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Article #3402Re: FICS [was "---SCAM WARNING---"]
From: Kenneth P. Turvey
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 00:00
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On Sat, 02 Aug 1997 20:19:36 -0500, Dave Tukey wrote: >Scott Bogert wrote: >[snip of other quoted material] > >> i don't know if i had the right place, but i decided to check out the >> FICS and what i saw was a joke. isn't there an actual chess board (not >> just a bunch of ASCII characters), and how does one move the pieces? >> people actually play blitz on this?! >> >> and by the way it's ICC (or as it used to be called AICS) > >I'm curious. How did you log on, and to which site? From th esound of >it, it seem sthat you did not use a GUI which is quite useful for moving >pieces via a mouse. And were you on FICS or ICC? > > Dave I don't think he understands quite how it works. Scott, you need to look at winboard or amyboard or xboard. I use xboard, and everything works great with a GUI. I haven't had time to play in a while. I am looking forward to playing a few games over the next couple of weeks. -- Ken Turvey <kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com>
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 110df2,f51e90f16d7fc306 X-Google-Attributes: gid110df2,public X-Google-Thread: 1035ff,f51e90f16d7fc306 X-Google-Attributes: gid1035ff,public X-Google-Thread: 1502a1,f51e90f16d7fc306 X-Google-Attributes: gid1502a1,public X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,f51e90f16d7fc306 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public X-Google-Thread: 100b20,f51e90f16d7fc306 X-Google-Attributes: gid100b20,public From: kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com (Kenneth P. Turvey) Subject: Re: FICS [was "---SCAM WARNING---"] Date: 1997/08/03 Message-ID: <slrn5u8hu5.jrv.kturvey@pug1.sprocketshop.com> X-Deja-AN: 261968985 References: <01bc8e3d$efde3e00$b8933dcf@charmaine> <01bc9606$3e4041e0$a3f12399@service-ace> <33D77296.1D49304F@txdirect.net> <5r8e9i$r3r$1@steve.prima.ruhr.de> <5rel4c$aoa$1@newshound.csrv.uidaho.edu> <33DDD73E.51BB@odin.cmp.ilstu.edu> <33DE9D39.50249266@ibm.net> <5rqtem$hrm$2@newshound.csrv.uidaho.edu> <33E2BE50.2B01A73A@ibm.net> <33E3DC9D.6CFD@odin.cmp.ilstu.edu> Organization: No. Newsgroups: gnu.chess,pdax.games.chess,alt.chess.ics,rec.games.chess.analysis,rec.games.chess.computer