Re: FICS [was "---SCAM WARNING---"]

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From: Syed Yusuf
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 1997 00:00

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Thus spake Scott Bogert (please don't post email addresses):

what is the POINT?

FICS is FREE, has friendly admin, has a superior rating system, has a  MORE
STABLE server,

what does ICS offer that FICS doesn't?
GMs get free membership? (all membership is free at FICS)
live simulcasts of World Tournaments? (FICS has this)
"instructional games" play a team game at FICS and listen to higher
   rated's analysis of the position.
ICS's only other claim to fame is "most games played"
   I'd rather stay at FICS where I don't have to turn the "shout" off
the minute I log in to avoid a sensory overload (even with an 
interface)

> you can also play as many unrated games on icc for free, too (they just
> aren't rated).

  and BTW you can play unrated games at FICS for free too (they just
aren't rated).

FIDE is the chess mafia,
ICS is the AOL of the chess servers.

-- 
Syed Yusuf                              http://www.uidaho.edu/~yusuf921
"Only a brave person is able honestly to accept, and fearlessly to face,
what a sincere and logical mind discovers."         -Rodan of Alexandria

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From: yusuf921@news.uidaho.edu (Syed Yusuf)
Subject: Re: FICS [was "---SCAM WARNING---"]
Date: 1997/07/31
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