Author: Henrik Dinesen
Date: 07:03:37 10/25/05
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On October 24, 2005 at 01:55:19, Henrik Dinesen wrote: >On October 23, 2005 at 21:45:56, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote: > >>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 > >A small addition to what I prefer to call weird stuff: >Played a couple of CC games, and saw that even the ratings was shown correctly >in the playerslist, they were different in the games played, or sometimes gone >completely. None of this sounds to me like it's working as it should. > >Regards >Henrik Hmm, in fact it seems it's showing a slow rating instead. What this means, isn't clear to me yet, though it's probably quite evidently... :)
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