Be Well
Ron Cherubino
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From: harp-errors@cayenne.lcs.mit.edu on behalf of Daniel Sleator
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 1996 7:33 PM
To: Kingston
Subject: ICC Services
(Your password has been sent in another email message).
In addition to the basic ICC features of playing games, watching games, and
communicating with players and friends worldwide, the ICC provides a wide
range of features and exciting chess events for its members! Altogether,
ICC is a tremendous value for one low yearly membership fee.
FEATURES:
- anti-lag timestamping of moves (never get "lag-flagged" again!)
- histories of past 20 games for every player, available for emailing,
examining, discussing with friends
- personal libraries of up to 40 games you can save and show to friends
on-line
- on-line database of over 60,000 ICC master games available nowhere else.
You can search by player, opening, and other parameters. You can examine
online or email to yourself.
- ECO opening identification system
- match formulas to specify the kind of games and opponents you want to play
- emailing games in PGN format
- auto-notification of friend's arrival, departure, and game playing
- time-odds games, and material-odds games. Many types of chess variants
("wild chess")
- bughouse!
- Kriegspiel!
- many discussion groups (channels) for a wide variety of chess and non-chess
topics
EVENTS and MEMBERS:
- many strong players (Grandmasters and International Masters you can watch)
- world-wide large attendance, 24 hours a day
- Tomato tournaments
- Weekly Play the Master nights
- Weekly International Master Simuls!
- Weekly Official WBCA Tournaments
- LIVE Broadcasts, including World Championships (Kasparov-Anand), US
Championships, Harvard Cup, Holland-Israel GM Match, etc.
- Grandmaster-Grandmaster matches, Grandmaster-Computer matches.
- Lectures and Lessons, several every month.
- Read "help event-all" for a complete list of events that have been held!
You will see we have many every week!
- A professional staff to maintain a well-run Club and provide top-quality
features, events, and services.
Type "help reg" for a list of advantages to being a registered member of ICC,
compared with being unregistered.
There will be many more improvements suggested by ICC members that will
continue to maintain the ICC as the most exciting place for chess players
in the world.
-- The Internet Chess Club