Re: chess on line

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From: Tim Mann
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 00:00

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>On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, service economique wrote:
>> I'd like to know how I can play chess with a partner on line.

In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.980219195231.7456A-100000@sirius>, Twilley <td6af@herts.ac.uk> writes:
>Try www.zone.com, there is some downloading for but there is a perfectly 
>acceptable chess server on it, perhaps not as powerful as we'd all like 
>but a start nevertheless!

Try http://chessclub.com or http://fics.onenet.net instead.  They are
both dedicated, powerful chess servers.  You can try them without
downloading anything (though there are nice GUIs you can download).
Unlike www.zone.com, they don't require you to be running Internet
Exploder on a PC to get access!

-- 
Tim Mann <mann@pa.dec.com>
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/

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From: mann@pa.dec.com (Tim Mann)
Subject: Re: chess on line
Date: 1998/02/23
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