Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 14:10:34 11/13/02
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On November 13, 2002 at 16:19:13, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: >On November 12, 2002 at 22:26:54, Rex wrote: > >>These two chess servers are very popular and cant understand why ChessBase wont >>implement compatibility with these internet chess servers. > >Why should they? I can think of several reasons. (1) how many players are logged on to playchess.com at any time? ICC typically has 1000-2000 people on all the time. (2) how many FM/IM/GM players are logged on to playchess.com at any time? ICC typically has a couple of dozen GM players on, not to mention IM/FM players. The danger in the above kind of thinking (we won't support other servers to make ours more popular) can have an inverse sort of result. If enough try ICC I think they would _demand_ ICC support... > >Chessbase sells a product called "Fritz". This article includes access to a fast >growing chess server called "playchess.com". Why should Chessbase voluntarily >fight its own server's growth and popularity by implementing ICC compability? > >If you want to use ICC or FICS, there's is lots of alternate and freely >available software for you to use. > >If you want to use playchess.com, you need Fritz. You left out the _important_ part. If you want to use ICC you _cant_ use fritz. That might hurt one day soon... Particularly if ChessBase products are the _only_ ones that can't use ICC... > >It's as simple as that. > >I'm still waiting for someone to complain that Fritz cannot cook coffee or do >the laundry ... ;-) > >Andreas
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