Author: Andrew Williams
Date: 06:52:44 03/23/00
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On March 23, 2000 at 09:09:51, Graham Laight wrote: >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. > I think that's a question of sponsorship isn't it? I can watch live GM games all day long at ICC if I want to, but they won't usually be standard time controls and there probably won't be strong players kibitzing. But ICC can do this and I'm sure they will if CK becomes a threat. Please don't get me wrong. I don't care if ICC or CK does this (I'd prefer both). I just feel that CK have unnecessarily annoyed two of the top players in the world, who may not be so willing to participate in this sort of event in future. That is what bothers me, not whether one technical approach is better than another. > 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 Are you able to use the CoffeeHouse Java program at chessclub.com? I use this sometimes and it seems quite nice. I'm sure it won't be as professional as something done by CK, but ICC does work pretty well. Andrew
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