Long Distance Chess
Rob Combs
Here’s my situation:
I live in DC and I have a friend in Florida who I would like to start
playing chess with. He has a mac and he is on AOL. I have a PC and I
have a SLIP/PPP connection. I have looked around the Net for a chess
interface that is Mac/PC compatible but have had no luck. I know of
Java based apps but my Internet Service Provider blinks out a couple of
times a day. I fear that this would screw up our game while I
reconnect. I’m not sure but I believe that AOL is a problem of it’s
own.
I have Chessmaster Live Chess (it’s free and it’s great!) except they
don’t make a Mac version.
Does anyone out there have any suggestions for me? I would really
appreciate any help that could be offered.
Thanks,
Rob
Komputer Korner
Komputer Korner's Different ways to play chess interactively in cyberspace
- version 21
1) Telnet sites
Chess servers using a version of FICS
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Main sites maintained by group of admins:
AICS: chess.onenet.net 5000 (164.58.253.13 5000) Main US server
fics.onenet.net 5000
EICS: eics.daimi.aau.dk 5000 (130.225.18.157 5000) Main EURO
server
Other national sites:
BICS: crocus.warwick.ac.uk 5000 (137.205.192.13 5000) British
CrICS: fly.cc.fer.hr 7890 (161.53.70.130 7890) Croatian
DICS: dics.dds.nl 5000 (194.109.20.8 5000) Dutch
FrICS: chess.eerie.fr 5000 (146.19.2.4 5000) France
GICS: chess.unix-ag.uni-kl.de 5000 (131.246.89.4 5000) Germany
MaxICS: callisto.si.usherb.ca 5000 Canada
MICS: wisdom.weizmann.ac.il 5000 (132.76.80.77 5000) Mid-east server
UCHICS: cipres.cec.uchile.cl 5000 (146.83.5.130 5000) Chile
ZICS: ics.interdomain.net.au 5000 (203.17.167.4 5000) Australia
mezquite.iico.uaslp.mx 5000 (148.224.6.99 5000) Mexico
fics.infcom.it 5000 Italy
cygnus.csa.iisc.ernet.in 5000 (144.16.67.53 5000) India
Alternative sites:
getnet.com 4000 (204.157.9.29 4000) Phoenix, AZ, US
gsi.gsini.net 5000 (206.20.43.1 5000) Rockaway, NJ,
US
rogue.coe.ohio-state.edu 5000 (128.146.144.12 5000) Columbus, OH,
US
Internet Chess Club (commercial chess server):
chessclub.com 5000 (208.196.3.66 5000) Pittsburgh, PA,
US
2) Email web sites
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/britain/
http://www.newgalaxy.com/cyberchess/
3) Sites where the URL refreshes after every move like
http://pi1.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/HomePages/trampler/WCS/wcs.html
http://www.caissa.com/
4) Proprietary but free downloadable software sites that don't require a
browser at Chessmaster Network at
http://www.chessmasternetwork.com/
or ROBOMAN software at http://www.chess.net/
5) Java sites like Chess Live at http://oasi.shiny.it/chess/
and GM Technologies http://www.grandmaster.bc.ca/
and ChessD http://www.chessed.com/
and Ichess http://www.ichess.com/
and Playsite http://www.playsite.com/mainsite/
6) CM5000 modem to modem
7) IRC chess via the IRC chess Channel send an email to ar...@peaknet.net
for a shareware program for it.
8) Direct telnet from one player to the
otherftp://ftp.winsite.com/pub/pc/win3/winsock/wschesb1.zip
9) Power Chess through http://www.sierra.com
10) Play against a computer sites like
http://figaro.ae.katowice.pl/~mily/chess.html
11) Proprietary but free downloadable interface software sites that require
Internet Explorer 3.0 like The Internet Gaming Zone at
http://igz2.microsoft.com
12) Direct TCP-IP connection via Corel Chess and also Internet Chess at
http://www.iceinternet.com/wilsonk/chess.htm
13) MSDOS interface program that requires a shell account (not TCP/IP, SLIP
or PPP), that will work under Windows in the MSDOS box and will work only
on the ICC and FICS servers.
ZIICS interface available at ftp://ftp.lm.com/pub/icc/interface/DOS/
14) Multiple process sites like GNU Web Chess
http://www.delorie.com/game-room/chess/
where you can choose between a) Java b) individual icons c) unified single
board image
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