William R. Shauck Oct 31 1993, 10:21 am show options Newsgroups: rec.games.chess, rec.answers, news.answers Followup-To: poster From: sha...@netcom.com (William R. Shauck) - Find messages by this author Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1993 18:15:24 GMT Local: Sun, Oct 31 1993 10:15 am Subject: rec.games.chess Answers to Frequently Asked Questions [2/2] Reply to Author | Forward | Print | Individual Message | Show original | Report Abuse Last-Modified: 1993/10/15 Archive-Name: games/chess/part2 Publicly available playing, e-mail lists, or material [17] E-Mail Games, ICS, Mailing Lists, Gopher, Usenet Reader [18] Material Available via Anonymous FTP Commercially available playing or material [19] Chess-Playing Computers [20] Chess-Playing Software [21] Database Software [22] Utility Software Miscellaneous [23] Using Graphic Chess Symbols in Printed Text [24] Trivia [25] Common Acronyms [26] Rules [27] Variants [28] Disclaimer and Copyright Notice This FAQ list may be obtained via anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu under /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/chess/part2. Or, send email to mail-ser...@rtfm.mit.edu with 'send usenet/news.answers/games/chess/part2' in the body of the message, leaving the subject line empty. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: [17] E-Mail Games, ICS, Mailing Lists, Gopher, Usenet reader Rob Buchner (rain...@cbnewsc.cb.att.com) organizes e-mail games on "ladders." If you would like to be included on the ladder, simply send him a message. Contacting potential opponents and setting up matches is your initiative. Just let him know whenever a match starts or ends. Also, after a game has been completed, include the following information: white score black completed moves opening ***** ***** ***** ********* ***** ******* name ?:? name date number type Ladder updates are posted to rec.games.chess about once a month. The Internet Chess Server (ICS) was originally developed by Michael Moore (mmo...@dsd.es.com). ICS allows interactive chess games for those with Internet telnet capability. Use telnet (e.g., "telnet testbed.panix.com 5000") to connect. All may log on and play chess, but if you wish to have your games recorded and develop a rating, register on the system you use (see help on the system for more information). Send questions to t...@daimi.aau.dk or d...@daimi.aau.dk. There are currently two IC Servers running: testbed.panix.com 5000 bentley.daimi.aau.dk (130.225.16.62) 5000 (Aarhus, Denmark) (if 5000 doesn't work, try 5001 or 5002) ICS only displays ASCII boards. For graphical interfaces for X, NeXT, MacOS or MS-DOS, see [18] (Miscellaneous) for an associated FTP server. Michael Nolan has set up a mailing list "echo" of the rec.games.chess news group. Messages sent to the list will be posted in rec.games.chess, and all posts to rec.games.chess will be sent to the mailing list. The address to send messages to be posted to rec.games.chess is: chessn...@tssi.com (UUCP: tssi!chessnews) The mailing list administration address is: chessnews-requ...@tssi.com (UUCP: tssi@chessnews-request) Requests to be added to the mailing list should include a clear indication of the e-mail address to be used, and will be verified before being accepted. There is a mailing list which is not associated with rec.games.chess called "chess-l." It averages about 4 posts/day, which are sent to subscribers via e-mail. To subscribe to the chess-l news group, send the message "subscribe chess-l Your-Real-Name-Here" to lists...@grearn.bitnet. A mailing list for those interested in scholastic chess has been set up by Kenneth Sloan (s...@cis.uab.edu). Send a request to be added to the list to scholastic-chess-requ...@cis.uab.edu. Gopher is "a document delivery service"; sort of a stripped-down menu-driven FTP. Those with access to a gopher client can access kasey.umkc.edu for chess-related material. For those on the Internet whose sites do not receive rec.games.chess, it can be read (along with all other Usenet groups) from an experimental bulletin board system (EBBS) run by the University of North Carolina. The Internet address for EBBS is launchpad.unc.edu (152.2.22.80). A news reader (read-only) is available to all users, but posting is limited to those who have been verified by land mail. Internet e-mail privileges are also available to verified users. All access to this system is free at this time. There is a Special Interest Group (SIG) on a pool of computers: the Free-Net System at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Try "telnet freenet-in-[a,b,c].cwru.edu" (replace "[a,b,c]" with one of a, b or c). Login as a visitor and explore the system. Try "go chess" to find local chess bulletin boards and an e-mail chess group. Request membership at x...@cleveland.freenet.edu [The Cleveland Chess Sig (FNCF), 4382 Tiedeman Rd., Brooklyn, Ohio 44144]. There is a FidoNet conference for chess which offers games by e-mail. Contact the moderator of the CHESS conference: Rita Goudreau @ 1:167/133. (Internet equivalent: rita.goudr...@f133.n167.z1.fidonet.org). ------------------------------