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Bored playing chess with your computer? Have trouble finding someone to play against? Ever wished you could play rated games with time controls? Now you can play real people anytime, with any kind of time controls, rated or unrated, and the best part is it's FREE.
Since resuming regular play after a short absence, I've been in a terrible slump. Here's my FICS stats as of 11/14/97:
rating RD win loss draw total best
Blitz 1418 36.2 205 231 29 465 1641 (01-Jul-97)
Standard 1511 150.3 3 7 1 11
Lightning 1539 262.8 0 1 0 1
Wild ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0
Bughouse ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0
Suicide ---- 350.0 0 0 0 0
Total time on-line: 7 days, 10 hours, 34 minutes and 0 seconds
% of life on-line: 3.0 (since Fri Mar 14, 20:45 CST 1997)
Realizing that it's probably easier to write a chess program that plays chess really good than to become really good at chess myself, I've taken up a new project: writing my own chess program. This way please to my Chess Program page.