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Subject: Re: Computerchess IRC chat channel ?

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 02:55:00 07/25/03

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On July 25, 2003 at 05:18:29, Harald Faber wrote:

>Based on my activities in some IRC channel I have another idea:
>What about setting up a dedicated chatroom for computerchess? That means an own
>channel on an existing IRC server. Of course an appropriate server has to be
>chosen, but this is the smallest problem. The advantage is that you directly see
>who is online in the channel and can place questions and answers directly.
>Answers usually follow immediately. The advantage is obvious: You don't need to
>reload any homepage (board) and see who is available. All you need is a small
>IRC client such as mIRC, dIRC, Trillian etc., add the server where the
>computerchess channel is and which channel you want to enter ("join"). So if
>there are several interested in that, we could try it out. A short introduction
>is no problem to write for those who had no contact with IRC yet. BTW you might
>consider your online costs if you don't have a flatrate because usually you
>don't want to quit such channels. ;-)
>So, who is interested now and who could operate such a channel?
>Or do such channels already exist?


Isn't channal 44 and 64 on ICC allready a channel for this?

44 - Computer chess-playing programs and chess databases.
64 - Programming and algorithms for chess-playing.

I usually have ch 64 open in its own window when I'm logged in.

Odd Gunnar



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