Talk:Internet chess server
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[edit] Mixed up article
This is one mixed up article. Most of the Internet Chess Club stuff duplicates that in that article. I am proposing to strip this down to be a neutral, more general article on chess servers. BlueValour 01:47, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Several comments
- I agree completely with BlueValour
- I redirected "online chess" to this page since this article pretty much describes it.
- Perhaps the division interface servers (old-school such as ICC, FICS, chess.net,etc) and java servers (yahoo, etc) should be made clearer.
- I think Playchess should have its own article, rather than redirect to chessbase.
- How about a comparison chart on the different servers?
Voorlandt 12:21, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Notable chess servers
I have removed:
- Chess.net
- Kurnik
neither is as notable as the others listed. Chess.net has no article and the Kurnik article doesn't even mention chess! BlueValour 18:50, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
Reply: Kurnik is listed as a chess server in the article on chess, that is why I thought I list it here. It has around 1500 players online at any given time, which makes it larger than FICS. Voorlandt 19:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
As a footnote: there used to be a multiplayer game called "Chessweb" which was supposed to be a community effort, you took a color and played the best move as you saw it. There was a lot of banter associated with each game and it was more social than playing "serious" chess. The drawback was that some people took it too seriously. It was a feature of the server that weaker players might reverse a position by playing a weaker move- but it sometimes caused argument and I suppose the creator got fed up with being umpire and resetting positions and stopped it.
