Author: Paul Jacobean Sacral
Date: 18:45:56 10/23/05
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On October 23, 2005 at 01:58:58, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: >Last night I updated my GUI8 to the latest one. First thing I noticed when I >went to Playchess is that in the Main Room, now when there are too many people I >am not allowed in ??!!@##!!!! This has never happened before !!! Anyone else >know anything about that? It happened to me too. I logged in with an account which has guest status because the serial number has expired. It did not happen with a knight rank account. This seems to be a new restriction at playchess.com, for guests. Another thing I noticed is, that being knight, you can type chat text into channels like "general" but nobody never ever responds. So I guess it goes into nirvana and nobody else can see it. The program gives no feedback about that to the user though, which I think is not acceptable. Other types of chat work like before. Restrictions like that are unusal at chess servers. Either there are none, like at FICS which btw. is completely free, or the user receives correct information about what he can do and what is not available, for instance as a guest in the ICC. I can only guess that playchess.com has bandwidth, or server performance troubles if they need to make such restrictions for simple functions. It is even more puzzling if you consider that only a couple of players will chat anyway. Like, if 3.000 are online, maybe 50 of them will want to chat. I never saw more than 10 players active in a chat channel, at the same time. Another thing are the kibitz restrictions. As soon as more than a handful of kibitzers watches a game, playchess restricts the kibitz chat to rook ranks, which requires 2300. Except for that, the Oct. 17th update for the GUI8 seems ok, with the exception that I cannot select/change the piece set for online games anymore. Yours truly Paul J. Sacral
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