Author: Pete R.
Date: 15:58:30 06/13/00
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On June 13, 2000 at 18:15:54, Pete R. wrote: >On June 13, 2000 at 10:55:56, Pete Galati wrote: > >>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 > >You think, maybe? ;) > > [snip] > >>>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! > >I haven't tried FICS, so like many I suppose I use ICC because I stumbled on it >first. But I fail to see what could be wrong with Blitzin. The chessboard looks >fine, the seek display is fine, and playing a game is quite comfortable. What >else do I need? Perhaps I need to check out FICS to see all the wonderful >GUIs?? I can't imagine something that is so much better that Blitzin would >fairly be called "putrid" by comparison. Whoops, I was following up to Adrien, not Pete of course. In any case I looked at the screenshots for the various interfaces shown at FICS. Fugly!! ;) Didn't see one for Freak, and could not access the web site given here. Anyway the default board for Winboard is ugly as sin, for example. Sickly green and yellow tones for the squares, and the pieces look like what you would find on old DOS programs. The other interface boards looked no better, the point being that it would take some tweaking and font loading to get the boards to look anywhere near as nice as the Blitzin board. I don't care how well the features are laid out if I have to look at an ugly board the whole time. Some FICS fan please feel free to show me what you think is a nice-looking board, so I can decide which of us must be smoking something. ;)
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