Author: Graham Laight
Date: 06:09:51 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 06:39:38, Andrew Williams wrote: >On March 23, 2000 at 05:27:30, Graham Laight wrote: > >>On March 22, 2000 at 18:42:36, Bruce Moreland wrote: >> >>> >>>I think the whole thing is ridiculous, again. >>> >>>bruce >> >>I think Club Kasparov deserve a lot of credit for trying to stage this event. >>Live chess, the way they present it, is thrilling to watch! >> >>OK - they should have accepted full responsibility for the problems - but I hope >>they won't be deterred from trying again. >> >>Kudos to Club Kasparov! > >I don't really understand this view. The technology to play live chess on >the internet is already available and has been for years. Yet CK have tried >to develop their own stuff, apparently disregarding the years of experience >that have gone in to FICS and ICC and chess.net Now we have had two You can't easily walk into FICS or ICC and watch an exciting live game with IM/GM commentary. At Club Kasparov, on days when they're running live games (admittedly not many at the moment :-( ), you can open the home page, click on a flashing link, and be presented with a nice chessboard (on which you can scroll through the game) with taken pieces shown, and commentary on the side. I cannot see how you can easily do this at FICS or ICC. In any case, the ICC board doesn't work through our firewall. ICC might be great for playing chess at home, but it's no good for following a game on the side at work. -g >highly-publicised events at CK, both of which have ended in disaster. Obviously >ISP problems have played their part, but surely these aren't insurmountable? >eg On Mar 5 ICC hosted the OZ.COM tournament in which 310 FIDE rated players >from all over the world participated. And let's not forget the successful >First Computer Chess Tournament at ICC earlier this year (22 participants from >all over the globe, including Junior). I hate to say it but CK's approach to >these things seems a bit amateurish; surely it would have been better to play >a lot of private matches first before trying to go public with a service that >wasn't ready? > > >Andrew
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