Newsgroups: rec.games.chess.misc Path: info!dregis From: dregis@exeter.ac.uk (D.Regis) Subject: Re: FICS vs. ICC Message-ID: Organization: University of Exeter, UK. References: <01bc0983$6ad15240$13f7cd80@acsu.buffalo.edu> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 09:25:56 GMT In article jzs@europa.com (Justin Smith) writes: >In article <01bc0983$6ad15240$13f7cd80@acsu.buffalo.edu>, >cdmoyer@acsu.buffalo.edu wrote: > >:)~Is it worth payinc to join ICC, or is FICS just as good? Any opinions? > > >Definitly join ICC. It is worth your money. Why? In my limited experience of it, it was very laggy, from the UK at least. On FICS, people seem more sympathetic to genuine lag problems. On ICC, I had more than one game like the following: (CharmlessNurk) (2141) vs. (Myself) (1929) [Rated blitz match, initial time: 3 minutes, increment: 10 seconds] 1. d4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 {Black forfeits on time} 1-0 It was no encouragement to subscribe. Anyone else from the UK have these problems? -- May your pieces harmonise with your Pawn structure and your sacrifices be sound in all variations D _ / "()/~ Dave Regis &8^D* Exeter Chess Coaching Page etc.: || \_/| = DrDave on BICS http://www.ex.ac.uk/~dregis/DR/chess.html ~\ / "...what else exists in the world but chess?" _|||__SHEU ~/sheu.html -- NABOKOV "Contribute!" -- Doug Attig From info!dregis Mon Jan 27 14:45:54 GMT 1997 Article: 99154 of soc.bi