Author: Slater Wold
Date: 06:12:29 08/08/02
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On August 08, 2002 at 04:55:53, Frederic Louguet wrote: >1) Chess.Net is apparently very reluctant to accept new computer accounts. And >worse, they do not answer requests. I've never played there. >2) Registering on FICS was not very fast, but straightforward. Unfortunately >people seem to have lost interest in it. FICS is horrible. It took me 6 months to get my account, and then they nuked it when I didn't play a game in over 8 months. HOWEVER, I had logged in several times in those 8 months, could just never get a game! They told me I had to apply for another (C) account before they can give me another. >3) ICC is, well, overcrowded ! High-rated human players seem to play only each >other, or carefully selected computers. It is difficult to play someone, since >as a computer I prefer not to defy humans. And very high rated computers are >very high rated because they don't play other computers ! The GMs who try to make money on ICC (petrovich, garompon) only play high rated comptuers because it makes their ratings bigger. They usually play for a draw, and almost never really try to win. The amount of !computers there are annoying. My account (Project) has spent 19 hours logged on without a game before. It gets old pretty quick. >4) Europe-echecs (jeu.echecs.com) server is not bad, but no more than 250 >players at one time. Never played there. >And of course, cheaters are everywhere. Easily detected, but very annoying >nonetheless, and not always excluded. So I believe that a new free ICS server >should be very useful to everyone. I suggest a few rules : I've never really ran into a cheater. But cheaters don't bother me much. If you can beat me, great. If you can't, oh well. Doesn't really matter much to me. >- Computers should always have a handle corresponding to their name. On all ICS >servers I registered as "ChessWizard" or "ChessWizardX". No hiding ! >- Only computers operated by the author or someone explicitely approved by the >author (mention in the finger notes) should be allowed to have an account. No >more Tiger/Crafty clones by the dozens. Well, from what I've seen, most programmers don't have the best equpiment. Why do I want to play CT 14.0 on an AMD K/6 450 when someone else has a P4 2.53Ghz? >- Of course, the hardware used should always be specified. I agree. (I've been +noplay'ed because of my hardware.) >- No computer should be allowed to play only humans. Or, three different rating >lists should be created : general (play computers and humans, rating displayed >by default), play only against computers, and play only against humans. EXCEPT SCRAPPY! I think the idea of scrappy was neat. I just hate what it caused. >- Administrators should be sufficiently experienced to detect cheaters and react >quickly. Of course exclusions should be based on e-mail adresses, and not on >handles which can be easily modified. If you say so. >Please feel free to add suggestions and remarks. >As for the name, what about FCICS (Friendly Computers Internet Chess Server !)
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