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Anders Carlsson wrote:
> "Anthony" <boy.pizza@wanadoo.fr> writes:
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>>Thx for your answer but what is ICS ?
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> ICS is an acronym for Internet Chess Server. There are several
kinds
> of those, from free access (like e.g. FICS,
http://www.freechess.org)
> to commercial, member based ones like WCN.

FICS is so cool, even the development version of GNU Chess plays
there on occaison (name nextgnu).

You can add your friends to a notify list (e.g. +notify nextgnu)
so you'll know if they log in. Mastering the commands does take
a while, some of the interfaces try to hide them all under
menu's and the like.

> The best thing is if you want to play human to human, you don't
> even really need a chess engine :-), just the interface (for
FICS,
> typically WinBoard, http://www.tim-mann.org/xboard.html).

Yes, Tim's pages even discuss how to play direct to another
person via the Internet, but FICS is much more fun.

Only downside is FICS doesn't like 8 bit characters (at least
with Xboard, but I think it is a general thing) so no "funny"
French accents and the like when chatting, not that I chat when
playing chess (much). Does anyone know if the European server
still has this restriction?
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