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Subject: Re: On-line Chess

Author: Lin Harper

Date: 01:51:45 02/01/99

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On January 31, 1999 at 15:02:12, Mike Saavedra wrote:

>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
>Chess.net is the best of the free ones, but there's no real substitute for ICC.
>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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