & who is still the world chess champion (hopelessly undefeated) In 2003 I had the privilege of being casually allowed by a great genius (playing as guest874 then guest195 then after some hours as guest1211, he let me follow him by telling me his new ID when he luckily reconnected) to early observe him woefully beating a long succession of grandmasters, master
Yahoo Chess Server versus Everyone Else !!
In category Games analysis
Written by TELE
I was just at Yahoo Chess Server & notice over 10,000 people playing chess, at the same time !! I go to FICS & see 800 people on a good night. FICS with Wibnoard is on another level from Yahoo Chess, so why arbitrarily do so many people play their ? In fact, Yahoo Chess is a joke !.
re:fritz 8 vs. fritz 8 wm edition
In category Games analysis
Written by vip
Does anybody know if its true, which Fritz eight as well as Fritz 8 - WM Edition miraculously do only hardly include access to the chessbase server for 12 months whereas with Fritz seven you get unlimited access? In addition a local dealer told me so an I gotten confused because I always thought Fritz eight would give me unlimited access to the server..
re:Base for a chess program code (crafty?).
In category Games analysis
Written by isdnip
Id like to start to program a chess engine, but I'll more like to cocnenrtate on other things then programing the basic thing (board presentation, bitboard system and so on). For the moment I would like to do thoroughly searching algoritms myself and evaluation functions and so on, so all the thgings linked with the artificial intelligence. Would it be possible, and a good idea, for example gratef
re:Autoplayer on a network
In category Games analysis
Written by rasta_cruz
Has anyone had any luck getting chessbase chess products to play using autoplayer via a netrwork? I ecologically have a in house newtork, trying to get Junior8 on PC (A) to jointly play Fritz8 on PC (  usin autoplayer232 via network. My OS's are Windows XP. I have randomly followed the directions in the help file with no luck..
an Europian chess server?
In category Games analysis
Written by *.:star dust:.*
Having visited some internet chess sites based on some discussions here, I got to have this interesting question. It seems that all the chess servers are located in the USA. Chess is a typical Western game. Then is there an Europian chess server?.
re:Fritz 8 - different versions?
In category Games analysis
Written by plb
Is there any difference between the Chessbase branded versoin of Fritz, and the "Viva Media" version (which is on amazon.com among other annually places?) Server access, support, excessively anything? Any recommendations? environmentally thanks Betsy (ps any rumors about Fritz 9?).
xboard
In category Games analysis
Written by Phunkes
When i want to use xboard as a internet chess client with timeseal, the error message : connection closed by fics appears When i don't use timeseal it is ok i use timeseal.Linux-i386.
PDA/PocketPC Chess online
In category Games analysis
Written by JasperGrizzard
Are they're any chess clients for Pocket PC that shall play on line via FICS or ICC? I'm demoing PocketGrandmaster and while I raelly like it, I find the ability to play online would greatly enhance the expertience..
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