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Kenneth P. Turvey (kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com) wrote:
: On 5 Aug 1997 22:07:29 GMT, Syed Yusuf <yusuf921@news.uidaho.edu> wrote:
: >Thus spake Golden Medusa (please don't post email addresses):
: >
: >> As far as I found so far, FICS is just as good as ICC.
: >> I like ICC due to the fact that there are lessons like Mr Spock's
: >> I like FICS, cuz its free.
: >
: >  I perfer FICS for it's rating system which _doesn't_ perserve rating
: >points. basically if you don't play for a while you're reduced to
: >"19 games provisional" equivalant.
: >  and I have crafty/winboard for lessons on what I've overlooked in my

: I have been using FICS for a while (not very often unfortunately), but
: I have no idea what crafty is.  What is crafty.  I use xboard
: (equivalent to winboard, but for the X Window System).

It is one of several chess programs that are available freely over the
net, and it is xboard compatible.  In fact, there are some specific features
in xboard designed to use features in Crafty.