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Thx for your answers, I went to freechess (the Quick Guide page can be read
in french :)
So I've an other question : what is the interest you find in Gnu Chess ;
I've just play with it once without any gui .... I havn't anything against
it, but I would know why Gnu Chess is so famous ;-)

Thx Anthony

"Simon Waters" <Simon@wretched.demon.co.uk> a �crit dans le message news:
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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 ?
> >
> >
> > 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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