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Date: 26 Nov 2006 20:01:10
From: Michael Vondung
Subject: Is FICS down or gone?
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Been quite a while since I felt the desire to play online. I noticed that
http://www.freechess.org/ times out. Is FICS temporarily down or completely
gone?
M.
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Date: 27 Nov 2006 09:49:29
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Is FICS down or gone?
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Michael Vondung <[email protected] > wrote:
> Been quite a while since I felt the desire to play online. I noticed
> that http://www.freechess.org/ times out. Is FICS temporarily down
> or completely gone?
No and no, respectively, as people have said about a hundred times
here. The webserver has been down for a depressingly long time (about
two months now, IIRC) but the chess server is still up and running.
You can connect to FICS by downloading an interface, such as
BabasChess (http://www.babaschess.net/).
Dave.
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Date: 27 Nov 2006 14:24:00
From: Thomas T. Veldhouse
Subject: Re: Is FICS down or gone?
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David Richerby <[email protected] > wrote:
> Michael Vondung <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Been quite a while since I felt the desire to play online. I noticed
>> that http://www.freechess.org/ times out. Is FICS temporarily down
>> or completely gone?
>
> No and no, respectively, as people have said about a hundred times
> here. The webserver has been down for a depressingly long time (about
> two months now, IIRC) but the chess server is still up and running.
>
> You can connect to FICS by downloading an interface, such as
> BabasChess (http://www.babaschess.net/).
>
So what is the reason for not getting the website running? I still wonder
about the FICS future if they are having such fundamental issues [most likely
related to funding].
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Thomas T. Veldhouse
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Date: 27 Nov 2006 17:33:06
From: David Richerby
Subject: Re: Is FICS down or gone?
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Thomas T. Veldhouse <[email protected] > wrote:
> So what is the reason for not getting the website running?
No idea. If it was me, I'd have set up a small webserver on the game
server that just displayed a message saying, ``The web server is down
but you can still connect using an interface'' and then maybe links to
the most popular interfaces. That would have stopped lots of people
believing that FICS was dead, at least.
Dave.
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Date: 27 Nov 2006 18:56:03
From: Michael Vondung
Subject: Re: Is FICS down or gone?
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On 27 Nov 2006 17:33:06 +0000 (GMT), David Richerby wrote:
> That would have stopped lots of people
> believing that FICS was dead, at least.
There are probably plenty of people who would host it, too -- or host even
the "real" site, if it's a matter of insufficient funds. The trouble is
also that you can't register a new account. Yes, you can play as a guest,
but that's not quite the same.
Anyway, I remembered that I got a year of free access to
playchess.com/schach.de with Fritz 10, so I spent some time there today
(watched the Kramnik/Fritz game ... still having trouble to believe he
didn't see the mate-in-one!). I sort of prefer BabaChess, though.
M.
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