Originally posted by heinzkatI like that feature.
Another thing, always when you play a game, the game comments are shown in the language of the other user. So a draw offer is denoted as "nulle" or "remis" or whatever and time as temps turkye hebrew signs and Russian letters and all that stuff like claiming win on disconnect. Can't they just get it right?
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Originally posted by sonhouseJust went there and the cube's working fine.Currently 2600 players online with 721 games ongoing.
I just now tried to make a new account on chesscube just to check them out and got an error message 'this service is no longer available', not a good sign. Scratch another site.
Originally posted by AjuinIt won't let me log in either 😠
Just went there and the cube's working fine.Currently 2600 players online with 721 games ongoing.
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edit: that was due to stupidity, my username isn't heinzkat there 😛😛
Originally posted by clandarkfire90% of my ICC use is for the videos. If ICC charged 10 or 20 dollars a month just for videos, I would not think that unreasonable. Combine that with chances for instruction by strong players, a playing server, and a 100 game library, and it's easy to see that ICC is well worth the money many times over.
No, ICC has lots of weakish players. Personally, I think it's a great site, and I would definatly recommend it. You will also find that all the videos that are released each week are well worth the membership.
Almost started a new thread ...
Thinking of renewing ICC
I have 6 days to decide. 🙁
The videos are nice, but I have learned more from going through them myself. In fact, I messaged one of the GM's on Chorus because he had a 5 move analysis, and the last move was a blunder (Qe2, instead of the two correct queen moves that won). I got no reply whatsoever.
The best feature about ICC is the competition. I've only met 3 or 4 players over 2300 at FICS. At ICC, there is a huge group of very strong players. Also, there are considerably less engine users at ICC. I have only run into 3 users in 6 months, as opposed to 1-3 a day at FICS.
The 1, 5, and 15 feature is also nice. They pair you as they would a regular tournament (cant hand pick opponent or pick on a little guy until you take all his points).
I haven't had a chance yet, but I also see that they have some nice tournaments (including extension tournaments). That's a little scary though because I caught a cheat from casually looking at his games from one of those tournaments.
All in all, I do think it's worth the money (6 months $40/ slightly over 25 cents a day).
The problem is that I haven't been playing very much, preferring study to play.
I'd say it's rates about like this site. It's very nice, and you should probably just pay the money if you can afford it.
I joined ICC last month and love it. I play in FICS every now and then as well. I seem to do better at FICS in terms of wins. It may just be coincidence or simply that the ICC has tougher players on average.
Love the videos.
I'm not too bothered about the GM thing simply because my level is so far below theirs I don't stand to learn as much as I would say from a strong club player. GM brains just blast my tiny mind out of the water really.
Sign up for it. I did.