wrote:
Thanks, Ralf! I'm afraid I don't know how to use the telnet server,
but I'll take your word for it. I'm just glad to know that they are
not irretrievably down. They do a great service to the Chess
community, in my humble opinion.

OK, the web server's down. Go to

http://www.babaschess.net/

and download their program. It's supposed to be easy to use and
should, as I recall, let you connect to FICS without needing any
configuration. If it does need configuration, the server name is
`freechess.org' (with *no* www) and the pot number is 5000.

Then you can play to your heart's content!


Dave.

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