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Subject: Re: Chess Assistant 8 - no ICC support?

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 14:40:28 11/20/04

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On November 19, 2004 at 16:54:39, Oreopoulos Kostas wrote:

>Dear Jay.
>
>Icc can provide licence or withdraw it for CA to include an interface for its
>server. It can also if they like block all other clients around (because they
>have that functionality)
>
>ICC for the past 2 years is constantly asked by a lot of people for new
>interface.
>I suppose you are a paying ICC client. Dont you find annoying that they did not
>provide a decent interface instead of the outdated Blitzin . For the past year
>they keep saying.. its comming out soon.
>
>Convekta decided to make its own server. I dont think you will disagree they
>have that right. But ICC thought that its not in there interest to to provide an
>licence for CA. The reason for me is obvious. If both clients exist.. you will
>definately compare them... and chessplanet is by miles way from poor blitz in.


I'm not sure what you mean "provide a license to use ICC" - any client can
access ICC as they use a published protocol.  Thus, I don't really care hos
sucky Blitzin is, I can use any client I want.

What CA should do is provide access to any server that uses the ICS protocol,
ICC, FICS, etc.  Chess Partner does this.

Sure they have a right to make their own server, but they are smoking something
if they think they going to entice enough people to use it by providing access
to *only* that server.  Chessbase only gets away with it because they are a
near-monopoly.



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