Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 23:43:56 03/29/99
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On March 29, 1999 at 20:40:59, Steve Lopez wrote: >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. Yeah, Yahoo is ridiculous. I played 5 games there, and my rating was 2565. The only person higher who was logged in at the time was rated 32000, and they ducked me. :) Dave Gomboc
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