chess on the web question
 

Where can you play blitz games for free and earn a rating. Everywhere I checked is either free but doesn't have a rating system or costs loot for a premium membership.

Thanks for any info. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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lots of places
iwin.com
yahoo
pogo
etc
the rating is worthless, so theres no point
theres places with better servers that you can play unrated for free, others can elaborate

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Thanks.

The rating is just for me to see if any improvement is taking place.

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babaschess

tough games tho

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FICS is by far your best option.

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FICS is by far your best option.

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Thanks David! Thats perfect.

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Judging by the population of Grandmasters, chess.net. You can watch GMs and IMs play blitz 24 hours a day. They also have live silumcasts where you can sweat the biggest games with other interested people, which usually includes at least one IM.

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Judging by the population of Grandmasters, chess.net. You can watch GMs and IMs play blitz 24 hours a day. They also have live silumcasts where you can sweat the biggest games with other interested people, which usually includes at least one IM.

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as a former chess.net admin...

ICC [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Not to hijack, but chess players, if you're interested in starting to play competitive chess and get much better, what paysite should you play at that's considered the best?

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Judging by the population of Grandmasters, chess.net. You can watch GMs and IMs play blitz 24 hours a day. They also have live silumcasts where you can sweat the biggest games with other interested people, which usually includes at least one IM.

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as a former chess.net admin...

ICC [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Youre right, it's been so long I mixed them up. ICC is way better.

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I have to say, FICS is very good site. Free to play. Rated games. I watched a lecture earlier that was free. They have a free video lecture that I didn't click on but Im sure there are others.

Plus I watched a GM play an IM.

Im happy with FICS.

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suck it up and pay for ICC!!!

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babaschess

tough games tho

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I downloaded babaschess to play on the FICS server. Babas must be some sort of an overlay type program that works with other chess servers as well. Maybe Im wrong.

I really like the babaschess look.

Im checkmateNY if anyone wants to play. Im rated 900 so bring your "A" game. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

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ICC is popular. I play on Playchess, which is wonderful in my opinion. Live streaming commentary by Yasser Seriawan cannot be beat. It's free for me, but I think that's a result of a glitch with Fritz 8.

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ok so im playing on fics right now
i cant figure out how to offer rematch?
i cant figure out why when the opponents time runs out the game keeps going?

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ok so im playing on fics right now
i cant figure out how to offer rematch?
i cant figure out why when the opponents time runs out the game keeps going?

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Try using the babaschess client

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ok so im playing on fics right now
i cant figure out how to offer rematch?
i cant figure out why when the opponents time runs out the game keeps going?

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Try using the babaschess client

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It does work mint!

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scott, type

rematch
set autoflag on

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scott, type

rematch
set autoflag on

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im trying to get back to the server i was on yesterday that i couldnt do the rematches, now i cant even get on there
it keeps sending me to the "jin" website.
wtf?

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suck it up and pay for ICC!!!

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ICC is rigged. Just accept that I pwned you for a draw once on FICS and that's why you quit.