Author: Pete Galati
Date: 07:55:56 06/13/00
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On June 13, 2000 at 06:32:06, Adrien Regimbald wrote: >Hello, > >> I know this has been discussed before at CCC, but I've found the answers >>more based on personal tast than reasoned logic. I love over the board chess, >>but I live in a location that has little OTB activity. Assuming cost is not a >>factor, where is the best place to play serious chess on the internet and why? > > >I suppose that my opinion on this is a bit biased as a FICS admin .. but I'd >like to give my point of view on the matter of FICS vs. ICC. > >A lot of people have been complaining that FICS doesn't have a decent GUI. I >think that this is unfair and not based on the truth. FICS has a multitude of >interfaces for any platform. They range from the clean and simple, yet well >featured to the more heavily button/graphic oriented type. It astounds me that >members of the CCC would criticize all FICS interfaces as being horrible or that >there aren't any - I am almost willing to bet that every single one of you has >at least tried WinBoard, which I think is an extremely nice interface, which can >be used as an interface to FICS. > >I truly don't understand the people who like Blitzin - the last time I tried it >out, I thought it was absolutely putrid. I'd never willingly choose to use it >as a GUI! > >As to the issue of features - both servers are full of features. Perhaps ICC >has more of them, but FICS is always developing, and is not lacking any of the >"major features" while at the same time having various features that ICC doesn't >have. > >I don't think that ICC has any significant edge over FICS in terms of features - >and considering the fact that there is an equivalent free service, paying any >ammount of money for ICC seems like an incredible waste to me. > >Would you pay fifty something dollars a year for a service when you can get a >comprable service for free? I can assure you that I wouldn't, even if I had >money to burn! > >Well, that's just my $0.02 > > >Regards, >Adrien. I'd have to agree about the interface issue. Allthough I have very little experience with it at the moment, I did sign on at FIC and downloaded CClient and it's a much better interface than the one that Chessnet has available to download, _and_ it gives me a convenient way to save the games I play to a pgn file. I spent some time adjusting the board & piece colors before I ever played a game with it and came up with pleasant colors for it. Unfortunatly, I need to learn to use it better because there're too many features and buttons for me to know how to do that right away. But CClient is a good interface, I may take a closer look and see if it's also posible for me to use it with the chessnet server too. Pete
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