Author: Matt
Date: 20:53:34 04/22/00
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On April 22, 2000 at 22:27:16, Tina Long wrote: >Hi guys, >My name is Ralph Basden, I am using Tina's Access with her permission. >(Tina went to Sydney for two days work & ended up in Surfers Paradise until who >knows when.) > >I served my free week at ICC: > >"Statistics for WaccaBBall > rating [need] win loss draw total best >Bullet 1588 [7] 1 0 0 1 >Blitz 1483 38 19 11 68 1483 (22-Apr-2000) >Standard 1668 13 5 1 19 " > >My record against computers 0 - 9 - 0 > humans 52 - 13 - 12 (I played mainly 1300-1450's) >My mate Joe played a couple 0 - 2 - 0 > >ICC was great, & $50 US bucks is probably reasonable. > >Anyway, >Today I joined FICS, using the excellent information Georg posted for me. >I downloaded "Chess Client" & while it operates well, the pieces arn't the best. >Georg recommended "Freak" or "Thief" but I couldn't find either. > >What's the "Clearest Pieces" "Easy to use" Bestest free Client, & where do I get >it? Should I be a Winboard User? > >Thanks again >Ralph Basden Thief is available from www.freechess.org, or http://www.d2d4.de/thief.asp. Cclient and winboard are the easiest and most popular interfaces Thief's pieces are very clear but they are ugly. they are vector drawn pieces as opposed to bitmaps. If you want to play bughouse or crazyhouse, you may want to use thief. for regular chess, winboard is very easy to use with a nice looking chess board. Matt
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