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Subject: Re: On-line Chess

Author: Mike Saavedra

Date: 12:02:12 01/31/99

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On January 31, 1999 at 10:10:25, Richard SLONE wrote:

>Hi,
>    What are some good on-line chess websites for playing against other people
>over the Internet?  The only one I have tried is Yahoo-games-chess and I am
>looking for something better.  It's method of selecting games is nice and easy,
>but the games apparently arent' saved in pgn notation.  I get errors when
>uploading them into CM5k.  "Mouse droppings" are also a problem, as they don't
>seem to allow a click to pickup and another click to place.  Their rating system
>also seems to be non-standard.  The chat line also has/allows alot of obsence
>stuff.  I want to find a good site (free?) that allows saving games in standard
>pgn for uploading into Fritz 5.32 (just ordered it) for later analysis.
>   What sites do you like to use for on-line playing?
>       Thanks,
>       Richard

Try FICS at www.freechess.org . I use CClient as my interface, and it allows PGN
saving of games. I also believe Winboard does the same. It is much better than
Yahoo. If you don't mind paying for a few more perks, try the ICC at
www.chessclub.com .



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