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Subject: Re: Live Chess Is Worth A Try.

Author: James B. Shearer

Date: 16:31:40 03/23/00

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On March 23, 2000 at 09:09:51, Graham Laight wrote:

                    <snip>

>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.

       Maybe you can, it has never worked for me.  A lot of the time their
web pages don't even display properly (I get some message like innerwidth not
defined and very long lines).

>
>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.
>

       I am behind a firewall at work and ICC (coffeehouse) works fine.  I had
no trouble following the Linares games (at least when the linares site was up so
the moves could be relayed).
                               James B. Shearer




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