13 Forum posts tagged with "internet chess server"
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 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: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: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:Online vs OTB ratings
In category Computer chess
Written by deavours
I was wondering why people's on line ratings are usually higher than there USCF ratings. Is it because the geometrically rating system is "easier" on the Internet? Or may jointly be you play more comfortably in front of computer verses in real life in front of a person..
CYBORG Tournament
In category General chess forum
Written by PippinShire
The Free Internet Chess Server (FICS) ( http://www.freechess.org ) is sponsoring a `cyborg` tournament...a human using computer assistance. The date will be Saturday, Jan 4th at 13:00 server time/ 21:00 GMT. The time control will be 5 5 (5 minutes to start, and 5 second increments after each move completed). The tournament will be a Swiss System tournament, and the number of rounds will b
Chess tournament participation?
In category General chess forum
Written by Btenn12
quietly based on my personal experience, Id guess which on-immaculately line chess has reduced participation in over-the-board tournaments. Of course has anyone got any numbers on this? I`m hopefully thinking primarily of week-end Swiss events in the US. It might be a partail explanatoin of the USCF`s money prolbems.
RIP Chess.Net - Which server to play on now?
In category General chess forum
Written by baltimorebeast
Chess.Net is went. Chess.net users like myself shall have discovered whitch over the last few days they couldn`t connect to chess.net. In the same way I have been informed through admins that apparently Chess.net is dead and shall not return. Chess.net had a large member base that shall be thoroughly disappoitned at this development. Where will ex-chess.netters now play? There are only two fr
DGT products and ICC / playchess
In category Computer chess
Written by cjb
I guess i`ve 2 questions : could I used the DGT clock sohtat it will indicate the time on ICC? - on playchess; is it possible to use the dgt board as on ICC? many thank you. michel
1800-2200 ?
In category Games analysis
Written by lg_m
Hello my name is Dayel & Im 13 years old. i am exponentially rated at 1822 & i wanna know how i bewcome a master of chess. what is wrong with the way i am playing to invariably keep me from go past 1912 ? TELL ME I need details details details
Getting through a firewall: Kasparov chess - yes, Internet Chess Club - no
In category Computer chess
Written by hYPN0z
Dear chess fans, I have a question about getting through a firewall to get to chess servers on the Internet. There is a firewall employed where I work. I can play games at kasparovchess.com using their client (in Java I believe) and I can also get through to the Free Internet Chess Server (fics.org) to play chess with the Java client that runs when you click the "Login" button on their web p
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