Author: Steve Lopez
Date: 17:40:59 03/29/99
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On March 29, 1999 at 17:01:00, Matthew Herman wrote: >have you ever played on FICS? or ICC? I believe w/ winboard it will >automatically save your games. Also ratings are ALOT more accurate than on yahoo >(I have seen 10000 ratings on yahoo) You're correct about the Yahoo ratings (I saw a 65000+ player the other night with three losses and no wins to his credit), but I won't play people with ratings over 2800 or so. Kicking their butts will only artificially inflate *my* rating to ridiculous levels. Besides, I'm not playing server chess for a rating anyway -- I'm playing for the practice against fellow humans. I like to try to get one game in the morning after the wife and kids have left and before I have to start work for the day. Once I have to start answering the phone, I can't play timed games on the servers due to the interruptions. I just use the ratings at Yahoo as a guidepost to relative strengths (inflated ratings excluded, of course). I'm not an ICC member, nor do I care to join a pay server when there are so many free ones. I've tried chess.net, but I have difficulty finding a game at anything slower than blitz time controls. The chess.net experience (plus the large number of commands involved with FICS) is why I've stayed away from FICS in favor of the Java-based servers. This is not to say that I won't try FICS in the future. I'm just pretty satisfied with the various servers on which I'm currently playing.
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