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Just a few years ago, it was imaginable to play chess real time with somebody on the other side of the Globe. Now it is pretty easy, long live Internet! I spend a lot of my time online playing chess, so I thought I should give a quick instruction to those who might want to combine the beauty of Chess and Internet. There are many sites where people can play chess online, I think I tried them all, but FICS (Free Internet Chess Server) is the only one I would really recommend. FICS is a free, (and advertisement free!) chess place great to spend (or waste?) your time chess-playing and chatting with other people! All you need is an interface program to connect to the server. An alternative to an interface program is JavaBoard, available at the FICS website, but it lacks many features and I wouldn't recommend it. On the other hand I like two programs, WinBoard and BabasChess. There are many others, but I cannot recommend them, as I have never used them. I've been using WinBoard since 1999, it is a simple and easy to use program, but it hasn't been updated for a quite some time now and it lacks many features found in more recently developed programs. I discovered BabasChess a few weeks ago and was positively surprised. I would especially recommend it to those who are just starting using FICS, since it has many server commands built-in.
Once you connect to the FICS server, feel free to challenge me, my handle is "sofy". See you there!
:: Sasha, at 09:54 pm on Friday, 23. April 2004
i just want to play chess
:: Richard Barclay, at 08:58 pm on Tuesday, 25. January 2005
come on we wnat ot find a spot to play chess noone can figure how to let us play with them. LET ME PLAY
:: michelle & kayla, at 02:15 am on Monday, 04. April 2005
have any body want play chess with me?
:: al-falah, at 08:36 am on Tuesday, 28. March 2006
please!!!!
:: al-falah, at 08:41 am on Tuesday, 28. March 2006
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